Public disputation, power, and social order in late antiquity / Richard Lim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lim, Richard, 1963- author.

Series:

Transformation of the classical heritage ; Volume 23.

Transformation of the Classical Heritage Series ; Volume 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious disputations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1995]

Summary:

Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering truth and self-identification to a form of social competition and "winning over" an opponent. He demonstrates how the reception and practice of public debate, like other forms of competition in Late Antiquity, were closely tied to underlying notions of authority, community and social order. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.

Contents:

Cover

Series Editors

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. The Diffusion of the Logos

2. Disputation, Dialectic, and Competition among Platonist Philosophers

3. Manichaeans and Public Disputation in Late Antiquity

4. Dialectic, Questioning, and Community in the Anomoean Controversy

5. Meddlesome Curiosity, Mystification, and Social Order in Late Antiquity

6. "Non in sermone regnum Dei": Fifth-Century Views on Debate at Nicaea

7. The Containment of the Logos

8. Epilogue

Appendix: Chronological Chart

Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-520-37838-5

OCLC:

1443084735