Patience and/or Politics
Augustine and the Crisis at Calama, 408-409
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4065811 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Iver Kaufman (0000-0002-6446-1506, University of Richmond, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-35 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Vigiliae Christianae (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-6032 • E-ISSN: 1570-0720 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157007203762696261 |
| OpenAlex | W2061078251 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Few scholars would quarrel with Ernst Dassmann's observation that early Christian reserve toward the political cultures of antiquity-a mixture of deference and indifference, which only occasionally gave way to hostilityturned Christians' outcast status into something of a virtue.1 Still fewer are likely to dispute the assertion that influential fourth-century Christians unreservedly welcomed the changes that came with Constantine and anticipated the Christianization of imperial, if not also local, politics.2 But evaluations of Augustine's enthusiasm later that century and early the next never fail now to elicit disagreement. From the time he left his political ambitions in Milan and returned to Africa as a servus Dei until the news
Assertion · Belligerent · Christianity · Christianization · Deference · Enthusiasm · Paganism · Patience · Political science · Politics · Theology · Virtue · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Byzantine Studies and History · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |