Christianity, empire, and the making of religion in late antiquity
Introduction: identity politics in the later Roman Empire -- Philosophers, apologists, and empire -- Porphyry on Greeks, Christians, and others -- Vera religio and falsae religiones: Lactantius's divine institutes -- What difference does an emperor make? apologetics and imperial ideology in Con...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
c 2008
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Divinations : rereading late ancient religion
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| Schlagworte: | Church history Römisches Reich Christentum Geschichte 30-600 Kirchenväter Spätantike |
| Umfang: | 254 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: identity politics in the later Roman Empire
- Philosophers, apologists, and empire
- Porphyry on Greeks, Christians, and others
- Vera religio and falsae religiones: Lactantius's divine institutes
- What difference does an emperor make? apologetics and imperial ideology in Constantine's Oration to the saints and imperial letters
- From Hebrew wisdom to Christian hegemony: Eusebius of Caesarea's apologetics and panegyrics
- Epilogue: empire's palimpsest
- Appendix: Porphyry's polemics and the great persecution.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-246) and index