Christians shaping identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium : : studies inspired by Pauline Allen / / edited by Geoffrey Dunn, Wendy Mayer.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Volume 132
• TeilnehmendeR: Dunn, Geoffrey D., 1962-; Mayer, Wendy,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; Volume 132.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; 1 Introduction /; 2 Jews, Gentiles and Ethnic Identity in the Gospel of Matthew /; 3 Die Herkunft der Christen in der Apologie des Aristides: Baustein zu einem Kommentar /; 4 What did Ancient Christians Say when they Cast out Demons? Inferences from Spells and Amulets /; 5 On Being a Christian in Late Antiquity: St Basil the Great between the Desert and the City /; 6 The Likeness to God and the Imitation of Christ: The Transformation of the Platonic Tradition in Gregory of Nyssa /; 7 Origen after the Origenist Controversy /; 8 Shaping the Sick Soul: Reshaping the Identity of John Chrysostom /; 9 Theory and Practice in Ambrose: De officiis and the Political Interventions of the Bishop of Milan /; 10 Jerome as Priest, Exegete, and ‘Man of the Church’ /; 11 The Use of Comparison and Contrast in Shaping the Identity of a Desert Monk /; 12 Augustine’s Scriptural Exegesis in De sermone Domini in monte and the Shaping of Christian Perfection /; 13 Shaping the Poor: The Philosophical Anthropology of Augustine in the Context of the Era of Crisis /; 14 Innocent I on Heretics and Schismatics as Shaping Christian Identity /; 15 Ariadne Augusta: Shaping the Identity of the Early Byzantine Empress /; 16 Dream Interpretation and Christian Identity in Late Antique Rome and Byzantium /; 17 Shaping Coptic Christian Identity: Severus and the Adoption in Egypt of the Cult of the Forty Martyrs /; 18 The Treatment of Ecumenical Councils in Byzantine Chronicles /; 19 Flights of Fancy: Some Imaginary Debates in Late Antiquity /; 20 The Personal Identity of Jesus Christ: Alois Grillmeier’s Contribution to its Conceptualisation /; 21 Christological Declarations with Oriental Churches /; 22 ‘Historical Development’ and Early Christianity: George Tyrrell’s Modernist Adaptation and Critique /; 23 Male-Centred Christology and Female Cultic Incapability: Women’s impedimentum sexus /; Index of Primary Sources --; General Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004301577
• ISSN: 0920-623X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Geoffrey Dunn, Wendy Mayer.

The essays collected in Christians Shaping Identity celebrate Pauline Allen’s significant contribution to early Christian, late antique, and Byzantine studies, especially concerning bishops, heresy/orthodoxy and christology. Covering the period from earliest Christianity to middle Byzantium, the first eighteen essays explore the varied ways in which Christians constructed their own identity and that of the society around them. A final four essays explore the same theme within Roman Catholicism and oriental Christianity in the late 19th to 21st centuries, with particular attention to the subtle relationships between the shaping of the early Christian past and the moulding of Christian identity today. Among the many leading scholars represented are Averil Cameron and Elizabeth A. Clark.