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This book challenges long-held assumptions over New Rome?s meteoric growth in ecclesiastical standing, offering in their place a fundamentally different reading of the early Constantinopolitan episcopate during the two landmark councils of 381 and 451 and the seven tumultuous decades between them.00Traditional representations of Constantinople during the period from the First Council of Constantinople (381) to the Council of Chalcedon (451) portray a see that was undergoing exponential growth in episcopal authority and increasing in its confidence to assert supremacy over the churches of the east as well as to challenge Rome?s authority in the west. Central to this assessment are two canons ? canon 3 of 381 and canon 28 of 451 ? which have for centuries been read as confirmation of Constantinople?s ecclesiastical ambition and evidence for its growth in status. However, through close consideration of the political, episcopal, theological, and demographic characteristics unique to early Constantinople, this book argues that the city?s later significance as the centre of eastern Christianity and foil to Rome has served to conceal deep institutional weaknesses that severely inhibited Constantinople?s early ecclesiastical development. By unpicking teleological approaches to Constantinople?s early history and deconstructing narratives synonymous with the city?s later Byzantine legacy, this book offers an alternative reading of this crucial seventy-year period. It demonstrates that early Constantinople?s bishops not only lacked the institutional stability to lay claim to geo-ecclesiastical leadership but that canon 3 and canon 28, rather than being indicative of Constantinople?s rising episcopal strength, were in fact attempts to address deeply destructive internal weaknesses that had plagued the city?s early episcopal and political institutions.

262.5*13 --- 262.5*15 --- Constantinopel I--(381) --- Chalcedon--(451) --- Church history --- Primitive and early church. --- 30-600. --- Istanbul (Turkey) --- Turkey --- Church history. --- 262.5*15 Chalcedon--(451) --- 262.5*13 Constantinopel I--(381) --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. --- Istanbul (Turkey) - Church history.

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La question des origines du christianisme demeure très débattue. Quelle était la nature de ce mouvement religieux ? Comment se sépare-t-il du judaïsme ? Ce livre se veut une sorte de manuel critique et théorique sur l'histoire des origines du christianisme, envisagée à partir des sources et des doctrines, ainsi qu'à travers un certain nombre de questions, de concepts et de problématiques particulières. L'auteur explore l'étude des phénomènes de conservation et de transmission des sources littéraires de ce domaine religieux. Il étudie les cadres historique, politique et religieux des premiers temps du christianisme ; présente les instruments de travail en christianologie ancienne ; analyse les sources littéraires ; présente les doctrines... Une somme structurée en 42 "leçons" pour faire le tour des connaissances scientifiques sur cette période fascinante.

Christianity --- Church history --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Church --- Origin --- Historiography&delete& --- Foundation --- Historiography

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A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ followers came into contact with the many small groups in Greek and Roman antiquity. Organized around the workplace, a deity, a diasporic identity, or a neighborhood, these associations gathered in small face-to-face meetings and provided the principal context for cultic and social interactions for their members. Unlike most other groups, however, about which we have data on their rules of membership, financial management, and organizational hierarchy, we have very little information about early Christ groups. Drawing on data about associative practices throughout the ancient world, this innovative study offers new insight into the structure and mission of the early Christ groups. John S. Kloppenborg situates the Christ associations within the broader historical context of the ancient Mediterranean and reveals that they were probably smaller than previously believed and did not have a uniform system of governance, and that the attraction of Christ groups was based more on practice than theological belief.

