History and Virtue: Contextualizing Exemplarity in Ambrose
Ambrose's antithetical stance toward philosophy has been well documented, as has his emphasis on exemplarity for moral formation. The article recontextualizes Ambrose's antithetical writing against the philosophers by analyzing his recurrent claim of the remote antiquity of Christian exe...
| Publié dans: | Journal of early Christian studies |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
[2017]
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Journal of early Christian studies
Année: 2017, Volume: 25, Numéro: 2, Pages: 201-229 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Ambrosius, Mediolanensis, Heiliger 339-397
/ Image de l'histoire
/ Vertu
/ Philosophie
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| Classifications IxTheo: | KAA Histoire de l'Église KAB Christianisme primitif VA Philosophie |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Résumé: | Ambrose's antithetical stance toward philosophy has been well documented, as has his emphasis on exemplarity for moral formation. The article recontextualizes Ambrose's antithetical writing against the philosophers by analyzing his recurrent claim of the remote antiquity of Christian exemplars. Because of their chronological and theoretical originality, these exemplars offer the oldest and truest ways to wisdom, thereby depicting non-Christian philosophy as derivative speculation. What emerges in Ambrose's writing is a picture of Christianity dictated by exemplarity and legitimated by recourse to history. |
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| ISSN: | 1086-3184 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/earl.2017.0019 |