Cyprian and Roman Carthage

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-521-51547-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus believed fervently that his conversion experience had been a passage from the darkness of the world of Graeco-Roman paganism to his new vision of Christianity. But Cyprian's response as bishop to the Decian persecution was to be informed by the pagan culture that he had rejected so completely. His view of church order also owed much to Roman jurisprudential principles of legitimate authority exercised within a sacred boundary spatially and geographically defined. Given the highly fragmented state of the non-Christian sources for this period, Cyprian is often the only really contemporary primary source for the events through which he lived. In this 2010 book, Allen Brent contributes to our understanding both of Roman history in the mid-third century and of the enduring model of church order that developed in that period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brent, Allen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Cyprian's life and controversies; 2. Cyprian's background in Roman Carthage; 3. Historiography in the age of Decius; 4. Decius' religious policy and political rhetoric; 5. The Decian persecution; 6. The church of the martyrs; 7. Stephen's challenge to the sacramentum unitatis; 8. A final postscript: Cyprian's legacy.

Über Autor(innen)

Brent, Allen
Allen Brent is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He has published many books on the history of Christianity, most recently A Political History of Early Christianity (2009).