Bishops in Flight : Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity
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| Autore: |
Barry Jennifer
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| Titolo: |
Bishops in Flight : Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity
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| Pubblicazione: | Oakland, : University of California Press, 2019 |
| Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019] | |
| ©2019 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 270.2092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Bishops - Rome - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 4th century |
| 5th century | |
| betrayal of community | |
| betrayal of faith | |
| bible | |
| bishops | |
| christianity | |
| church | |
| denial of christ | |
| episcopal leaders | |
| exiles | |
| favored cult | |
| fleeing persecution | |
| god | |
| heretics | |
| phenomenal political instability | |
| purveyors of christian truth | |
| rhetoric of heresy | |
| roman empire | |
| running away | |
| theological discourse | |
| times of persecution | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Athanasius of Alexandria in Flight -- 2. How to Return from Flight -- 3. John Chrysostom in Flight -- 4. To Rehabilitate and Return a Bishop in Flight -- 5. To Condemn a Bishop in Flight -- 6. Remembering Exile -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A free open access ebook is upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were considered cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face, flight meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of faith and community. But by the fourth century, the terms of persecution changed as Christianity became the favored cult of the Roman Empire. Prominent Christians who fled and survived became founders and influencers of Christianity over time. Bishops in Flight examines the various ways these episcopal leaders both appealed to and altered the discourse of Christian flight to defend their status as purveyors of Christian truth, even when their exiles appeared to condemn them. Their stories illuminate how profoundly Christian authors deployed theological discourse and the rhetoric of heresy to respond to the phenomenal political instability of the fourth and fifth centuries. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bishops in Flight |
| ISBN: | 0-520-97180-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996472050503316 |
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