Doctrine and Power: Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire

in the course of the fourth century A.D., theological controversy divided Christian groups during the jap 1/2 the Roman Empire. not just was once the reality approximately God at stake, but additionally the authority of church leaders, whose legitimacy relied on their claims to symbolize that fact. during this publication, Galvao-Sobrinho argues that out of those disputes used to be born a brand new sort of church management, one within which the facility of the episcopal place of work used to be enormously elevated. the writer indicates how those disputes pressured church leaders many times to claim their orthodoxy and legitimacy—tasks that required them to mobilize their congregations and interact in motion that consistently projected their strength within the public area. those advancements have been mostly the paintings of prelates of the 1st half the fourth century, however the sort of command they inaugurated grew to become the root for a dynamic version of ecclesiastical management discovered all through overdue antiquity.

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