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The Excellent Empire: The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church

by Professor Jaroslav Pelikan

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
  • 15 x 22.7 x 1.1 cm

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Description: This remarkable account by an award-winning historian details the responses to the fall of Rome by the church fathers, who set the pattern for interpreting this momentous event for all succeeding centuries. ""To speak about the decline and fall of the Roman empire as 'the social triumph of the ancient church' is to look at the events associated with that 'memorable revolution' . . . through the eyes of the victors,"" writes the author. ""The thoroughness of the victors has often seen to it that there remains no other way for us to view those events. Not only are we--for this period as for so many others throughout most of human history--denied access to the mind of the common people as they watched this history in the making, such that we are forced to depend on the documents provided by various of the elites of the fourth and fifth centuries; but among the documents of those elites, only some have been permitted to survive."" Jerome, Christian humanist and translator of the Bible into Latin, represents an apocalyptic view of the crisis. Eusebius, court theologian and founder of church history, saw the fall of Rome as the sign of a new order, the ""Christian Empire."" And Augustine, fountainhead of much of Western thought during the millennium that followed, used it as the basis for his City of God. The unifying theme in this historical panorama is the final revisionist view of the fall by its greatest historian, Edward Gibbon. All of these interpretations of the fall of Rome continue to live today and deeply influence our understanding of Western culture.
The Excellent Empire: The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church and Christian Tradition: A History Of The Development Of Doctrine, Volume 2
Christian Tradition: A History Of The Development Of Doctrine, Volume 2The Excellent Empire: The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church

  • Author

    Professor Jaroslav Pelikan

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Wipf & Stock Publishers

  • Published

    April 2014

  • Weight

    227g

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781625646460

  • ISBN-10

    1625646461

  • Eden Code

    4940658

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