The role of the bishop in late antiquity : conflict and compromise / [edited by] Andrew Fear, José Fernández Ubiña and Mar Marcos.
"Late Antiquity witnessed a major transformation in the authority and power of the Episcopate within the Church, with the result that bishops came to embody the essence of Christianity and increasingly overshadow the leading Christian laity. The rise of Episcopal power came in a period in which...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2013. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. A Dispute of Episcopal Legitimacy: Gregory Nazianzen and Maximus in Constantinople
- 2. The Donatist Conflict as Seen by Constantine and the Bishops
- 3. Ius et religio: The Conference of Carthage and the End of the Donatist Schism, 411 AD1
- 4. Pacifiers and Instigators: Bishops and Interreligious Conflicts
- 5. Controversy and Debate over Sexual Matters in the Western Church (IV Century)
- 6. 'Bishops, Judges and Emperors: CTh 16. 2. 31/ CTh 16. 5. 46/ Sirm. 14 (409)'
- 7. Bishops, Heresy and Power: Conflict and Compromise in Epistula 11* of Consentius to Augustine
- 8. Papal Authority, Local Autonomy and Imperial Control: Pope Zosimus and the Western Churches (a. 417-18)
- 9. East and West, Emperor and Bishop: Hormisdas and the Authority of the See of Rome
- 10. Preaching and Mesmerizing: The Resolution of Religious Conflicts in Late Antiquity
- 11. Bishops, Imperialism and the Barbaricum
- 12. Conflict and Compromise: The Spanish Catholic Bishops and the Arian Kingdom of Toledo (from Vouillé to Leovigild)
- 13. The Bishops and the Byzantine Intervention in Hispania.