Crisis of empire [electronic resource] : doctrine and dissent at the end of late antiquity / Phil Booth.
2014
BR162.3 .B66 2014eb
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Crisis of empire [electronic resource] : doctrine and dissent at the end of late antiquity / Phil Booth.
Author
Booth, Phil, 1981-
ISBN
9780520280427 hardcover
9780520956582 electronic book
9780520956582 electronic book
Published
Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (412 pages)
Call Number
BR162.3 .B66 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
270.2
Summary
"This book focuses on the attempts of three ascetics-John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus Confessor-to determine the Church's power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the eastern Roman empire suffered serious reversals in the face of Persian and then Islamic expansion. By asserting visions which reconciled long-standing intellectual tensions between asceticism and Church, these authors established the framework for their subsequent emergence as Constantinople's most vociferous religious critics, their alliance with the Roman popes, and their radical rejection of imperial interference in matters of the faith. Situated within the broader religious currents of the fourth to seventh centuries, this book throws new light on the nature not only of the holy man in late antiquity, but also of the Byzantine Orthodoxy that would emerge in the Middle Ages, and which is still central to the churches of Greece and Eastern Europe"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Transformation of the classical heritage ; 52.
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