{"product_id":"bishops-in-flight-exile-and-displacement-in-late-antiquity-9780520300378","title":"Bishops in Flight  Exile and Displacement in Late","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA free open access ebook is upon publication. Learn more atwww.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 Flightexamines 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent contribution to our understanding of a period rife with theologico-political competition that resulted in numerous, complex situations of episcopal displacement.\" * Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"This slim, elegant volume constitutes a noteworthy and welcome contribution to our understanding of exilic discourse and the construction of the figure of the bishop in the fourth and fifth centuries. A stimulating read.\" * Plekos *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Barry is an excellent guide on how to read late antique polemic texts.…this enjoyable book fully achieves its objective of showing why ‘Tertullian's critique…was eventually replaced by Athanasius' promotion of the bishop in flight’. It was through telling the right exile stories, at the right place, at the right time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Early Medieval Europe *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e The Discourse of Flight\u003cbr\u003e Explorations of Exile\u003cbr\u003e Episcopal Exile\u003cbr\u003e Models of Exile\u003cbr\u003e Heresiology and Exile\u003cbr\u003e Episcopal Exile and Displacement\u003cbr\u003e Outline of Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Athanasius of Alexandria in Flight\u003cbr\u003e How to Construct a Model City: \u003ci\u003eAlexandria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If These Walls Could Talk: \u003ci\u003eDefense Before Constantius\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Wall-Less Desert: \u003ci\u003eDefense of His Flight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Model City without Walls: \u003ci\u003eLife of Antony\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. How to Return from Flight\u003cbr\u003e How to Rehabilitate a Failed Bishop: Gregory of Nazianzus\u003cbr\u003e How to Construct a Model City: Constantinople\u003cbr\u003e A Model Exile: In Praise of Basil the Great\u003cbr\u003e A Model Return: In Praise of Athanasius\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. John Chrysostom in Flight\u003cbr\u003e A Man in Flight: \u003ci\u003eJohn Chrysostom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How to Construct a Model City: \u003ci\u003eAntioch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bishops Who Die in Flight: \u003ci\u003eMeletius of Antioch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How Not to Flee: \u003ci\u003eTheophilus of Alexandria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bishops Who Do Not Return\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. To Rehabilitate and Return a Bishop in Flight\u003cbr\u003e How to Diagnose Exile: \u003ci\u003ePs.-Martyrius’s Funerary Speech\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How to Interpret Exile: \u003ci\u003ePalladius of Helenopolis’s Dialogue on the\u003cbr\u003e Life of John Chrysostom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How to Return from Exile: Athanasius and John Chrysostom\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. To Condemn a Bishop in Flight\u003cbr\u003e How to Condemn a Model City: Nicomedia\u003cbr\u003e An Unorthodox Return from Flight: Eusebius of Nicomedia\u003cbr\u003e How to Rehabilitate a Bishop: Philostorgius of Cappadocia’s\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcclesiastical History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How to Condemn a Model Exile: Socrates of Constantinople’s\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcclesiastical History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How to Rehabilitate a Condemned City: Theodoret of Cyrrhus’s\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcclesiastical History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Remembering Exile\u003cbr\u003e Remembering a Not-So-Model City: Antioch\u003cbr\u003e Martyrs and Bishops in Flight\u003cbr\u003e How to Remember Orthodox Flight: Sozomen of Constantinople’s\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcclesiastical History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Competing Memories: Socrates and Sozomen\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402912899415,"sku":"9780520300378","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520300378.jpg?v=1730481825","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bishops-in-flight-exile-and-displacement-in-late-antiquity-9780520300378","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}