TY  - GEN
T1  - Holy bishops in late antiquity : the nature of Christian leadership in an age of transition
T2  - Transformation of the classical heritage ;
A1  - Rapp, Claudia
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2005
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm58728603
AB  - 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
CN  - BR166 .R36 2005eb
SN  - 9780520931411
SN  - 0520931416
SN  - 1417585137
SN  - 9781417585137
SN  - 1597346578
SN  - 9781597346573
SN  - 9780520242968
SN  - 0520242963
SN  - 128235759X
SN  - 9781282357594
KW  - Bishops : Rome.
KW  - Church history : Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
KW  - Évêques : Rome.
KW  - Église : Histoire : ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
KW  - RELIGION : Christian Church : Leadership.
KW  - RELIGION : Leadership.
KW  - RELIGION : Antiquities & Archaeology.
KW  - Bishops
KW  - Church history : Primitive and early church
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - 30-600
KW  - Electronic book.
ER  -