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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809241503321

Autore

Booth Phil <1981->

Titolo

Crisis of empire : doctrine and dissent at the end of late antiquity / / Phil Booth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-520-29619-2

0-520-95658-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 p.)

Collana

Transformation of the classical heritage ; ; LII

Classificazione

HIS002000REL070000

Disciplina

270.2

Soggetti

Church history - 7th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Toward the Sacramental Saint -- 2. Sophronius and the Miracles -- 3. Moschus and the Meadow -- 4. Maximus and the Mystagogy -- 5. The Making of the Monenergist Crisis -- 6. Jerusalem and Rome at the Dawn of the Caliphate -- 7. Rebellion and Retribution -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"This book focuses on the attempts of three ascetics-John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus Confessor-to determine the Church's power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the eastern Roman empire suffered serious reversals in the face of Persian and then Islamic expansion. By asserting visions which reconciled long-standing intellectual tensions between asceticism and Church,  these authors established the framework for their subsequent emergence as Constantinople's most vociferous religious critics, their alliance with the Roman popes, and their radical rejection of imperial interference in matters of the faith. Situated within the broader religious currents of the fourth to seventh centuries, this book throws new light on the nature not only of the holy man in late antiquity, but also  of the Byzantine Orthodoxy that would emerge in the Middle Ages, and which is still central to the churches of Greece and Eastern Europe"--