Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome - Couverture rigide

Elm, Susanna

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520269306 ISBN 13 : 9780520269309

Editeur : University of California Press, 2012

Synopsis

This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two men not to draw out the obvious contrast between the Church and the Emperor's neo-Paganism, but rather to find their common intellectual and social grounding. Her insightful analysis, supplemented by her magisterial command of sources, demonstrates the ways in which both men were part of the same dialectical whole. Elm recasts both Julian and Gregory as men entirely of their times, showing how the Roman Empire in fact provided Christianity with the ideological and social matrix without which its longevity and dynamism would have been inconceivable.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0520269306
• ISBN 13: 9780520269309
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 576