Crisis of empire
Subtitle: doctrine and dissent at the end of late antiquity
By: Phil Booth
Series: Transformation of the classical heritage -- 52; Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature; Transformation of the classical heritage -- 52.; Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780520280427
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Ancient; Staat; Politische Krise; Christianity; General; RELIGION; Church history; Ostkirche; HISTORY
Description: "This book focuses on the attempts of three ascetics-John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus Confessor-to determine the Church's power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the eastern Roman empire suffered serious reversals in the face of Persian and then Islamic expansion. By asserting visions which reconciled long-standing intellectual tensions between asceticism and Church, these authors established the framework for their subsequent emergence as Constantinople's most vociferous religious critics, their alliance with the Roman popes, and their radical rejection of imperial interference in matters of the faith. Situated within the broader religious currents of the fourth to seventh centuries, this book throws new light on the nature not only of the holy man in late antiquity, but also of the Byzantine Orthodoxy that would emerge in the Middle Ages, and which is still central to the churches of Greece and Eastern Europe"--

"This book focuses on the attempts of three seventh-century Palestinian intellectuals--John Moschos, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus the Confessor--to determine the Church's power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the eastern Roman empire suffered serious reversals in the face of Persian and then Islamic expansion. Through their stories, Booth documents nothing less than a profound change in the very nature of the self-perception of a religious society. Although focused on the first half of the seventh century, this book throws bright light both behind itself--on the nature of the role of the holy man in late antiquity--and in front of itself--on the nature of the Byzantine Orthodoxy that would emerge in the middle ages, and which is still central to the churches of Greece and Eastern Europe"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward the sacramental saint; title: Sophronius and the Miracles; title: Moschus and the Meadow; title: Maximus and the Mystagogy; title: The making of the Monenergist crisis; title: Jerusalem and Rome at the dawn of the caliphate; title: Rebellion and retribution.