Explores how social networks shaped the identity of sophists, philosophers, and Christians in the early Roman Empire. Taking a sociological focus, this book redresses a bias toward intellectual concerns, enriches understanding of the Second Sophistic and reframes the formation of Christian 'orthodoxy'.
Explores how social networks shaped the identity of sophists, philosophers, and Christians in the early Roman Empire. Taking a sociological focus, this book redresses a bias toward intellectual concerns, enriches understanding of the Second Sophistic and reframes the formation of Christian 'orthodoxy'.
Kendra Eshleman is an Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Boston College.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Inclusion and identity 2. Contesting competence: the ideal of self-determination 3. Expertise and authority in the early church 4. Defining the circle of sophists: Philostratus and the construction of the Second Sophistic 5. Becoming orthodox: heresiology as self-fashioning 6. Successions and self-definition 7. 'From such mothers and fathers': succession narratives in early Christian discourse.
Introduction 1. Inclusion and identity 2. Contesting competence: the ideal of self-determination 3. Expertise and authority in the early church 4. Defining the circle of sophists: Philostratus and the construction of the Second Sophistic 5. Becoming orthodox: heresiology as self-fashioning 6. Successions and self-definition 7. 'From such mothers and fathers': succession narratives in early Christian discourse.
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