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Indlæser... Cyprian and Roman Carthageaf Allen Brent
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This thoroughly researched study, written in a terse prose style, is not hagiographical in intent. Nor is it designed as an exposition of Cyprian’s theology (except for some discussion of his understanding of baptism and ecclesiology). Brent is not shy about criticizing certain aspects of Cyprian’s convictions that he describes as “quite untenable” (326).
"Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus believed fervently that his conversion experience had been a passage from the darkness of the world of Graeco-Roman paganism to his new vision of Christianity. But Cyprian's response as bishop to the Decian persecution was to be informed by the pagan culture that he had rejected so completely. His view of church order also owed much to Roman jurisprudential principles of legitimate authority exercised within a sacred boundary spatially and geographically defined. Given the highly fragmented state of the non-Christian sources for this period, Cyprian is often the only really contemporary primary source for the events through which he lived. In this book, Allen Brent contributes to our understanding both of Roman history in the mid-third century and of the enduring model of church order that developed in that period"--Provided by publisher. No library descriptions found. |
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