We Have No King But Christ'

Christian Political Thought in Greater Syria on the Eve of the Arab Conquest (C.400-585)
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-958849-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Reihe: Oxford Studies in Byzantium

Drawing on little-used sources in Syriac, once the lingua franca of the Middle East, Philip Wood examines how, at the close of the Roman Empire, Christianity carried with it new foundation myths for the peoples of the Near East that transformed their self-identity and their relationships with their rulers. This cultural independence was followed by a more radical political philosophy that dared to criticize the emperor and laid the seeds for the blending of religious and ethnic
identity that we see in the Middle East today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wood, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1: Classification in a Christian Empire
2: Controlling the Barbarians: The First Syrian Hagiographic Collection
3: Theories of Nations and the World of Late Antiquity
4: Edessa and Beyond: The Reception of the Doctrina Addai in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
5: The Julian Romance
6: Creating Boundaries in the Miaphysite Movement
7: A Miaphysite Commonwealth
Conclusions