Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity.
Title:
Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity.
Author:
Schott, Jeremy M.
ISBN:
9780812203462
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (263 pages)
Series:
Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Identity Politics in the Later Roman Empire -- 1 Philosophers, Apologists, and Empire -- 2 Porphyry on Greeks, Christians, and Others -- 3 Vera Religio and Falsae Religiones: Lactantius's Divine Institutes -- 4 What Difference Does an Emperor Make? Apologetics and Imperial Ideology in Constantine's Oration to the Saints and Imperial Letters -- 5 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 -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early fourth century C.E.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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