The politics of heresy in Ambrose of Milan : community and consensus in late-antique Christianity /

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Author / Creator:	Williams, Michael Stuart, 1977- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Description:	1 online resource (356 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Ambrose, -- Saint, Bishop of Milan, -- -397. Ambrose, -- Saint, Bishop of Milan, -- -397. Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600. Christian heresies -- Early church. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13540698

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ISBN:	9781108523561 1108523560 9781108517607 1108517609 9781139094658 1139094653 9781107019461 110701946X
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Summary:	Ambrose of Milan is famous above all for his struggle with, and triumph over, 'Arian' heresy. Yet, almost all of the evidence comes from Ambrose's own writings, and from pious historians of the next generation who represented him as a champion of orthodoxy. This detailed study argues instead that an 'Arian' opposition in Milan was largely conjured up by Ambrose himself, lumping together critics and outsiders in order to secure and justify his own authority. Along with new interpretations of Ambrose's election as bishop, his controversies over the faith, and his clashes with the imperial court, this book provides a new understanding of the nature and significance of heretical communities in Late Antiquity. In place of rival congregations inflexibly committed to doctrinal beliefs, it envisages a world of more fluid allegiances in which heresy - but also consensus - could be a matter of deploying the right rhetorical frame.
Other form:	Print version: Williams, Michael Stuart. Politics of heresy in Ambrose of Milan. Community and consensus in Late Antique Christianity. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2017 9781107019461

Table of Contents:

Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Strange Death of â#x80;#x9C;Arianâ#x80;#x9D; Milan
Chapter 1 Making Distinctions: Christian Identity and Community in Late Antiquity
Chapter 2 A Tale of Two Bishops: Auxentius of Milan and the Election of Ambrose
Chapter 3 Framing the Faith: Aquileia, De Fide and the Rhetoric of Unity
Chapter 4 Manufacturing Consensus: Communities, Leaders and the First Basilica Crisis
Chapter 5 Popular Appeal: Unity and Authority in the Second Basilica CrisisConclusion: Waiting for the Arians
Bibliography
Index of Modern Authors

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