"We have no king but Christ": Christian Political Thought in Greater Syria on the Eve of the Arab Conquest (c. 400-585) /
Wood, PhilipAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
An examination of how, at the close of the Roman Empire Christianity influenced the political and social philosophy of the peoples of the Near East, laying the groundwork for the blending of religious and ethnic identity that we see in the Middle East today.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
An examination of how, at the close of the Roman Empire Christianity influenced the political and social philosophy of the peoples of the Near East, laying the groundwork for the blending of religious and ethnic identity that we see in the Middle East today.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Dec. 21, 2010).
Classification in a Christian empire -- Controlling the barbarians. The first Syrian Hagiographic collection -- Theories of nations and the world of late antiquity -- Edessa and beyond. The reception of the Doctrina Addai in the fifth and sixth centuries -- The Julian romance -- Crating boundaries in the Miaphysite movement -- A Miaphysite commonwealth.
Christianity and politics
Religion
Philosophy & Religion
Christianity