Chromatius Of Aquileia And The Making Of A Christian City

Author : Robert McEachnie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315410443
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chromatius of Aquileia and the Making of a Christian City written by Robert McEachnie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chromatius of Aquileia and the Making of a Christian City examines how the increasing authority of institutionalized churches changed late antique urban environments. Aquileia, the third largest city in Italy during late antiquity, presents a case study in the transformation of elite Roman practices in relation to the urban environment. Through the archaeological remains, the sermons of the city’s bishop, Chromatius, and the artwork and epigraphic evidence in the sacred buildings, the city and its inhabitants leave insights into a reshaping of the urban environment and its institutions which occurred at the beginning of the 5th century. The words of the bishop attacking heretics and Jews presaged a shift in patronage by rich donors from the city as a whole to only the Christian church. The city, both as an ideal and a physical reality, changed with the growing dominance of the Church, creating a Christian city.

Author : Robert McEachnie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315410435
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chromatius of Aquileia and the Making of a Christian City written by Robert McEachnie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chromatius of Aquileia and the Making of a Christian City examines how the increasing authority of institutionalized churches changed late antique urban environments. Aquileia, the third largest city in Italy during late antiquity, presents a case study in the transformation of elite Roman practices in relation to the urban environment. Through the archaeological remains, the sermons of the city’s bishop, Chromatius, and the artwork and epigraphic evidence in the sacred buildings, the city and its inhabitants leave insights into a reshaping of the urban environment and its institutions which occurred at the beginning of the 5th century. The words of the bishop attacking heretics and Jews presaged a shift in patronage by rich donors from the city as a whole to only the Christian church. The city, both as an ideal and a physical reality, changed with the growing dominance of the Church, creating a Christian city.

Author : Clare K. Rothschild
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161611748
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muratorian Fragment written by Clare K. Rothschild and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an introduction, critical edition, and fresh English translation of the Muratorian Fragment. In addition to addressing questions of authorship, date, provenance, and sources, Clare K. Rothschild carefully analyzes the text's language, composition, genre, and possible functions with reference to a breathtaking range of scholarly positions and findings from the eighteenth century to the present. She also investigates its position within the eclectic eighth-century Muratorian Codex (Ambr. I 101 sup.). A line-by-line philological commentary draws attention to literary, philosophical, and religious aspects of the individual traditions represented. This study should be of interest to scholars of the New Testament and early Christian literature, as well as experts on the emergence of the canon and historians of the Latin Medieval West.

Author : Daniel C. Cochran
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 197870769X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the Body of Christ written by Daniel C. Cochran and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Building the Body of Christ, Daniel C. Cochran argues that monumental Christian art and architecture played a crucial role in the formation of individual and communal identities in late antique Italy. The ecclesiastical buildings and artistic programs that emerged during the fourth and fifth centuries not only reflected Christianity’s changing status within the Roman Empire but also actively shaped those who used them. Emphasizing the importance of materiality and the body in early Christian thought and practice, Cochran shows how bishops and their supporters employed the visual arts to present a Christian identity rooted in the sacred past but expressed in the present through church unity and episcopal authority. He weaves together archaeological and textual evidence to contextualize case studies from Rome, Aquileia, and Ravenna, showing how these sites responded to the diversity of early Christianity as expressed through private rituals and the imperial appropriation of the saints. Cochran shows how these early ecclesiastical buildings and artistic programs worked in conjunction with the liturgy to persuade individuals to adopt alternative beliefs, practices, and values that contributed to the formation of institutional Christianity and the “Christianization” of late antique Italy.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004363564
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preaching in the Patristic Era written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preaching in the Patristic Era. Sermons, Preachers, Audiences in the Latin West offers an introduction to the field of Latin patristic preaching with attention both to general topics and individual preachers and collections of sermons.

Author : Catherine Michael Chin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520400682
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life written by Catherine Michael Chin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life immerses the reader in the cosmic sea of alivenesses that made up the late ancient Mediterranean world. It weaves together the philosophical, religious, sensory, and scientific worlds of the later Roman Empire to tell the story of how human lives were lived under different natural laws than those we now know. Loosely structured around events in the biography of one early Christian writer and traveller, Life gives us a vivid and intimate glimpse of how ancient lifetimes unfolded under the sway of cosmic and spiritual forces that the modern world has forgotten"--

Author : Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107195365
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity written by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshalling previously untapped Christian materials, Bar-Asher Siegal offers radically new insights into Talmudic stories about Scriptural debates with Christian heretics.

Author : Robert McEachnie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Christian Community written by Robert McEachnie and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He contrasted the Jewish community with barbarians so as to redraw a traditional definition of Roman identity on Christian/Jewish rather than civilized/barbarian lines. The results were an isolation of Judaism as an essentialized ethnicity. Finally, Chromatius framed Christianity as an heir to Roman views of virtue and vice. He posited Christian virtues as the solution to the vices of excess ... avarice, luxury and ambition ... which had been deemed responsible for the downfall of the Roman Republic. Chromatius fashioned an argument about virtues which was aimed at elite women in particular. Their conversion to his form of Christianity, one centered in the basilica instead of a house, presented the church new wealth and power. The sermons, when read within the local context, reveal a project of Christianization designed to construct Nicene Christianity as the only legitimate center of the cosmopolitan city.

Author : Eric C. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315474719
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Glass and Christian Stone written by Eric C. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years scholars have re-evaluated the "parting of the ways" between Judaism and Christianity, reaching new understandings of the ways shared origins gave way to two distinct and sometimes inimical religious traditions. But this has been a profoundly textual task, relying on the writings of rabbis, bishops, and other text-producing elites to map the terrain of the "parting." This book takes up the question of the divergence of Judaism and Christianity in terms of material--the stuff made, used, and left behind by the persons that lived in and between these religions as they were developing. Considering the glass, clay, stone, paint, vellum, and papyrus of ancient Jews and Christians, this book maps the "parting" in new ways, and argues for a greater role for material and materialism in our reconstructions of the past.

Author : M. David Litwa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000606082
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes written by M. David Litwa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes is the definitive study of the early Christian theologian Carpocrates, his son Epiphanes, and the leader of the Carpocratian movement in Rome, Marcellina. It contains the first full-length study of and commentary on the fragments of Epiphanes, the earliest reports on Carpocrates and Marcellina, as well as the Epistle to Theodore (containing the so-called Secret Gospel of Mark). Readers also encounter an up-to-date history of research on the Carpocratian movement, and three full profiles of all we can know from the earliest Carpocratian leaders. Written in an accessible style, but based on the most careful historical and linguistic research, this volume is a landmark, helping to redefine the field of early Christian history. Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes is a welcome addition to the libraries of all students of early Christian theology, researchers investigating early Christian diversity, and scholars of Gnostic, Nag Hammadi and related materials.