Christianity, philosophy, and Roman power: Constantine, Julian, and the bishops on exegesis and empire
This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the r...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Greek culture in the Roman world
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| Further subjects: | B
Church History
Political aspects Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
B Julian Emperor of Rome (331-363) Religion B Church and state (Rome) B Education and state (Rome) B Church and education (Rome) B Hermeneutics Religious aspects Christianity B Rome Civilization Greek influences B Rome Politics and government 284-476 B Rome Religion |
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| Summary: | This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the rise and consolidation of a Christian politics of interpretation that relied on exegesis as a self-legitimising device to secure control over Roman history via claims to Christianity's control of paideia. This reconstruction infuses Julian's reaction with contextual significance. His literary and political project emerges as a response to contemporary reconfigurations of Christian hermeneutics as controlling the meaning of Rome's culture and history. At the same time, understanding Julian as a participant in a larger debate re-qualifies all fourth-century political and episcopal discourse as a long knock-on effect reacting to the imperial mobilisation of Christian debates over the link between power and culture. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2023) |
| ISBN: | 100929931X |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781009299312 |