Title: Ambrosiaster's political theology /
Authors: Lunn-Rockliffe, Sophie
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Ambrosiaster.; Political theology History of doctrines; Political theology Early works to 1800.
Abstract: A study of the writings of the late-4th-century Christian writer Ambrosiaster, whose works were influential on his near contemporaries and throughout the Middle Ages. Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe discusses his political theology and also addresses the problem of the author's mysterious identity.
Contents: Ambrosiaster's writings and identity. The emergence of Ambrosiaster ; Ambrosiaster's background ; Ambrosiaster's ecclesiastical context -- Ambrosiaster's political theology. Social hierarchies ; Ecclesiastical hierarchies ; Divine kingship ; Diabolical tyranny.