Booth Crisis of Empire

Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late Antiquity
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-520-95658-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 52, 419 Seiten

Reihe: Transformation of the Classical Heritage

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Booth, Phil

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Toward the Sacramental Saint
Ascetics and the Eucharist before Chalcedon

Cyril of Scythopolis and the Second Origenist Crisis
Mystics and Liturgists

Hagiography and the Eucharist after Chalcedon

2. Sophronius and the Miracles
Impresario of the Saints

Medicine and Miracle

Narratives of Redemption

The Miracles in Comparative Perspective

3. Moschus and the Meadow
The Fall of Jerusalem

Moschus from Alexandria to Rome

Ascetics and the City

Chalcedon and the Eucharist

4. Maximus and the Mystagogy

Maximus, Monk of Palestine

The Return of the Cross

The Mystagogy

5. The Making of the Monenergist Crisis

The Origins of Monenergism

The Heraclian Unions

Sophronius the Dissident

6. Jerusalem and Rome at the Dawn of the Caliphate

Sophronius the Patriarch

Jerusalem from Roman to Islamic Rule

The Year of the Four Emperors

From Operations to Wills

Maximus and the Popes

7. Rebellion and Retribution
Maximus from Africa to Rome

The Roman-Palestinian Alliance

Rebellion and Trial

Maximus in Exile

Conclusion

Bibliography

Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

BoothPhil:

Phil Booth is Leventis Lecturer in Eastern Christianity at Oxford University.