Sons of Hellenism, fathers of the church [electronic resource] : Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the vision of Rome / Susanna Elm.
This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two men not to draw out the obvious contrast betwee...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
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©2012.
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| Series: | Transformation of the classical heritage ;
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| Summary: | This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two men not to draw out the obvious contrast between the Church and the Emperor's neo-Paganism, but rather to find their common intellectual and social grounding. Her insightful analysis, supplemented by her magisterial command of sources, demonstrates the ways in which both men were part of the same dialectical whole. Elm recasts both Julian and Gregory as men entirely of their times, showing how the Roman Empire in fact provided Christianity with the ideological and social matrix without which its longevity and dynamism would have been inconceivable. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 553 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520951655 0520951654 0520269306 9780520269309 1280112611 9781280112614 |