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...
| Pubblicato in: | Journal of early Christian studies |
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
[2017]
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Journal of early Christian studies
Anno: 2017, Volume: 25, Fascicolo: 2, Pagine: 201-229 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Ambrosius, Mediolanensis, Heiliger 339-397
/ Immagine della storia
/ Virtù
/ Filosofia
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | KAA Chiesa; storia KAB Cristianesimo delle origini VA Filosofia |
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| Riepilogo: | 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 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/earl.2017.0019 |