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Crisis of Empire - Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
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Crisis of Empire - Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 52
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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.
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