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Book Bishops in Flight

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer Barry
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2019-04-23
  • ISBN : 0520300378
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Bishops in Flight written by Jennifer Barry and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were considered cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face, flight meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of faith and 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 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. Their stories illuminate 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.

Book Bishops in Flight

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  • Author : Jennifer Barry
  • Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
  • Release : 2020-10-09
  • ISBN : 9781013293092
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Bishops in Flight written by Jennifer Barry and published by Saint Philip Street Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Book Bishops in Flight

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer Barry
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2019-04-23
  • ISBN : 0520971809
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Bishops in Flight written by Jennifer Barry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free open access ebook is upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were considered cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face, flight meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of faith and 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 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. Their stories illuminate 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.

Book

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bishop s Boys  A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright

Download or read book The Bishop s Boys A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright written by Tom D. Crouch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reissue of this definitive biography heralds the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight. Brilliant, self-trained engineers, the Wright brothers had a unique blend of native talent, character, and family experience that perfectly suited them to the task of invention but left them ill-prepared to face a world of skeptics, rivals, and officials. Using a treasure trove of Wright family correspondence and diaries, Tom Crouch skillfully weaves the story of the airplane's invention into the drama of a unique and unforgettable family. He shows us exactly how and why these two obscure bachelors from Dayton, Ohio, were able to succeed where so many better-trained, better-financed rivals had failed.

Book On Canadian Wings

Download or read book On Canadian Wings written by Peter Pigott and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are an aviation enthusiast, history buff, or air traveller, don't miss the third in a series of photo essays on aviation in Canada, covering almost 100 years of flight by Canadians. Dramatic visuals accompany each step of aviation's advances, from Canada's first military aircraft to the Harvard II, from the earliest bush planes to the Bombardier Global Express. This comprehensive history showcases 50 aircraft. Whether famous or forgotten, all were designed, built, and/or flown by Canadians.

Book The Flying Bishop

Download or read book The Flying Bishop written by John Weller and published by Athena PressPub Company. This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As recently as the 1940s, there was only one bishop responsible for the work of the Anglican Church in almost the entire South American continent. Clearly, an area this large required somebody truly remarkable to lead the churches in it. The Rt Revd Jack Weller was a remarkable man. Here, his nephew tells the story of his life as a bishop in South America and his later work in England, with extracts from Jack's own diaries and writings giving an insight into the mind of the 'Flying Bishop'.

Book Flight

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 940 pages

Download or read book Flight written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Winged Warfare

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  • Author : William Avery Bishop
  • Publisher : McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Winged Warfare written by William Avery Bishop and published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. This book was released on 1918 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selvbiografisk beretning om oplevelser som engelsk pilot under 1. verdenskrig.

Book Church Militant

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  • Author : Paul P. Mariani
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2011-10-24
  • ISBN : 0674063171
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Church Militant written by Paul P. Mariani and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1952 the Chinese Communist Party had suppressed all organized resistance to its regime and stood unopposed, or so it has been believed. Internal party documents—declassified just long enough for historian Paul Mariani to send copies out of China—disclose that one group deemed an enemy of the state held out after the others had fallen. A party report from Shanghai marked “top-secret” reveals a determined, often courageous resistance by the local Catholic Church. Drawing on centuries of experience in struggling with the Chinese authorities, the Church was proving a stubborn match for the party. Mariani tells the story of how Bishop (later Cardinal) Ignatius Kung Pinmei, the Jesuits, and the Catholic Youth resisted the regime’s punishing assault on the Shanghai Catholic community and refused to renounce the pope and the Church in Rome. Acting clandestinely, mirroring tactics used by the previously underground CCP, Shanghai’s Catholics persevered until 1955, when the party arrested Kung and 1,200 other leading Catholics. The imprisoned believers were later shocked to learn that the betrayal had come from within their own ranks. Though the CCP could not eradicate the Catholic Church in China, it succeeded in dividing it. Mariani’s secret history traces the origins of a deep split in the Chinese Catholic community, where relations between the “Patriotic” and underground churches remain strained even today.

Book Ecclesiastical History

Download or read book Ecclesiastical History written by Sozomen and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The King   s Bishops

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  • Author : E. Crosby
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2013-09-04
  • ISBN : 1137352124
  • Pages : 652 pages

Download or read book The King s Bishops written by E. Crosby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest. Esteemed medievalist Everett U. Crosby considers new perspectives of medieval state-building and the vexed relations between secular and ecclesiastical authority.

Book History of the Church  from Its First Establishment to Our Own Times

Download or read book History of the Church from Its First Establishment to Our Own Times written by Jodocus Adolph Birkhaeuser and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Church

Download or read book History of the Church written by J. A. Birkhaeuser and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Church

Download or read book History of the Church written by Jodocus Adolph BrirkhÆuser and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medieval Boy Bishops

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  • Author : Neil Mackenzie
  • Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2011-12-01
  • ISBN : 1780880081
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book The Medieval Boy Bishops written by Neil Mackenzie and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-seventeenth century, clergyman John Gregory made a surprise discovery in Salisbury Cathedral that began to reveal the truth of the Boy Bishops. The Boy Bishops of the Middle Ages, following widespread and popular custom, supplanted the true bishops in their cathedrals for a period of time during the Christmas season.This strange and largely forgotten tradition, stretching from the early Middle Ages to the present day, gives a fascinating insight into the medieval world and its legacy. Elected by their fellows, these Boy Bishops exercised their power in cathedrals, churches and beyond, right across Europe. They controlled services, directed the clergy, enjoyed lavish entertainment, went on visitations to great noble and religious houses and received huge sums of money. However, the topsy-turvy reign of a Boy Bishop was often accompanied by bitter eclesiastical arguments, violence, civil unrest and even murder. It is a little-known fact that the Boy Bishop tradition is still alive today.The Medieval Boy Bishops will appeal to those interested in religious history, the peculiarities of the medieval world and the place of children in society. Author Neil was inspired to write the book by his passion for English literature and history. “I was fascinated by the idea of Boy Bishops,” says Neil. “I’m trying to bring back to life a largely forgotten corner of medieval history.” This book will revive interest in a fascinating but neglected area of medieval history in the same way as books such as A Very English Deceit, Longitude and The Mechanical Turk have done for more recent history.

Book Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity

Download or read book Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity written by Claudia Rapp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop—as the highest Church official in his city—from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally learned, innovative, and groundbreaking work traces this transition with a twofold aim: to deemphasize the reign of the emperor Constantine, which has traditionally been regarded as a watershed in the development of the Church as an institution, and to bring to the fore the continued importance of the religious underpinnings of the bishop's role as civic leader. Rapp rejects Max Weber’s categories of "charismatic" versus "institutional" authority that have traditionally been used to distinguish the nature of episcopal authority from that of the ascetic and holy man. Instead she proposes a model of spiritual authority, ascetic authority and pragmatic authority, in which a bishop’s visible asceticism is taken as evidence of his spiritual powers and at the same time provides the justification for his public role. In clear and graceful prose, Rapp provides a wholly fresh analysis of the changing dynamics of social mobility as played out in episcopal appointments.