The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser

The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome



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The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
Page: 224
ISBN: 9780801477874
Publisher: Cornell University Press

The work of the Christian scholar Lactantius provides an ideal lens through which to study how Rome became a Christian empire. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser shows how Lactantius' Divine Institutes—seditious in its time—responded to the emperor Diocletian's persecution and then became an important influence on Constantine the Great, Rome's first Christian emperor.The Making of a Christian Empire is the first full-length book to interpret the Divine Institutes as a historical source. Exploring Lactantius' use of theology, philosophy, and rhetorical techniques, Digeser perceives the Divine Institutes as a sophisticated proposal for a monotheistic state that intimately connected the ... MORE EBOOKS:







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