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- catalog abstract ""The work of the Christian scholar Lactantius provides an ideal lens through which to study how Rome became a Christian empire. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser shows how Lactantius's Divine Institutes - seditious in its time - responded to the emperor Diocletian's persecution and then became an important influence on Constantine the Great, Rome's first Christian emperor." "The Making of a Christian Empire is the first full-length book to interpret the Divine Institutes as a historical source. Exploring Lactantius's use of theology, philosophy, and rhetorical techniques, Digeser perceives the Divine Institutes as a sophisticated proposal for a monotheistic state that intimately connected the religious policies of Diocletian and Constantine, both of whom used religion to fortify and unite the Roman Empire."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11335093.
- catalog coverage "Rome Civilization.".
- catalog coverage "Rome History Empire, 284-476.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""The work of the Christian scholar Lactantius provides an ideal lens through which to study how Rome became a Christian empire. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser shows how Lactantius's Divine Institutes - seditious in its time - responded to the emperor Diocletian's persecution and then became an important influence on Constantine the Great, Rome's first Christian emperor." "The Making of a Christian Empire is the first full-length book to interpret the Divine Institutes as a historical source. Exploring Lactantius's use of theology, philosophy, and rhetorical techniques, Digeser perceives the Divine Institutes as a sophisticated proposal for a monotheistic state that intimately connected the religious policies of Diocletian and Constantine, both of whom used religion to fortify and unite the Roman Empire."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-195) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: Nicomedia: Winter 302-303 -- Conceptions of Monotheism -- Lactantius's Response -- Ch. 1. Defying the Dominate -- The Crumbling Principate: The Transformation of the Emperor -- Diocletian's Dominate: A New Style of Rule -- Lactantius's Criticisms of the Dominate -- Lactantius's Solution: A Return to the Principate -- Ch. 2. Prosecuting the Jurists -- Bringing the Provinces under Roman Law -- The Tetrarchy's Drive for Legal Uniformity -- Harmonizing Roman and Christian Law: Lactantius's Ideal State -- Ch. 3. Persuading the Philosophers -- Hermes Trismegistus: Plato's Ancient Source -- Bridging the Gap between Philosophical Monotheism and Christianity -- An Inclusive Christianity -- Ch. 4. Forging Forbearance -- Porphyry as Lactantius's Anonymous Philosopher -- Lactantius's Familiarity with the Philosophy from Oracles -- The Issue of Tolerance -- Tolerance versus Concord -- Ch. 5. Constantine and the New Rome -- Constantine and the Question of Tolerance -- Constantine's Religious Policy -- Sole Rule -- Lactantius and Constantine: A Policy of Concord -- Transforming the Constitution.".
- catalog extent "xv, 199 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0801435943".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Rome Civilization.".
- catalog spatial "Rome History Empire, 284-476.".
- catalog subject "BR65.L26 D54 2000X".
- catalog subject "Church history Primitive and early church, approximately 30-600.".
- catalog subject "Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.".
- catalog subject "Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320 Influence.".
- catalog subject "Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320. Divinae institutiones.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Nicomedia: Winter 302-303 -- Conceptions of Monotheism -- Lactantius's Response -- Ch. 1. Defying the Dominate -- The Crumbling Principate: The Transformation of the Emperor -- Diocletian's Dominate: A New Style of Rule -- Lactantius's Criticisms of the Dominate -- Lactantius's Solution: A Return to the Principate -- Ch. 2. Prosecuting the Jurists -- Bringing the Provinces under Roman Law -- The Tetrarchy's Drive for Legal Uniformity -- Harmonizing Roman and Christian Law: Lactantius's Ideal State -- Ch. 3. Persuading the Philosophers -- Hermes Trismegistus: Plato's Ancient Source -- Bridging the Gap between Philosophical Monotheism and Christianity -- An Inclusive Christianity -- Ch. 4. Forging Forbearance -- Porphyry as Lactantius's Anonymous Philosopher -- Lactantius's Familiarity with the Philosophy from Oracles -- The Issue of Tolerance -- Tolerance versus Concord -- Ch. 5. Constantine and the New Rome -- Constantine and the Question of Tolerance -- Constantine's Religious Policy -- Sole Rule -- Lactantius and Constantine: A Policy of Concord -- Transforming the Constitution.".
- catalog title "The making of a Christian empire : Lactantius & Rome / Elizabeth DePalma Digeser.".
- catalog type "text".