RT Book
T1 Authority and the sacred: aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman world
T2 Canto original series
A1 Brown, Peter 1935-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1992
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883373750
AB The Christianisation of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe, yet at the time it was a tentative and piecemeal process. Peter Brown's fascinating study examines the factors which proved decisive and the compromises which made the emergence of the Christian 'thought world' possible: how the the old gods of the Roman Empire could be reinterpreted as symbols to further the message of the Church. Peter Brown also shows how Christian holy men were less representative of a triumphant faith than negotiators of a working compromise between the new faith and traditional ways of dealing with the supernatural worlds.
AB Preface -- 1. Christianisation : narratives and processes -- 2. The limits of intolerance -- 3. Arbiters of the holy : the Christian holy man in late antiquity -- Notes -- Index
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BR170
SN 9780511802355
K1 Church history, Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Church History : Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Church history ; Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Rome ; Religion
K1 Rome : Religion.
K1 Rome : Religion
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511802355