Leo the Great and the spiritual rebuilding of a universal Rome
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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Series: | Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ;
v. 93. |
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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.