Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 256 pages
- Published by: Routledge
- Edition: 1st Edition January 11, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0415238498
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415238496
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Book Dimensions:
8.1 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 14.2 ounces
Product Review
'This study is easily readable. This will make it valuable for students, who will no doubt also appreciate the sober balance of theory and exposition the book is ideally suited to an advanced undergraduate course. Burn's work is thoroughly commendable, and the study is recommended without hesitation.' -
Augustine Casiday, Reviews in Religion and Theology'A large part of what makes this book impressive - indeed, of what makes so many of Burns' arguments compelling - is Burns' obvious familiarity with Cyprian's corpus operum. That Burns has dedicated a significant portion of his professional life to the study of Cyprian is something that is evidenced on almost every page and in more than a few of the copious footnotes In sum, this book is to be recommended.' -
Ephemerides Theologicae Loranieases'Altogether, an important and stimulating, and thoroughly scholarly contribution to the understandingof early church history - and which deserves to have a much wider readership than early church historians only.' -
The Catholic Historical Review
Product Description
This is the first up-to-date, accessible study on the rule of Cyprian as the Bishop of Carthage in the 250s AD. Using the tools of cultural anthropology,
Cyprian the Bishop looks at the interplay between the shift in the social structures of Christian churches in third-century Roman Africa, the development of their ritual practices, and the efficacy assigned to them in changing a person's standing-not only within a community-but before God. By concentrating on social structures, J. Patout Burns, Jr. reveals the logic of Cyprian's plan, the basis for its success in his time, and the reason why it failed in later centuries.
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