Portraits of spiritual authority : religious power in early Christianity, Byzantium, and the Christian Orient /

Portraits of spiritual authority : religious power in early Christianity, Byzantium, and the Christian Orient /

This volume deals with several figures of spiritual authority in Christianity during late antiquity and the early middle ages, and seeks to illuminate the way in which the struggle for religious influence evolved with changes in church and society. A number of literary portraits are examined, portra...

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Other Authors: Drijvers, Jan Willem., Watt, J. W.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill. c1999.

Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 137.
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, ISBN: 9789004299672.

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Authority > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600 > Congresses.

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Call Number: BT88 .P67 1999

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material /
  • Jan Willem Drijvers and John W. Watt
  • REWRITING EARLY CHRISTIAN HISTORY; AUGUSTINE'S REPRESENTATION OF MONICA /
  • ELIZABETH A. CLARK
  • MAGI AND VISIONARIES IN GNOSTICISM /
  • ALASTAIR H.B. LOGAN
  • SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY AND THE "HERETICAL" WOMAN: FIRMILIAN'S WORD TO THE CHURCH IN CARTHAGE /
  • CHRISTINE TREVETT
  • TROUBLED BREASTS: THE HOLY BODY IN HAGIOGRAPHY /
  • ROWAN WILLIAMS
  • PROMOTING JERUSALEM: CYRIL AND THE TRUE CROSS /
  • JAN WILLEM DRIJVERS
  • THE LIFE AND LIVES OF GREGORY THAUMATURGUS /
  • STEPHEN MITCHELL
  • RABBULA, BISHOP OF EDESSA: SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY AND SECULAR POWER /
  • HAN J.W. DRIJVERS
  • A PORTRAIT OF JOHN BAR APHTONIA, FOUNDER OF THE MONASTERY OF QENNESHRE /
  • JOHN W. WATT
  • BABAI THE GREAT'S LIFE OF GEORGE AND THE PROPAGATION OF DOCTRINE IN THE LATE SASANIAN EMPIRE /
  • GERRIT J. REININK
  • SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY AND MONASTICISM IN CONSTANTINOPLE DURING THE DARK AGES (650-800) /
  • PETER HATLIE
  • INDEX /
  • Jan Willem Drijvers and John W. Watt
  • RELIGIONS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD /
  • Jan Willem Drijvers and John W. Watt.