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The purpose of the volume is to explore how specific historical and socio-cultural conditions of late antiquity shaped the development of Christian thought.The
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The death of Pope John Paul II and consequent election of Pope Benedict XVI has shed light on a political process that the world has not been privy to for almos
This volume revisits issues of empire from the perspective of Jews, Christians, and other Romans in the third to sixth centuries. Through case studies, the cont