Christianity, empire, and the making of religion in late antiquity
By: Jeremy M. Schott.
Series: Divinations
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780812240924
Subjects: Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: identity politics in the later Roman Empire; title: Philosophers, apologists, and empire; title: Porphyry on Greeks, Christians, and others; title: Vera religio and falsae religiones: Lactantius's divine institutes; title: What difference does an emperor make? apologetics and imperial ideology in Constantine's oration to the saints and imperial letters; title: From Hebrew wisdom to Christian hegemony: Eusebius of Caesarea's apologetics and panegyrics; title: Epilogue: empire's palimpsest; title: Appendix: Porphyry's polemics and the great persecution.