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Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church

Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome

by Susanna Elm

  • Paperback
  • 558 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • 14.5 x 22.1 x 3.6 cm

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This ground breaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two men not to draw out the obvious contrast between the Church and the Emperor's neo-Paganism, but rather to find their common intellectual and social grounding. Her insightful analysis, supplemented by her magisterial command of sources, demonstrates the ways in which both men were part of the same dialectical whole. Elm recasts both Julian and Gregory as men entirely of their times, showing how the Roman Empire in fact provided Christianity with the ideological and social matrix without which its longevity and dynamism would have been inconceivable.
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  • Author

    Susanna Elm

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    University of California Press

  • Published

    October 2015

  • Weight

    704g

  • Page Count

    558

  • Dimensions

    14.5 x 22.1 x 3.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520287549

  • ISBN-10

    0520287541

  • Eden Code

    4347286

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