Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia
- Becoming ChristianThe Conversion of Roman CappadociaRaymond Van DamIn a richly textured investigation of the transformation of Cappadocia during the fourth century
- Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia examines the local impact of Christianity on traditional Greek and Roman society
- The Cappadocians Basil of Caesarea
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nazianzus
- And Eunomius of Cyzicus were influential participants in intense arguments over doctrinal orthodoxy and heresy
- In his discussion of these prominent churchmen Raymond Van Dam explores the new options that theological controversies now made available for enhancing personal prestige and acquiring wider reputations throughout the Greek East
- Ancient Christianity was more than theology
- Liturgical practices
- Moral strictures
| Christian | The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia examines the local impact of Christianity on traditional Greek and Roman society The Cappadocians Basil of Caesarea Gregory of Nyssa Gregory of Nazianzus and Eunomius of Cyzicus were influential participants in intense arguments over doctrinal orthodoxy and heresy In his discussion of these prominent churchmen Raymond Van Dam explores the new options that theological controversies now made available for enhancing personal prestige and acquiring wider reputations throughout the Greek East Ancient Christianity was more than theology liturgical practices moral strictures or ascetic lifestyles The coming of Christianity offered families and communities in Cappadocia and Pontus a history built on biblical and ecclesiastical traditions a history that justified distinctive lifestyles legitimated the prominence of bishops and clerics and replaced older myths Christianity presented a common language of biblical stories and legends about martyrs that allowed educated bishops to communicate with ordinary believers It provided convincing autobiographies through which people could make sense of the vicissitudes of their lives The transformation of Roman Cappadocia was a paradigm of the disruptive consequences that accompanied conversion to Christianity in the ancient world Through vivid accounts of Cappadocians as preachers theologians and historians Becoming Christian highlights the social and cultural repercussions of the formation of new orthodoxies in theology history language and personal identity Raymond Van Dam is Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of the companion volumes and both also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press 2003 264 pages 6 x 9ISBN 978 0 8122 3738 2 Cloth 59 95s 39 00 World Rights Classics ReligionShort |
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| Copy | Raymond Van Dam investigates the transformation of Cappadocia a Roman province in central Asia Minor into a Christian society Through vivid accounts of Cappadocians as preachers theologians and historians Becoming Christian highlights the disruptive social and cultural consequences of the formation of new orthodoxies in theology history language and personal identity in the ancient world |
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