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Angels in Late Ancient Christianity (Hardcover)
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Angels in Late Ancient Christianity (Hardcover)
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Ellen Muehlberger explores the diverse and inventive ideas
Christians held about angels in late antiquity. During the fourth
and fifth centuries, Christians began experimenting with new modes
of piety, adapting longstanding forms of public authority to
Christian leadership and advancing novel ways of cultivating body
and mind to further the progress of individual Christians.
Muehlberger argues that in practicing these new modes of piety,
Christians developed new ways of thinking about angels. The book
begins with a detailed examination of the two most popular
discourses about angels that developed in late antiquity. In the
first, developed by Christians cultivating certain kinds of ascetic
practices, angels were one type of being among many in a shifting
universe, and their primary purpose was to guard and to guide
Christians. In the other, articulated by urban Christian leaders in
contest with one another, angels were morally stable characters
described in the emerging canon of Scripture, available to enable
readers to render Scripture coherent with emerging theological
positions. Muehlberger goes on to show how these two discourses did
not remain isolated in separate spheres of cultivation and
contestation, but influenced one another and the wider Christian
culture. She offers in-depth analysis of popular biographies
written in late antiquity, of the community standards of emerging
monastic communities, and of the training programs developed to
prepare Christians to participate in ritual, demonstrating that new
ideas about angels shaped and directed the formation of the
definitive institutions of late antiquity. Angels in Late Ancient
Christianity is a meticulous and thorough study of early Christian
ideas about angels, but it also offers a different perspective on
late ancient Christian history, arguing that angels were central
rather than peripheral to the emergence of Christian institutions
and Christian culture in late antiquity.
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