Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse

by Averil Cameron

Book Overview

Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christianity in late antiquity and its flourishing in the medieval world. In asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, Averil Cameron turns to the development of Christian discourse over the first to sixth centuries A.D., investigating the discourse's essential characteristics, its effects on existing forms of communication, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520089235
• ISBN13: 9780520089235
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.0"