27 "00/02" --- 27 "00/02" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"00/02" --- 27 "00/02" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/02" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--?"00/02" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/02" --- Church history --- Christian communities --- Christian life --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Communautés chrétiennes. --- Vie chrétienne --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- History --- History. --- Associations, institutions, etc --- 11.51 early Christianity. --- Church history. --- Primitive and early church. --- 30-600 --- Rome (Empire) --- Greece. --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical

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Het was het jaar des Heren 311. En de toekomst zou schitterend zijn. Het Romeinse rijk had een christelijke keizer gekregen, Constantijn. Niets stond de overwinning van het christendom nog in de weg. Maar alles loopt anders. Ketters zaaien verdeeldheid. Machtige patriarchen vliegen elkaar in de haren. Bisschoppen worden verbannen, gelovigen verjaagd, gemarteld of vermoord. En ondertussen doen keizers wanhopige pogingen de eenheid te bewaren. Het helpt niets. De Kerk valt uiteen. En daarmee het rijk. We leren er niet veel over op school, over de ondergang van het Romeinse rijk. Daarom kent vrijwel niemand het fascinerende verhaal van die ingrijpende kerkelijke én bestuurlijke crisis. Van barbaarse invallen, klimaatsrampen en een verwoestende oorlog tegen de Perzen. Van een wonderbaarlijke overwinning--en dan duiken uit de woestijn, als uit de diepten van de hel, Arabische legers op. Het verhaal van de ondergang van het Romeinse rijk is zó fantastisch dat je het onmogelijk kunt verzinnen. Zoiets kan alleen maar echt gebeurd zijn. --

Church history --- Islam --- Islam. --- History --- Middle Ages. --- Primitive and early church. --- To 1500. --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome --- Byzantine Empire. --- Rome (Empire). --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Christianity --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Europe --- 27 <37> "00/04" --- 27 <37> "00/04" Histoire de l'Eglise--Rome. Oud-Italië--?"00/04" --- 27 <37> "00/04" Kerkgeschiedenis--Rome. Oud-Italië--?"00/04" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Rome. Oud-Italië--?"00/04" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Rome. Oud-Italië--?"00/04" --- Christian church history --- anno 500-1499 --- Kerkgeschiedenis --- Godsdienstgeschiedenis --- Christendom en islam --- Klassieke oudheid

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Late antiquity saw a proliferation of Christian texts dwelling on the emotions and physical sensations of dying, not as a heroic martyr in a public square or a judge's court, but as an individual, at home in a bed or in a private room. In sermons, letters, and ascetic traditions, late ancient Christians imagined the last minutes of life and the events that followed death in elaborate detail. The majority of these imagined scenarios linked the quality of the experience to the moral state of the person who died. Death was no longer the "happy ending," in Judith Perkins's words, it had been to Christians of the first three centuries, an escape from the difficult and painful world. Instead, death was most often imagined as a terrifying, desperate experience. This book is the first to trace how, in late ancient Christianity, death came to be thought of as a moment of reckoning: a physical ordeal whose pain is followed by an immediate judgment of one's actions by angels and demons and, after that, fitting punishment. Because late ancient Christian culture valued the use of the imagination as a religious tool and because Christian teachers encouraged Christians to revisit the prospect of their deaths often, this novel description of death was more than an abstract idea. Rather, its appearance ushered in a new ethical sensibility among Christians, in which one's death was to be imagined frequently and anticipated in detail. This was, at first glance, meant as a tool for individuals: preachers counted on the fact that becoming aware of a judgment arriving at the end of one's life tends to sharpen one's scruples. But, as this book argues, the change in Christian sensibility toward death did not just affect individuals. Once established, it shifted the ethics of Christianity as a tradition. This is because death repeatedly and frequently imagined as the moment of reckoning created a fund of images and ideas about what constituted a human being and how variances in human morality should be treated. This had significant effects on the Christian assumption of power in late antiquity, especially in the case of the capacity to authorize violence against others. The thinking about death traced here thus contributed to the seemingly paradoxical situation in which Christians proclaimed their identity with a crucified person, yet were willing to use force against their ideological opponents.

Death --- Church history --- 27 "04/06" --- 261.6 --- 261.6 De Kerk en de cultuur: christelijke beschaving; Kerk en vooruitgang; Kerk en wereld --- De Kerk en de cultuur: christelijke beschaving; Kerk en vooruitgang; Kerk en wereld --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- 27 "04/06" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"04/06" --- 27 "04/06" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"04/06" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--?"04/06" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"04/06" --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Philosophy --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Death - Religious aspects - Christianity. --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.