City Of Caesar City Of God

Author : Konstantin M. Klein,Johannes Wienand
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110718447

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City of Caesar, City of God by Konstantin M. Klein,Johannes Wienand Pdf

When Emperor Constantine triggered the rise of a Christian state, he opened a new chapter in the history of Constantinople and Jerusalem. In the centuries that followed, the two cities were formed and transformed into powerful symbols of Empire and Church. For the first time, this book investigates the increasingly dense and complex net of reciprocal dependencies between the imperial center and the navel of the Christian world. Imperial influence, initiatives by the Church, and projects of individuals turned Constantinople and Jerusalem into important realms of identification and spaces of representation. Distinguished international scholars investigate this fascinating development, focusing on aspects of art, ceremony, religion, ideology, and imperial rule. In enriching our understanding of the entangled history of Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity, City of Caesar, City of God illuminates the transition between Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages.

Author : Saint Augustine of Hippo,Aeterna Press
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 1627 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The City of God by Saint Augustine of Hippo,Aeterna Press Pdf

The glorious city of God is my theme in this work, which you, my dearest son Marcellinus, suggested, and which is due to you by my promise. I have undertaken its defence against those who prefer their own gods to the Founder of this city,—a city surpassingly glorious, whether we view it as it still lives by faith in this fleeting course of time, and sojourns as a stranger in the midst of the ungodly, or as it shall dwell in the fixed stability of its eternal seat, which it now with patience waits for, expecting until “righteousness shall return unto judgment,” and it obtain, by virtue of its excellence, final victory and perfect peace. A great work this, and an arduous; but God is my helper. Aeterna Press

Author : Richard Jenkyns
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780199675524

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God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination by Richard Jenkyns Pdf

God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans' visual and literary cultures and their imagination. Drawing on a vast range of ancient sources, poetry and prose, texts, and material culture from all levels of Roman society, it analyses how the Romans used, conceptualized, viewed, and moved around their city. Jenkyns pays particular attention to the other inhabitants of Rome, the gods, and investigates how the Romans experienced and encountered them, with a particular emphasis on the personal and subjective aspects of religious life. Through studying interior spaces, both secular (basilicas, colonnades, and forums) and sacred spaces (the temples where the Romans looked upon their gods) and their representation in poetry, the volume also follows the development of an architecture of the interior in the great Roman public works of the first and second centuries AD. While providing new insights into the working of the Romans' imagination, it also offers powerful challenges to some long established orthodoxies about Roman religion and cultural behaviour.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X030277471

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City of God by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1291699938

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The City of God by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822320657

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Nations, Identities, Cultures by V. Y. Mudimbe Pdf

This volume investigates the concepts of nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the context of exile. Contributors explore various theoretical issues involved in reconfiguring these concepts since the 19th century, as well as the manifestations of these issues in specific regions of the world.

Author : Augustine of Hippo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503377326

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The City of God, Vol. II (Empire Library) by Augustine of Hippo Pdf

A seminal work of Christian theology and cornerstone of Western thought, Saint Augustine wrote The City of God in 426 to refute allegations that Christianity was responsible for the fall of Rome.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : UCSD:31822023532419

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The City of God by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Author : Harry V. Jaffa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538114339

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A New Birth of Freedom by Harry V. Jaffa Pdf

When it originally appeared, A New Birth of Freedom represented a milestone in Lincoln studies, the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America's foremost scholars of American politics. Now reissued on the centenary of Jaffa’s birth with a new foreword by the esteemed Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo, this long-awaited sequel to Jaffa’s earlier classic, Crisis of the House Divided, offers a piercing examination of the political thought of Abraham Lincoln and the themes of self-government, equality, and statesmanship on the eve of the Civil War. “Four decades ago, Harry Jaffa offered powerful insights on the Lincoln-Douglas debates in his Crisis of the House Divided. In this long-awaited sequel, he picks up the threads of that earlier study in this stimulating new interpretation of the showdown conflict between slavery and freedom in the election of 1860 and the secession crisis that followed. Every student of Lincoln needs to read and ponder this book.”— James M. McPherson, Princeton University “A masterful synthesis and analysis of the contending political philosophies on the eve of the Civil War. A magisterial work that arrives after a lifetime of scholarship and reflection—and earns our gratitude as well as our respect.”— Kirkus Reviews “The essence of Jaffa's case—meticulously laid out over nearly 500 pages—is that the Constitution is not, as Lincoln put it, a 'free love arrangement' held together by passing fancy. It is an indissoluble compact in which all men consent to be governed by majority, provided their inalienable rights are preserved.”— Bret Stephens; The Wall Street Journal

Author : Paul Magdalino
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004700765

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Roman Constantinople in Byzantine Perspective by Paul Magdalino Pdf

This book studies the research perspective in which the literary inhabitants of Late Antique and medieval Constantinople remembered its past and conceptualised its existence as a Greek city that was the political capital of a Christian Roman state. Initial reactions to Constantine’s foundation noted its novel Christian orientation, but the memorial mode of writing about the city that developed from the sixth century recollected the traditional civic cultural heritage that Constantinople claimed both as the New Rome, and as the continuation of ancient Byzantion. This research culture increasingly became the preserve of the imperial bureaucracy, and focused on the city’s sculptured monuments as bearers of eschatological meaning. Yet from the tenth century, writers progressively preferred to define the wonder and spectacle of Constantinople in the aesthetic mode of urban praise inherited from late antiquity, developing the notion of the city as a cosmic theatre of excellence.

