Whelan Being Christian in Vandal Africa

The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial West
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-96868-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 59, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Transformation of the Classical Heritage

Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 c.e. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene (“Catholic”) and Homoian (“Arian”) Christians and explores their rival claims to political and religious legitimacy. These contests—sometimes violent—are key to understanding the wider and much-debated issues of identity and state formation in the post-imperial West.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whelan, Robin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
Time Line

Introduction

PART I. CONTESTING ORTHODOXY
1. African Churches
2. In Dialogue with Heresy: Christian Polemical Literature
3. “What Th ey Are to Us, We Are to Them”: Homoian Orthodoxy and Homoousian Heresy
4. Ecclesiastical Histories: Reinventing the Arians

PART II. ORTHODOXY AND SOCIETY
5. Exiles on Main Street: Nicene Bishops and the Vandal Court
6. Christianity, Ethnicity, and Society
7. Elite Christianity, Political Service, and Social Prestige
Epilogue: Homoian Christianity in the Post-Imperial West

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

WhelanRobin:
Robin Whelan is  Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool.