Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity by Schott, Jeremy M - 2008

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Hardcover with dust jacket. NF/NF

Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 2008. Hardcover. New. 254 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.

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Hardback. New. In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early fourth century C.E.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Hardcover. Good Condition. 23.9 x 16.3 x 2.6 cm. No dust jacket. All pages unmarked and uncreased. Overall, sound and serviceable. Publisher's note: In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early fourth century C.E. During this turbulent period, which began with Diocletian's persecution of the Christians and ended with Constantine's assumption of sole rule and the consolidation of a new Christian empire, Christian apologists and anti-Christian polemicists launched a number of literary salvos in a battle for the minds and souls of the empire. Schott focuses on the works of the Platonist philosopher and anti- Christian polemicist Porphyry of Tyre and his Christian respondents: the Latin… Read More

Hardback. New. In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early fourth century C.E.