Author: Hamilton Hess
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198269755
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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When first published in 1958, this text became the standard account of the canons passed by the Western bishops assembled at Serdica in 343 and the thinking on Church matters that lay behind them. This edition adds further material and research tools.
Author: Hamilton Hess
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Category : Bishops (Canon law).
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Author: Henry Robert Percival
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Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Author: Henry Robert Percival
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Author: Philip Schaff
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Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Author: Philip Schaff
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Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Author: Clarence Gallagher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351951580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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This book presents a comparative study of church order in the East and West of the Christian world. It deals with the development of canon law from the 6th century, the time of Dionysius Exiguus and John Scholastikos, up to the period of Balsamon and Gratian. While the focus is upon Rome and Constantinople, the author includes in his discussion the churches under Islamic rule, in Syria and Persia, and describes the beginnings of Slavonic canon law in Moravia. The issues of church government, the discipline of the clergy (married or celibate), and the question of divorce and re-marriage are key themes. By illustrating how these were faced in the canon law of the Christian churches of late antiquity and the earlier Middle Ages, the book highlights questions of unity and diversity within the Christian tradition.
Author: David S. Potter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134694849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a new polity with two capitals and a new religion—Christianity. The book integrates social and intellectual history into the narrative, looking to explore the relationship between contingent events and deeper structure. It also covers an amazingly dramatic narrative from the civil wars after the death of Commodus through the conversion of Constantine to the arrival of the Goths in the Roman Empire, setting in motion the final collapse of the western empire. The new edition takes account of important new scholarship in questions of Roman identity, on economy and society as well as work on the age of Constantine, which has advanced significantly in the last decade, while recent archaeological and art historical work is more fully drawn into the narrative. At its core, the central question that drives The Roman Empire at Bay remains, what did it mean to be a Roman and how did that meaning change as the empire changed? Updated for a new generation of students, this book remains a crucial tool in the study of this period.
Author: Carl Beckwith
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191564303
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Hilary of Poitiers (c300-368), Bishop and Theologian, was instrumental in shaping the development of pro-Nicene theology in the West. Carl Beckwith engages the extensive scholarship on the fourth-century Trinitarian debates and brings new light on the structure and chronology of Hilary's monumental De Trinitate. There is a broad scholarly consensus that Hilary combined two separate theological works, a treatise on faith (De Fide) and a treatise against the 'Arians' (Adversus Arianos), to create De Trinitate. In spite of this the question of when and why Hilary performed this task has largely remained unanswered. Beckwith addresses this puzzle, situating Hilary's De Trinitate in its historical and theological context and offering a close reading of his text. He demonstrates that Hilary made significant revisions to the early books of his treatise; revisions that he attempted to conceal from his readers in order to give the impression of a unified work on the Trinity. Beckwith argues that De Fide was written in 356 following Hilary's condemnation at the synod of Béziers and prior to receiving a decision on his exile from the Emperor. When Hilary arrived in exile, he wrote a second work, Adversus Arianos. Following the synod of Sirmium in 357 and his collaboration with Basil of Ancyra in early 358, Hilary recast his efforts and began to write De Trinitate. He decided to incorporate his two earlier works, De Fide and Adversus Arianos, into this project. Toward that end, he returned to his earlier works and drastically revised their content by adding new prefaces and new theological and exegetical material to reflect his mature pro-Nicene theology. Beckwith provides a compelling case for the nature of these radical revisions, crucial textual alterations that have never before been acknowledged in the scholarship on De Trinitate.
Author: David S. Potter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134855710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Skilfully weaving together cultural, intellectual and political history, this detailed survey of two critical and eventful centuries travels the course of imperial decline. A striking achievement of historical synthesis, with a compelling interpretative line.
