Voting about God in Early Church Councils - Hardcover

MacMullen, Ramsay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300115962 ISBN 13: 9780300115963

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2006

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Book by MacMullen Professor Ramsay

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"A wonderfully fresh look at the early Christian councils . . . both scholar and lay reader will find this volume a treasure trove to be savored and enjoyed."--Gaye Strathearn, BYU Studies -- Gaye Strathearn * BYU Studies * "Bloodthirsty bishops raining curses on their enemies storm through these pages, then step aside, humbled, allowing MacMullen's cool, sane, and immensely learned analysis to enrich our understanding of the making and fragmenting of Roman imperial Christianity."-James J. O'Donnell, author of Augustine: A New Biography -- James J. O'Donnell "By fine literary detective work, MacMullen reassembles the mobs of bishops who debated, voted, and rioted in the fifteen thousand or so early church councils, tracing the progress of Christianity from a raucous democracy to a harnessed hierarchy."-Garry Wills, Northwestern University -- Garry Wills "In MacMullen's highly original book we get a sense of what it was like to be at an early church council, how arguments ebbed and flowed, how power was wielded, how participants were intimidated and inspired."-David Brakke, Indiana University -- David Brakke "Ramsay MacMullen has written another provocative and highly original book. He shows how Christian doctrine came to be decided by the democratic votes of bishops, and how the passions that this aroused all too often led to actual violence."-Averil Cameron, Keble College, Oxford University -- Averil Cameron

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In this study, Ramsay MacMullen steps aside from the well-worn path that previous scholars have trod to explore exactly how early Christian doctrines became official. Drawing on extensive verbatim stenographic records, he analyzes the ecumenical councils from A.D. 325 to 553, in which participants gave authority to doctrinal choices by majority vote.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0300115962
• ISBN 13: 9780300115963
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184