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
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 369 pages) :; illustrations |
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