Crisis of Empire: Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late by Phil Booth PDF

By Phil Booth

This publication specializes in the makes an attempt of 3 ascetics—John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus Confessor—to make sure the Church’s energy and position in the course of a interval of profound problem, because the japanese Roman empire suffered critical reversals within the face of Persian after which Islamic growth. through announcing visions which reconciled long-standing highbrow tensions among asceticism and Church, those authors validated the framework for his or her next emergence as Constantinople's so much vociferous spiritual critics, their alliance with the Roman popes, and their radical rejection of imperial interference in issues of the religion. located in the broader non secular currents of the fourth to 7th centuries, this publication throws new gentle at the nature not just of the holy guy in overdue antiquity, but additionally of the Byzantine Orthodoxy that may emerge within the center a while, and that's nonetheless significant to the church buildings of Greece and jap Europe.

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