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Bishops in Flight
Jennifer Barry
其他書名
Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity
出版Univ of California Press, 2019-04-23
主題History / Ancient / GeneralReligion / AncientReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / Christian Church / History
ISBN05209718099780520971806
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=plqUDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were considered cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face, flight meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of faith and community. But by the fourth century, the terms of persecution changed as Christianity became the favored cult of the Roman Empire. Prominent Christians who fled and survived became founders and influencers of Christianity over time. 
 
Bishops in Flight examines the various ways these episcopal leaders both appealed to and altered the discourse of Christian flight to defend their status as purveyors of Christian truth, even when their exiles appeared to condemn them. Their stories illuminate how profoundly Christian authors deployed theological discourse and the rhetoric of heresy to respond to the phenomenal political instability of the fourth and fifth centuries.