The imperial cult and the development of church order : concepts and images of authority in paganism and early Christianity before the Age of Cyprian /

The imperial cult and the development of church order : concepts and images of authority in paganism and early Christianity before the Age of Cyprian /

Recent studies have re-assessed Emperor worship as a genuinely religious response to the metaphysics of social order. Brent argues that Augustus' revolution represented a genuinely religious reformation of Republican religion that had failed in its metaphysical objectives. Against this backclot...

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Main Author: Brent, Allen.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1999.

Series: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 45.
Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004308961.

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Church polity > History > Early church, approximately 30-600.
Emperor worship > Rome.
Christianity and other religions > Roman.
Christianity.
Church polity.
Emperor worship.
Interfaith relations.
Romans > Religion.
Rome (Empire)
History.

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Call Number: BV648 .B73 1999

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