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There is no crime for those who have Christ : religious violence in the Christian Roman Empire / Michael Gaddis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Transformation of the classical heritage ; 39.Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 396 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 1598757881
  • 9781598757880
  • 1282357425
  • 9781282357426
  • 0520930908
  • 9780520930902
  • 9786612357428
  • 6612357428
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: There is no crime for those who have Christ.DDC classification:
  • 270.2 22
LOC classification:
  • BR143 .G33 2005eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
What has the emperor to do with the church?" : persecution and martyrdom from Diocletian to Constantine -- "The God of the martyrs refuses you" : religious violence, political discourse, and Christian identity in the century after Constantine -- An eye for an eye : religious violence in donatist Africa -- Temperata severitas : Augustine, the state, and disciplinary violence -- "There is no crime for those who have Christ" : holy men and holy violence in the late fourth and early fifth centuries -- "The monks commit many crimes" : holy violence contested -- "Sanctify thy hand by the blow" : problematizing Episcopal power -- Non iudicium sed latrocinium : of Holy Synods and robber councils.
Summary: There is no crime for those who have Christ," claimed a fifth-century zealot, neatly expressing the belief of religious extremists that righteous zeal for God trumps worldly law. This book provides an in-depth and penetrating look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, a unique period shaped by the marriage of Christian ideology and Roman imperial power
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)295117

"A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature."

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What has the emperor to do with the church?" : persecution and martyrdom from Diocletian to Constantine -- "The God of the martyrs refuses you" : religious violence, political discourse, and Christian identity in the century after Constantine -- An eye for an eye : religious violence in donatist Africa -- Temperata severitas : Augustine, the state, and disciplinary violence -- "There is no crime for those who have Christ" : holy men and holy violence in the late fourth and early fifth centuries -- "The monks commit many crimes" : holy violence contested -- "Sanctify thy hand by the blow" : problematizing Episcopal power -- Non iudicium sed latrocinium : of Holy Synods and robber councils.

There is no crime for those who have Christ," claimed a fifth-century zealot, neatly expressing the belief of religious extremists that righteous zeal for God trumps worldly law. This book provides an in-depth and penetrating look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, a unique period shaped by the marriage of Christian ideology and Roman imperial power

Print version record.

English.