Crisis of Empire - Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late Antiquity

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-520-28042-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 52, 416 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

Reihe: Transformation of the Classical Heritage

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Booth, Phil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Spätantike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Toward the Sacramental Saint

Ascetics and the Eucharist before Chalcedon

Cyril of Scythopolis and the Second Origenist Crisis

Mystics and Liturgists

Hagiography and the Eucharist after Chalcedon

2. Sophronius and the Miracles

Impresario of the Saints

Medicine and Miracle

Narratives of Redemption

The Miracles in Comparative Perspective

3. Moschus and the Meadow

The Fall of Jerusalem

Moschus from Alexandria to Rome

Ascetics and the City

Chalcedon and the Eucharist

4. Maximus and the Mystagogy

Maximus, Monk of Palestine

The Return of the Cross

The Mystagogy

5. The Making of the Monenergist Crisis

The Origins of Monenergism

The Heraclian Unions

Sophronius the Dissident

6. Jerusalem and Rome at the Dawn of the Caliphate

Sophronius the Patriarch

Jerusalem from Roman to Islamic Rule

The Year of the Four Emperors

From Operations to Wills

Maximus and the Popes

7. Rebellion and Retribution

Maximus from Africa to Rome

The Roman-Palestinian Alliance

Rebellion and Trial

Maximus in Exile

Conclusion

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Phil Booth is Leventis Lecturer in Eastern Christianity at Oxford University.