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The intellectual world of late antique Christianity : reshaping classical traditions / edited by Lewis Ayres, Michael W. Champion, Matthew R. Crawford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ayres, Lewis, author.
- Champion, Michael W., author.
- Crawford, Matthew R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)--History.
- Knowledge, Theory of (Religion).
- Intellectual life--History--To 1500.
- Intellectual life.
- Learning and scholarship--History--To 1500.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 912 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- The Intellectual World of Late-Antique Christianity explores new perspectives on early Christian epistemology in relation to the changing discourses, institutions, and material culture of late antiquity. Early Christian modes of knowing and ordering knowledge involved complex processes of appropriation, reproduction, and reconfiguration of Jewish and classical epistemologies. This helped Christians develop cultures of interpretation and argument as textually oriented religious communities within the Roman Empire and beyond. It laid an intellectual foundation that would be built upon and modified in a variety of later contexts. Encompassing Greek, Latin, and Syriac Christianity, and an historical arc that stretches from the New Testament to Bede, this volume traces how diverse theological commitments resulted in distinctive Christian accounts of knowing. It foregrounds the myriad ways in which early Christian epistemology was embedded in earlier intellectual traditions and forms of life, and how they established norms for communal life and powerful ways of acting in the world.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Oct 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781108883559 (ebook)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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