A free open access ebook is upon publication. Learn more at
www.luminosoa.org. Flight during times of persecution has a long
and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century,
bishops who fled were considered cowards or, worse yet, heretics.
On the face, flight meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of
faith and community. But by the fourth century, the terms of
persecution changed as Christianity became the favored cult of the
Roman Empire. Prominent Christians who fled and survived became
founders and influencers of Christianity over time. Bishops in
Flight examines the various ways these episcopal leaders both
appealed to and altered the discourse of Christian flight to defend
their status as purveyors of Christian truth, even when their
exiles appeared to condemn them. Their stories illuminate how
profoundly Christian authors deployed theological discourse and the
rhetoric of heresy to respond to the phenomenal political
instability of the fourth and fifth centuries.
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