Christians shaping identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium
Subtitle: studies inspired by Pauline Allen
By: edited by Geoffrey Dunn, Wendy Mayer
Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae : texts and studies of early Christian life and language -- Volume 132
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9789004298972; 9789004301573
Subjects: Church history; Identification (Religion); Christianity; Identity (Psychology); History
Description: "The essays collected in Christians Shaping Identity celebrate Pauline Allen’s significant contribution to early Christian, late antique, and Byzantine studies, especially concerning bishops, heresy/orthodoxy and christology. Covering the period from earliest Christianity to middle Byzantium, the first eighteen essays explore the varied ways in which Christians constructed their own identity and that of the society around them. A final four essays explore the same theme within Roman Catholicism and oriental Christianity in the late 19th to 21st centuries, with particular attention to the subtle relationships between the shaping of the early Christian past and the moulding of Christian identity today. Among the many leading scholars represented are Averil Cameron and Elizabeth A. Clark."--
Notes: Includes index.