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Epiphanius of Cyprus
Andrew S. Jacobs
其他書名
A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity
出版
Univ of California Press
, 2021-09-28
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
History / Ancient / General
Religion / General
Religion / Christianity / General
Religion / Christianity / Denominations
Religion / Ancient
ISBN
0520385705
9780520385702
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zsU7EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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註釋
Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 CE, was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text—the
Panarion
, an encyclopedia of heresies—is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual eccentric, a marginal figure of late antiquity. In this book, Andrew S. Jacobs moves Epiphanius from the margin back toward the center and proposes we view major cultural themes of late antiquity in a new light altogether. Through an examination of the key cultural concepts of celebrity, conversion, discipline, scripture, and salvation, Jacobs shifts our understanding of late antiquity from a transformational period open to new ideas and peoples toward a Christian Empire that posited a troubling, but ever-present, otherness at the center of its cultural production.