The Imperial Cult and the Development of Church Order: Concepts and Images of Authority in Paganism and Early Christianity Before the Age of Cyprian

by Allen Brent, Revd Allen Brent, Brent

Recent studies have re-assessed Emperor worship as a genuinely religious response to the metaphysics of social order. Brent argues that Augustus' revolution represented a genuinely religious reformation of Republican religion that had failed in its metaphysical objectives. Against this backcloth, Luke, John the Seer, Clement, Ignatius and the Apologists refashioned Christian theology as an alternative answer to that metaphysical failure. Callistus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004114203
• ISBN13: 9789004114203
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.6" x 6.5"