| Portraits of Spiritual Authority: Religious Power in Early Christianity, Byzantium and the Christian Orient Contributor(s): Drijvers, Jan Willem (Editor), Watt, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004114599 ISBN-13: 9789004114593 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $155.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 1999 Annotation: 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, portraits which, in various literary genres, are themselves designed to establish and propagate the authority of the people whose lives and activities they describe. The sequence begins with visionary and prophetic figures of the second and third centuries, proceeds through several testimonies from the fourth century to the power of holy persons, moves on to Syriac portraits of the fifth to seventh centuries, and ends with the demise of the authority of the holy man in the eighth. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Ecclesiology - Architecture | Interior Design - General - Religion | History |
| Dewey: 262.809 |
| LCCN: 99045650 |
| Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.54" W x 9.68" (1.30 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, portraits which, in various literary genres, are themselves designed to establish and propagate the authority of the people whose lives and activities they describe. The sequence begins with visionary and prophetic figures of the second and third centuries, proceeds through several testimonies from the fourth century to the power of holy persons, moves on to Syriac portraits of the fifth to seventh centuries, and ends with the demise of the authority of the holy man in the eighth. |