Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power : Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire EPUB
by Lea Niccolai
Part of the Greek Culture in the Roman World series
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This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state.
Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the rise and consolidation of a Christian politics of interpretation that relied on exegesis as a self-legitimising device to secure control over Roman history via claims to Christianity's control of paideia.
This reconstruction infuses Julian's reaction with contextual significance.
His literary and political project emerges as a response to contemporary reconfigurations of Christian hermeneutics as controlling the meaning of Rome's culture and history.
At the same time, understanding Julian as a participant in a larger debate re-qualifies all fourth-century political and episcopal discourse as a long knock-on effect reacting to the imperial mobilisation of Christian debates over the link between power and culture.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/05/2023
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
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- ISBN:9781009299282