Doctrine and Power: Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire. By Carlos R. Galvão-Sobrinho
The changing nature of Christian leadership during late antiquity has been the subject of considerable scholarship in recent years. Galvão-Sobrinho's monograph, a revised doctoral thesis published in the outstanding Transformation of the Classical Heritage series by the University of California...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 736-737 |
| Review of: | Doctrine and power (Berkeley [u.a.] : Univ. of California Press, 2013) (Gwynn, David M.)
Doctrine and power (Berkeley [u.a.] : Univ. of California Press, 2013) (Gwynn, David M.) |
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| Summary: | The changing nature of Christian leadership during late antiquity has been the subject of considerable scholarship in recent years. Galvão-Sobrinho's monograph, a revised doctoral thesis published in the outstanding Transformation of the Classical Heritage series by the University of California Press, offers a further contribution to that debate. He opens with some familiar and yet still unresolved questions: ‘Why was the Arian controversy so extensive and so incendiary? And why did it last so long?’ In seeking his answers, Galvão-Sobrinho presents a reinterpretation of the theological and ecclesiastical conflicts that divided the early fourth-century church and their implications for the evolution of episcopal authority. The opening chapters set the third-century background (chs. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flu090 |