End of Ancient Christianity

Name: End of Ancient Christianity
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ISBN: 9780521339490

ISBN-10: 0521339499

ISBN-13: 9780521339490

Edition: 1990

Authors: R. A. Markus

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This study is concerned with one, central historical problem: the nature of the changes that transformed the intellectual and spiritual horizons of the Christian world from its establishment in the fourth century to the end of the sixth. Why, for example, were the assumptions, attitudes and traditions of Gregory the Great so markedly different from those of Augustine? The End of Ancient Christianity examines how Christians, who had formerly constituted a threatened and beleaguered minority, came to define their identity in a changed context of religious respectability in which their faith had become a source of privilege, prestige and power. Professor Markus reassesses the cult of the…

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List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/31/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations



The Crisis of Identity



Introduction



A great multitude no man could number



Conversion and uncertainty



Augustine: a defence of Christian mediocrity



'Be ye perfect'



Kairoi: Christian Times and the Past



The last times



The martyrs and sacred time



Secular festivals in Christian times?



The christianisation of time



Topoi: Space and Community



Holy places and holy people



City or Desert? Two models of community



Desert and City: a blurring of frontiers



The ascetic invasion



Within sight of the end: retrospect and prospect Sources referred to Secondary literature referred to Index