Christianity, empire, and the making of religion in late antiquity /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Divinations.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: identity politics in the later Roman Empire
- Philosophers, apologists, and empire
- Porphyry on Greeks, Christians, and others
- Vera religio and falsae religiones: Lactantius's divine institutes
- What difference does an emperor make? apologetics and imperial ideology in Constantine's Oration to the saints and imperial letters
- From Hebrew wisdom to Christian hegemony: Eusebius of Caesarea's apologetics and panegyrics
- Epilogue: empire's palimpsest
- Appendix: Porphyry's polemics and the great persecution.