The imperial cult and the development of church order : : concepts and images of authority in paganism and early Christianity before the Age of Cyprian / / by Allen Brent.

Recent studies have re-assessed Emperor worship as a genuinely religious response to the metaphysics of social order. Brent argues that Augustus' revolution represented a genuinely religious reformation of Republican religion that had failed in its metaphysical objectives. Against this backclot...

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Superior document:Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, v. 45
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1999.
Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
Series:Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 45.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 369 pages) :; illustrations
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