Leo the Great and the spiritual rebuilding of a universal Rome

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wessel, Susan
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 93.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to Leo the Great and the late Roman world that was his stage
  • The study of Leo the Great
  • Imperial regimes and the Roman Senate
  • Structure of the empire in Italy and the West
  • Ecclesiastical administration
  • Advance of the barbarian kingdoms
  • Survey of the life of Leo the Great
  • The relationship between Rome and the western churches
  • A controversy develops with the See of Arles in Southern Gaul
  • Eclesiastical law is debated and settled in North Africa
  • Priscillianis misconfronted in Spain
  • The Vicariate of Illyricum
  • Persecution and discipline in Italy
  • The idea ofjustice and its bearing upon law and mercy
  • Justice and its human failings
  • Ecclesiastical law as the expression of justice
  • The practical manifestation ofjustice in the application of mercy
  • Suffering, compassion, and the care of the poor
  • The theology of poverty, charity, and altruism
  • The humanity of Christ as a model for compassion
  • Assembling a christology
  • Polemics shape the development of Christ's human nature
  • The quality of Christ's humanity
  • Christ as example
  • The symmetry of justice
  • Overturning the Robber Synod and preserving Christ's human nature
  • Negotiating with the Imperial Court
  • Enlisting the help of the bishops
  • Elaboration of the Roman Primacy
  • The idea of Apostolic succession and the Primacy of Rome
  • The controversy over the 28th Canon
  • The focus shifts to Anatolius
  • Striving for unity after Chalcedon
  • Eliciting the support of the eastern Imperial Court
  • The apocrisiarius in Constantinople
  • Arenewed correspondence with Anatolius
  • The'City of God' unfolds in history
  • Christian intellectuals respond to the sack of Rome in 410
  • Anewidea of his Tory emerges.