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Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity - The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition (Paperback)
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Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity - The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition (Paperback)
Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 37
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Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change
from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of
this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishopOCoas the
highest Church official in his cityOCofrom model Christian to model
citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally learned, innovative, and
groundbreaking work traces this transition with a twofold aim: to
deemphasize the reign of the emperor Constantine, which has
traditionally been regarded as a watershed in the development of
the Church as an institution, and to bring to the fore the
continued importance of the religious underpinnings of the bishop's
role as civic leader. Rapp rejects Max WeberOCOs categories of
charismatic versus institutional authority that have traditionally
been used to distinguish the nature of episcopal authority from
that of the ascetic and holy man. Instead she proposes a model of
spiritual authority, ascetic authority and pragmatic authority, in
which a bishopOCOs visible asceticism is taken as evidence of his
spiritual powers and at the same time provides the justification
for his public role. In clear and graceful prose, Rapp provides a
wholly fresh analysis of the changing dynamics of social mobility
as played out in episcopal appointments."
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