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Ambrose, the first patrician bishop and a prolific writer of a broad range of works, presents numerous opportunities for interdisciplinary research. His participation in many social groups, sometimes at odds with each other, and sometimes overlapping, demanded flexibility. The result is a protean figure, whose motives are not always clear. His own works and those of the scholars who contribute to this volume are accordingly multidisciplinary. Fields such as theology (especially historical theology), history, classics, philosophy, linguistics, and aesthetics, among others, and the recent international research that belongs to them nuance the volume's investigation of Ambrose's actions and motivations. The reader will find that Ambrose's efforts to create and to strengthen social cohesion included building relationships and erecting social structures set on the foundations of Nicaean Christianity against heresy and paganism. A fusion of Graeco-Roman and Judeo-Christian intellectual traditions reinforced the solidarity Ambrose promoted. These endeavors met with success then, and continue to do so now, as indicated by the modern community of scholars found within this book.

Church history --- Primitive and early church. --- Ambrose,

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"The religious revolution of late antiquity and its intertwined religious history are reflected in a broad array of new forms of religious belief and practice, of which Christianity is only the most perceptible one. It is represented in the passage from polytheistic systems to monotheistic and dualist ones, as well as in the move from rituals centred upon sacrifices in temples to rituals established upon scriptures, in churches, synagogues, or mosques. This double dynamism of beliefs and rituals sheds light on the transformations of religious ethos. Guy G. Stroumsa's two-part volume reflects this double argument. The essays all focus on central aspects, such as in Part I on mental aspects of religion in the Roman Empire, as expressed in early Christian texts and traditions, and in Part II on religious communication across the empire's cultures and communities"--

Church history --- Religion and culture --- 291.15 --- Culture and religion --- Culture --- 291.15 Godsdiensten: wederzijdse afhankelijkheid --- Godsdiensten: wederzijdse afhankelijkheid --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Rome --- Religion --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Religion and culture - Rome --- Rome - Religion

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Given its eschatological orientation and its marginal position in the Roman Empire, emergent Christianity found embodiment, as an aspect of being in the world, problematic. Those identified and identifying as Christians developed two broad responses to that world as they embraced the idea of being in, yet not of it. The first response, martyrdom, was witness to the strength their faith gave to fragile bodies, particularly those of women, and the ability by suffering to overcome bodily limitation and attain the resurrection life. The second, asceticism, complemented and later continued martyrdom as a means of bodily transcendence and participation in the spiritual world.

Asceticism --- Martyrdom --- Church history --- History --- Christianity. --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Martyrdom (Christianity) --- Christian martyrs

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Par la Novelle 137, en date du 26 mars 565, l empereur Justinien imposait la récitation à haute voix de certaines prières et déterminait les connaissances liturgiques des candidats à l épiscopat. Depuis le IVe siècle la législation impériale s intéressait aux institutions ecclésiastiques, tandis que les euchologes enregistraient la partie religieuse des cérémonies impériales. Quelle évolution par rapport aux trois premiers siècles de notre ère ! En ces temps-là, plus précisément vers 150, le philosophe et apologiste chrétien Justin estimait nécessaire d écrire à l empereur Antonin pour justifier les institutions chrétiennes, dont le culte, en démontrant qu elles ne comportaient rien de répréhensible. Quarante ans plus tôt, l empereur Trajan avait ordonné des poursuites contre les chrétiens, et Pline, gouverneur de Bythinie, lui rendait compte de la procédure qu il avait engagée, vers 111, contre ceux qui lui avaient été déférés, l informant à cette occasion de quelques aspects de leur culte. En quelques siècles, le culte chrétien a ainsi passé de la clandestinité à la manifestation publique, et la législation romaine a évolué, de la répression à l encadrement de ce culte. Reconstituer l histoire du culte chrétien dans l Empire romain pendant cette longue période implique que l on rende compte de ces évolutions, en cherchant à identifier et à localiser dans le temps les césures intervenues et la succession des époques.

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Against the background of ongoing research on the diversity of social environments during the Early Roman Empire, this volume focuses on various early Christian 'worlds' as they appear in canonical and non-canonical writings. How did Early Christians experience 'rural' and 'urban' life? How did they react to them? Starting with methodological reflections on urbanity and early Christian beginnings, special attention is devoted to the Jesus-tradition. In what sense did the perception of Jesus, the 'Galilean village Jew', change when his message was carried into the cities of the Mediterranean world from Jerusalem to Athens or Rome? Subsequent articles deal with various personalities or literary works whose attitudes towards urban life shaped nascent Christianity. In 18 interdisciplinary articles the book explores the great diversity of local Christian milieus in their Mediterranean contexts and demonstrates the wide range of Christian cultural perspectives. --

Church history --- Cities and towns --- 27 "00/05" --- 27 <08> --- 27 <08> Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- 27 <08> Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- 27 "00/05" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"00/05" --- 27 "00/05" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/05" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--?"00/05" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/05" --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Religious aspects --- Rome --- Church history. --- Religion. --- Christianity. --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. --- Cities and towns - Religious aspects - Christianity. --- Rome - Church history. --- Rome - Religion.