The Demonic In The Political Thought Of Eusebius Of Caesarea
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The Demonic in the Political Thought of Eusebius of Caesarea
Author | : Hazel Johannessen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198787242 |
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"The Demonic in the Political Thought of Eusebius of Caesarea" explores how Eusebius of Caesarea's ideas about demons interacted with and helped to shape his thought on other topics, particularly political topics. Hazel Johannessen builds on and complements recent work on early Christian and early modern demonology. Eusebius' political thought has long drawn the attention of scholars who have identified in some of his works the foundations of later Byzantine theories of kingship. However, Eusebius' political thought has not previously been examined in the light of his views on demons. Moreover, despite frequent references to demons throughout many of Eusebius' works, there has been no comprehensive study of Eusebius' views on demons, until now, as expressed throughout a range of his works. The originality of this study lies both in an initial examination of Eusebius' views on demons and their place in his cosmology, and in the application of the insights derived from this to consideration of his political thought. As a result of this new perspective, Johannessen challenges scholars' traditional characterization of Eusebius as a triumphal optimist. Instead, she draws attention to his concerns about a continuing demonic threat, capable of disrupting humankind's salvation, and presents Eusebius as a more cautious figure than the one familiar to late antique scholarship. - back of book
The Demonic in the Political Thought of Eusebius of Caesarea
Author | : Hazel Johannessen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2016-09-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780191091049 |
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The Demonic in the Political Thought of Eusebius of Caesarea explores how Eusebius of Caesarea's ideas about demons interacted with and helped to shape his thought on other topics, particularly political topics Hazel Johannessen builds on and complements recent work on early Christian and early modern demonology. Eusebius' political thought has long drawn the attention of scholars who have identified in some of his works the foundations of later Byzantine theories of kingship. However, Eusebius' political thought has not previously been examined in the light of his views on demons. Moreover, despite frequent references to demons throughout many of Eusebius' works, there has been no comprehensive study of Eusebius' views on demons, until now, as expressed throughout a range of his works. The originality of this study lies both in an initial examination of Eusebius' views on demons and their place in his cosmology, and in the application of the insights derived from this to consideration of his political thought. As a result of this new perspective, Johannessen challenges scholars' traditional characterization of Eusebius as a triumphal optimist. Instead, she draws attention to his concerns about a continuing demonic threat, capable of disrupting humankind's salvation, and presents Eusebius as a more cautious figure than the one familiar to late antique scholarship.
The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea
Author | : Young Richard Kim |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2021-01-07 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 9781108427746 |
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Demonstrate the profound legacy of The Council of Nicaea with fresh, sometimes provocative, but always intellectually rich ideas.
Social Control in Late Antiquity
Author | : Kate Cooper,Jamie Wood |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2020-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108479394 |
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Explores how in late antiquity women, slaves, and children claimed agency in small-scale communities despite intimidation by the powerful.
Demons in Late Antiquity
Author | : Eva Elm,Nicole Hartmann |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110630626 |
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Since the perception of demons in antiquity depended on particular cultural and religious milieus, the authors in this volume take into view various texts – ranging from amulets, spells, apocalypses, martyrdom literature to hagiography – and focus specifically on literary aspects of the transformation of demons and their contextualization. Are specific conceptions of demons characteristic for a certain genre or, rather, for particular religious contexts, so that they appear as topoi independent of genre? Do certain representations of demons prevail in pagan, Jewish and Christian circles alike, irrespective of religious background? How do notions of demons function in apocalypses, hymns, hagiographies or texts from healing procedures and what interdependencies of genre and social context can be traced? These questions are analysed from diverse disciplinary perspectives that offer some fresh and surprising answers.
Dreams Memory and Imagination in Byzantium
Author | : Bronwen Neil,Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2018-08-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004375710 |
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This collection of studies on Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium reveals the distinctive and important roles of memory, imagination and dreams in the Byzantine court, the proto-Orthodox church and broader society from Constantinople to Syria and beyond
Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity
Author | : María Pilar García Ruiz,Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2021-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004446922 |
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In this volume, nine contributions deal with the ways in which imperial power was exercised in the fourth century AD, paying particular attention to how it was articulated and manipulated by means of literary strategies and iconographic programmes.
Simon of Samaria and the Simonians
Author | : M. David Litwa |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2024-03-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567712981 |
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Who were the Simonians? Beginning in the mid-second century CE, heresiologists depicted them as licentious followers of the first gnostic, a supposedly Samarian self-deifier called Simon, who was thought to practice magic and became known as the father of all heresies. Litwa examines the Simonians in their own literature and in the literature used to refute and describe them. He begins with Simonian primary sources, namely The Declaration of Great Power (embedded in the anonymous Refutation of All Heresies) and The Concept of Our Great Power (Nag Hammadi codex VI,4). Litwa argues that both are early second-century products of Simonian authors writing in Alexandria or Egypt. Litwa then moves on to examine the heresiological sources related to the Simonians (Justin, the book of Acts, Irenaeus, the author of the Refutation of All Heresies, Pseudo-Tertullian, Epiphanius, and Filaster). He shows how closely connected Justin's report is to the portrait of Simon in Acts, and offers an extensive exegesis and analysis of Simonian theology and practice based on the reports of Irenaeus and the Refutator. Finally, Litwa examines Simonianism in novelistic sources, namely the Acts of Peter and the Pseudo-Clementines. By the time these sources were written, Simon had become the father of all heresies. Accordingly, virtually any heresy could be attributed to Simon. As a result-despite their alluring portraits of Simon-these sources are mostly unusable for the historical study of the Simonian Christian movement. Litwa concludes with a historical profile of the Simonian movement in the second and third centuries. The book features appendices which contain Litwa's own translations of primary Simonian texts.