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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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / Allen Brent
- CHRISTIAN AND PAGAN CULTUS BY THE THIRD CENTURY / Allen Brent
- THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE IMPERIAL CULT / Allen Brent
- IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY AND THE ORIGINS OF CHURCH ORDER / Allen Brent
- CLEMENT OF ROME AND DOMITIAN'S EMPIRE / Allen Brent
- THE APOCALYPSE AND DOMITIAN'S ICONOGRAPHY / Allen Brent
- IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH AND THE MARTYR'S PROCESSION / Allen Brent
- PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN MONARCHIANISM / Allen Brent
- THE EMERGENCE OF IMPERIAL AND CATHOLIC ORDER / Allen Brent
- BIBLIOGRAPHY / Allen Brent
- BIBLICAL CITATIONS / Allen Brent
- PLATES / Allen Brent
- SUPPLEMENTS TO VIGILIAE CHRISTIANAE / Allen Brent.