Author : Etienne Gilson,Remi Brague
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813233253

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The Metamorphoses of the City of God by Etienne Gilson,Remi Brague Pdf

Étienne Gilson (1884-1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy, as well as a scholar of medieval philosophy. In 1946 he attained the distinction of being elected an "Immortal" (member) of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959 and 1964. The appearance of Gilson's Metamorphosis of the City of God, which were originally delivered as lectures at the University of Louvain, Belgium, in the Spring of 1952, coincided with the first steps toward what would become the European Union. The appearance of this English translation coincides with the upheaval of Brexit. Gilson traces the various attempts of thinkers through the centuries to describe Europe's soul and delimit its parts. The Scots, Catalonians, Flemings, and probably others may nod in agreement in Gilson's observation on how odd would be a Europe composed of the political entities that existed two and a half centuries ago. Those who think the European Union has lost its soul may not be comforted by the difficulty thinkers have had over the centuries in defining that soul. Indeed the difficulties that have thus far prevented integrating Turkey into the EU confirm Gilson's description of the conundrum involved even in distinguishing Europe's material components. And yet, the endeavor has succeeded, so that the problem of shared ideals remain inescapable. One wonders which of the thinkers in the succession studied by Gilson might grasp assent and illuminate the EU's path.

Author : Aurelius Augustine
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520525680

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The City of God, Volumes I and II by Aurelius Augustine Pdf

One of Augustine's most famous works, this book tells of the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the holy and righteous City of God from the ashes. While building a utopia much like The Republic does, Augustine uses sound theology to build the foundations of the cities morals and lawful authority. Many theologies, especially within the Catholic tradition, owe their beginnings to the teachings of Augustine and this work is one of the starts of the field.

Author : T. P. Wiseman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691189086

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The House of Augustus by T. P. Wiseman Pdf

A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the Palatine Caesar Augustus (63 BC–AD 14), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the Palatine Hill, the place from which the word “palace” originates. A startling reassessment of textual and archaeological evidence, The House of Augustus demonstrates that Augustus was never an emperor in any meaningful sense of the word, that he never had a palace, and that the so-called "Casa di Augusto" excavated on the Palatine was a lavish aristocratic house destroyed by the young Caesar in order to build the temple of Apollo. Exploring the Palatine from its first occupation to the present, T. P. Wiseman proposes a reexamination of the "Augustan Age," including much of its literature. Wiseman shows how the political and ideological background of Augustus' rise to power offers a radically different interpretation of the ancient evidence about the Augustan Palatine. Taking a long historical perspective in order to better understand the topography, Wiseman considers the legendary stories of Rome’s origins—in particular Romulus' foundation and inauguration of the city on the summit of the Palatine. He examines the new temple of Apollo and the piazza it overlooked, as well as the portico around it with its library used as a hall for Senate meetings, and he illustrates how Commander Caesar, who became Caesar Augustus, was the champion of the Roman people against an oppressive oligarchy corrupting the Republic. A decisive intervention in a critical debate among ancient historians and archaeologists, The House of Augustus recalibrates our views of a crucially important period and a revered public space.

Author : Jonas Idestrom
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608991082

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For the Sake of the World by Jonas Idestrom Pdf

The church exists for the sake of the world. The crucial ecclesiological question that this book raises is How? How does the church exist for sake of the world? One can describe the theological reflections in this book as a form of concrete ecclesiology--critical theological reflections on the way the church is manifested in social and historical contexts as a social body. By using concepts like body, queer, human rights, practices, social process, and space, the manifestations of the concrete church are critically and constructively analyzed from a theological perspective. The arguments in the articles were presented at a symposium in Sweden. The purpose of the symposium was not to reach consensus but to stimulate creative and critical discussions concerning theology, politics and the identity of the church with a focus on Church of Sweden. American theologian William T. Cavanaugh, who has made himself known as a distinct voice in the discussion of ecclesiology and politics, participated and contributes with critical and constructive reflections on the relationship between church and state. This book offers important arguments and reflections into the discussion on ecclesiology and politics that has relevance far beyond the Swedish context. Contributors: JONAS IDESTR...M, WILLIAM T. CAVANAUGH, ARNE RASMUSSON, HENRIK WIDMARK, G...RAN GUNNER, NINNA EDGARDH, ANTJE JACKELƒN, and OLA SIGURDSON.

Author : Bryan Litfin
Publisher : Revell
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493438792

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Caesar's Lord (Constantine’s Empire Book #3) by Bryan Litfin Pdf

After more than a decade of tumult, Roman warrior Rex and his aristocratic wife, Flavia, are thankful to the God they serve for the peaceful life they are living in the city of Alexandria. But with the Empire in flux, it cannot last. When Rex is called away to serve Constantine in his fight against Licinius, Flavia's loneliness and longing for a baby lead her down the road of temptation. Perhaps one of Egypt's gods will grant her conception? As battles rage both within and without, Rex and Flavia will have to rely on God's forgiveness and protection if they are to survive the trials to come. Their adventures sweep them into the great events of the ancient church, including the forging of the Nicene Creed, terrible murders within the imperial family, the quest for the true cross of Christ in Jerusalem, and the end of pagan Rome as a new Christian empire dawns. Bryan Litfin brings his epic Constantine's Empire series to a thrilling close with this dramatic tale of struggle and redemption.