Holy bishops in late antiquity : the nature of Christian leadership in an age of transition /
Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop--as the highest Church official in his city--from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exception...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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| 叢編: | Transformation of the classical heritage ;
37. |
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| 總結: | Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop--as the highest Church official in his city--from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally learned, innovative, and groundbreaking work traces this transition with a twofold aim: to deemphasize the reign of the emperor Constantine, which has traditionally been regarded as a watershed in the development of the Church as an institution, and to bring to the fore the continued importance of the religious underpinnings of the bishop's role as civic leader. Rapp rejects Max Weber's categories of "charismatic" versus "institutional" authority that have traditionally been used to distinguish the nature of episcopal authority from that of the ascetic and holy man. Instead she proposes a model of spiritual authority, ascetic authority and pragmatic authority, in which a bishop's visible asceticism is taken as evidence of his spiritual powers and at the same time provides the justification for his public role. In clear and graceful prose, Rapp provides a wholly fresh analysis of the changing dynamics of social mobility as played out in episcopal appointments |
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| 實物描述: | 1 online resource (1 volume) |
| 參考書目: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520931411 0520931416 1417585137 9781417585137 1597346578 9781597346573 9780520242968 0520242963 128235759X 9781282357594 |