Bishops in Flight

Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face of it, it meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of the faith and its community. But, by the fourth century, the terms o...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Barry, Jennifer
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	University of California Press 2021
Subjects:	Exile Christian Flight Displacement Athanasius of Alexandria John Chrysostom Eusebius of Nicomedia Meletius of Antioch Ecclesiastical Historians Orthodoxy and Heresy Nicene Controversy thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs
Online Access:	1004950
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