Christianity, empire, and the making of religion in late antiquity

Publication Data

• Title Christianity, empire, and the making of religion in late antiquity
• Author Jeremy M. Schott
• Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location Philadelphia, Pa.
• Language English

Contents

Introduction: identity politics in the later Roman Empire
Philosophers, apologists, and empire
Porphyry on Greeks, Christians, and others
Vera religio and falsae religiones: Lactantius's divine institutes
What difference does an emperor make? apologetics and imperial ideology in Constantine's Oration to the saints and imperial letters
From Hebrew wisdom to Christian hegemony: Eusebius of Caesarea's apologetics and panegyrics
Epilogue: empire's palimpsest
Appendix: Porphyry's polemics and the great persecution.

Topics

• Church history :: Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Christianity, empire, and the making of religion in late antiquity by Jeremy M. Schott. ISBN 9780812240924. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.