Christianity and the rhetoric of empire : the development of Christian discourse /

Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christianity in late antiquity and its flourishing in the medieval world. In asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, Averil Cameron turns to the development of Christian discou...

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Tác giả chính: Cameron, Averil
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1991.
Loạt:Sather classical lectures ; v. 55.
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Mục lục:
  • How many rhetorics?
  • Showing and telling
  • Stories people want
  • The power over the past
  • The rhetoric of paradox
  • Toward a new representation
  • Envoi.