At the risk of Christianity. The emergence of the Christian model (4th-6th century).
PULyon| N° d'inventaire | 16140 |
| Format | 14 x 18 |
| Détails | 362 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Lyon, 2012 |
| Etat | Nine |
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Brilliant and innovative, this essay by Robert Markus is finally seeing its first French translation, after having been the subject of numerous reissues since its publication in Cambridge in 1990. Alongside the work of his colleague and friend Peter Brown, to whom the book is dedicated, Markus renews our perception of the cultural and religious changes of Late Antiquity, by examining this key moment when Christians' self-awareness shifted after the conversion of Constantine. It was around the definition of a Christian conception of the sacred (space, time, rites) that Christianity transformed into an all-powerful and universal religion. Rather than retracing the stages of Christianization in the West, Markus studies how Christians reacted to the conversion of the Empire. At the cost of a genuine identity crisis. A clear-sighted and subtle synthesis, which has no equivalent in French.
Brilliant and innovative, this essay by Robert Markus is finally seeing its first French translation, after having been the subject of numerous reissues since its publication in Cambridge in 1990. Alongside the work of his colleague and friend Peter Brown, to whom the book is dedicated, Markus renews our perception of the cultural and religious changes of Late Antiquity, by examining this key moment when Christians' self-awareness shifted after the conversion of Constantine. It was around the definition of a Christian conception of the sacred (space, time, rites) that Christianity transformed into an all-powerful and universal religion. Rather than retracing the stages of Christianization in the West, Markus studies how Christians reacted to the conversion of the Empire. At the cost of a genuine identity crisis. A clear-sighted and subtle synthesis, which has no equivalent in French.