RT Book
T1 Bishops in flight: exile and displacement in late antiquity
A1 Barry, Jennifer 1982-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1664384782
AB Introduction -- Athanasius of Alexandria in flight -- How to return from flight -- John Chrysostom in flight -- To rehabilitate and return a bishop in flight -- To condemn a bishop in flight -- Remembering exile -- Epilogue.
AB "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 hence 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, illuminating 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"--Provided by publisher
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BR1604.23
SN 9780520300378
K1 Athanasius : Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria : -373
K1 John Chrysostom : Saint : -407
K1 Exiles : Rome : History
K1 Exile (punishment) : Rome
K1 Bishops : Rome : History : Early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Persecution : History : Early church, ca. 30-600