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Theodoret’s People sheds new light on religious clashes of the mid-fifth century regarding the nature (or natures) of Christ. Adam M. Schor focuses on Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus, his Syrian allies, and his opponents, led by Alexandrian bishops Cyril and Dioscorus. Although both sets of clerics adhered to the Nicene creed, their contrasting theological statements led to hostilities, violence, and the permanent fracturing of the Christian community. Schor closely examines council transcripts, correspondence, and other records of communication. Using social network theory, he argues that Theodoret’s doctrinal coalition was actually a meaningful community, bound by symbolic words and traditions, riven with internal rivalries, and embedded in a wider world of elite friendship and patronage.
Price: $85.00
Pages: 360
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage
Publication Date:
17 May 2011
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520268623
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
“Makes a major contribution to our understanding of late-antique Roman society.”
Adam M. Schor is Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Carolina.
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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Theodoret and His Antiochene Clerical Network
1. Traces of a Network: Friendship, Doctrine, and Clerical Communication, 423–451
2. Shape of a Network: Antiochene Relational Patterns
3. Roots of a Network: Theodoret on the Antiochene Clerical Heritage
4. Ephesus and After: Leadership, Doctrinal Crisis and the Transformation of the Antiochene Network
5. Forging Community: Theodoret’s Network and its Fall
Part II. Theodoret and Late Roman Networks of Patronage
6. Mediating Bishops: Patronage Roles and Relations in the Fifth Century
7. The Irreplaceable Theodoret: Patronage Performance and Social Strategy
8. Patronage, Human and Divine: The Social Dynamics of Theodoret’s Christology
Epilogue: The Council of Chalcedon and the Antiochene Legacy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Theodoret and His Antiochene Clerical Network
1. Traces of a Network: Friendship, Doctrine, and Clerical Communication, 423–451
2. Shape of a Network: Antiochene Relational Patterns
3. Roots of a Network: Theodoret on the Antiochene Clerical Heritage
4. Ephesus and After: Leadership, Doctrinal Crisis and the Transformation of the Antiochene Network
5. Forging Community: Theodoret’s Network and its Fall
Part II. Theodoret and Late Roman Networks of Patronage
6. Mediating Bishops: Patronage Roles and Relations in the Fifth Century
7. The Irreplaceable Theodoret: Patronage Performance and Social Strategy
8. Patronage, Human and Divine: The Social Dynamics of Theodoret’s Christology
Epilogue: The Council of Chalcedon and the Antiochene Legacy
Notes
Bibliography
Index