TY  - GEN
AU  - Barry,Jennifer
TI  - Bishops in Flight : Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity
SN  - luminos.69
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oakland
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - History
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Religion & beliefs
KW  - Exile
KW  - Christian Flight
KW  - Displacement
KW  - Athanasius of Alexandria
KW  - John Chrysostom
KW  - Eusebius of Nicomedia
KW  - Meletius of Antioch
KW  - Ecclesiastical Historians
KW  - Orthodoxy and Heresy
KW  - Nicene Controversy
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face of it, it meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of the faith and its community. But, by the fourth century, the terms of persecution changed as Christianity became the favored cult of the Roman Empire. Prominent Christians who fled and hence survived became founders and influencers of Christianity over time. Bishops in Flight examines the various ways these episcopal leaders both appealed to and altered the discourse of Christian flight to defend their status as purveyors of Christian truth even when their exiles appeared to condemn them. It illuminates how profoundly Christian authors deployed theological discourse and the rhetoric of heresy to respond to the phenomenal political instability of the fourth and fifth centuries
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25143/1/bishops-in-flight.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25143/1/bishops-in-flight.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25143/1/bishops-in-flight.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32835
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