02389nam a22003737a 4500 1004950.0 KnowledgeUnlatched 20210303104852.0 m o d cr u|||||||||| 210129p20192020cau o u00| u eng d BiblioBoard Bishops in Flight Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity / Jennifer Barry. 9780520971806 https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.69 https://library.biblioboard.com/ext/api/media/1c1966c4-efca-464d-9bec-fb3d5471fd84/assets/thumbnail.jpg ScCtBLL ScCtBLL Barry, Jennifer author. University of California Press, 1 online resource (1 p.) Access copy available to the general public. Unrestricted star Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face of it, it meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of the faith and its community. But, by the fourth century, the terms of persecution changed as Christianity became the favored cult of the Roman Empire. Prominent Christians who fled and hence survived became founders and influencers of Christianity over time. Bishops in Flight examines the various ways these episcopal leaders both appealed to and altered the discourse of Christian flight to defend their status as purveyors of Christian truth even when their exiles appeared to condemn them. It illuminates how profoundly Christian authors deployed theological discourse and the rhetoric of heresy to respond to the phenomenal political instability of the fourth and fifth centuries. Description based on print version record. Luminos Religion / Ancient bisacsh History / Ancient bisacsh History Electronic books. Is found in: Knowledge Unlatched https://openresearchlibrary.org/module/2774bc74-146a-484f-a7ba-ab1d6a09bbfb https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/1c1966c4-efca-464d-9bec-fb3d5471fd84 View this content on Open Research Library. 0 32792 32792 0 0 lcc 0 0 DL DL OA 2021-03-03 0 2021-03-03 https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/1c1966c4-efca-464d-9bec-fb3d5471fd84 2021-03-03 EBOOK