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...
| Publicado no: | Journal of early Christian studies |
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
[2017]
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Journal of early Christian studies
Ano: 2017, Volume: 25, Número: 2, Páginas: 201-229 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Ambrosius, Mediolanensis, Heiliger 339-397
/ Interpretação da história
/ Virtude
/ Filosofia
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| Classificações IxTheo: | KAA Igreja ; História KAB Cristianismo primitivo VA Filosofia |
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| Resumo: | 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 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/earl.2017.0019 |