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Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christianity in late antiquity and its flourishing in the medieval world. In asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, Averil Cameron turns to the development of Christian discourse over the first to sixth centuries A.D., investigating the discourses essential characteristics, its effects on existing forms of communication, and its eventual preeminence. Scholars of late antiquity and general readers interested in this crucial historical period will be intrigued by her exploration of these influential changes in modes of communication.The emphasis that Christians placed on language--writing, talking, and preaching--made possible the formation of a powerful and indeed a totalizing discourse, argues the author. Christian discourse was sufficiently flexible to be used as a public and political instrument, yet at the same time to be used to express private feelings and emotion. Embracing the two opposing poles of logic and mystery, it contributed powerfully to the gradual acceptance of Christianity and the faiths transformation from the enthusiasm of a small sect to an institutionalized world religion.

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title:Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire : The Development of Christian Discourse Sather Classical Lectures ; V. 55
author:Cameron, Averil.
publisher:University of California Press
isbn10 | asin:0520089235
print isbn13:9780520089235
ebook isbn13:9780585139678
language:English
subjectChristian literature, Early--Greek authors--History and criticism, Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600, Christianity and other religions--Greek, Christianity and other religions--Roman, Greec
publication date:1991
lcc:BR67.C26 1991eb
ddc:270.1
subject:Christian literature, Early--Greek authors--History and criticism, Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600, Christianity and other religions--Greek, Christianity and other religions--Roman, Greec
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SATHER CLASSICAL LECTURES
Volume Fifty-five
Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire
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St Antony and St Paul the Hermit in the desert Italian school seventeenth - photo 2
St. Antony and St. Paul the Hermit in the desert. Italian school,
seventeenth century. (Private collection. Photograph:
Courtauld Institute of Art)
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Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire
The Development of Christian Discourse
Averil Cameron
University of California Press
BERKELEY LOS ANGELES LONDON
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University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
1991 by
The Regents of the University of California
First Paperback Printing 1994
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cameron, Averil. Christianity and the rhetoric of empire : the development of
Christian discourse / Averil Cameron.
p. cm.(Sather classical lectures ; v. 55)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-520-08923-5 (alk. paper) 1. Christian literature, EarlyGreek authorsHistory and
criticism. 2. TheologyEarly church, ca. 30600. 3. Christianity
and other religions, Greek. 4. Christianity and other religions,
Roman. 5. GreeceReligion. 6. RomeReligion. 7. Church
historyPrimitive and early church, ca. 30600. I. Title. II. Series.
BR67.C26 1991 270.1dc20Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5Picture 690-39376
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Page v
For Han Drijvers
The silence of eternity
Interpreted by love.
Page vii
Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
List of Abbreviations
xv
Introduction
1
1
How Many Rhetorics?
15
2.
Showing and Telling
47
3.
Stories People Want
89
4.
The Power over the Past
120
5.
The Rhetoric of Paradox
155
6.
Toward a New Representation
189
Envoi
222
Bibliography
231
General Index
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