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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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| Col·lecció: | Transformation of the classical heritage ;
37. |
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Taula de continguts:
- Pragmatic authority
- Spiritual authority
- Ascetic authority
- Two unlikely bishops : Synesius of Cyrene and Theodore of Sykeon
- The episcopate : work or honor?
- Social contexts
- Cities
- Empire
- The bishop as a new urban functionary
- Epilogue : holy bishops.