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Christianity, empire, and the making of religion in late antiquity
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Christianity, empire, and the making of religion in late antiquity / Jeremy M. Schott.
ISBN
9780812240924 (alk. paper)
0812240928 (alk. paper)
Published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
Physical Description
254 p. ; 24 cm.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 11, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-246) and index.
Contents
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.
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