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Ambrosiaster's Political Theology

by Sophie Lunn-rockliffe

  • Hardback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

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The works of Ambrosiaster, a Christian writing in Rome in the late fourth century, were influential on his near contemporaries and throughout the Middle Ages. In the first half of her study, Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe addresses the problem of the author's mysterious identity (which scholars have puzzled over for centuries) and places him in a broad historical and intellectual context. In the second half she addresses Ambrosiaster's political theology, an idea which has been explored in other late Roman Christian writers but which has never been addressed in his works. She looks at how Ambrosiaster's attitudes to social and political order were formed on the basis of theological concepts and the interpretation of scripture, and shows that he espoused a rigid hierarchical and monarchical organization in the church, society, and the Roman empire. He also traced close connections between the Devil, characterized as a rebel against God, and the earthly tyrants and usurpers who followed his example.
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  • Author

    Sophie Lunn-rockliffe

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    October 2007

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199230204

  • ISBN-10

    019923020X

  • Eden Code

    1147301

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