Being Christian in Vandal Africa : the politics of orthodoxy in the post-imperial West / Robin Whelan.
"Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom--the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 CE. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene ("Catholic&...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Transformation of the classical heritage ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Contesting orthodoxy. African churches
- In dialogue with heresy : Christian polemical literature
- "What they are to us, we are to them" : Homoian orthodoxy and Homoousian heresy
- Ecclesiastical histories : reinventing the Arians
- Part II. Orthodoxy and society. Exiles on main street : Nicene bishops and the Vandal court
- Christianity, ethnicity, and society
- Elite Christianity, political service, and social prestige
- Epilogue : Homoian Christianity in the post-imperial West.