TY - BOOK ID - 2926993 TI - The imperial cult and the development of church order : concepts and images of authority in paganism and early Christianity before the Age of Cyprian PY - 1999 VL - 45 SN - 0920623X SN - 9004114203 9004313125 9789004114203 9789004313125 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Church polity KW - Emperor worship KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Eglise KW - Culte impérial KW - Christianisme KW - History KW - Roman. KW - Gouvernement KW - Histoire KW - Relations KW - Religion romaine KW - Roman KW - 27 <37> KW - -Church polity KW - -Emperor worship KW - -Emperors KW - Worship, Emperor KW - Apotheosis KW - Cults KW - Kings and rulers KW - Christian sects KW - Christianity KW - Church government KW - Ecclesiastical polity KW - Polity, Ecclesiastical KW - Church KW - Polity (Religion) KW - Syncretism (Christianity) KW - Religions KW - Kerkgeschiedenis--Rome. Oud-Italië KW - -Cult KW - Religious aspects KW - Government KW - Polity KW - -Kerkgeschiedenis--Rome. Oud-Italië KW - -27 <37> KW - Culte impérial KW - Emperor worship, Roman KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. KW - Rome KW - Christianity. KW - Church polity. KW - Emperor worship. KW - Interfaith relations. KW - Romans KW - Emperors KW - Church history KW - Religion. KW - Cult KW - Rome (Empire) KW - Rim KW - Roman Empire KW - Roman Republic KW - Romi (Empire) KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Italy KW - Church polity - History - Early church, ca 30-600 KW - Emperor worship - Rome KW - Christianity and other religions - Roman UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2926993 AB - Recent studies have re-assessed Emperor worship as a genuinely religious response to the metaphysics of social order. Brent argues that Augustus' revolution represented a genuinely religious reformation of Republican religion that had failed in its metaphysical objectives. Against this backcloth, Luke, John the Seer, Clement, Ignatius and the Apologists refashioned Christian theology as an alternative answer to that metaphysical failure. Callistus and Pseudo-Hippolytus gave different responses to Severan images of imperial power. The early, Monarchian theology of the Trinity was thus to become a reflection of imperial culture and its justification that was later to be articulated both in Neo-Platonism, and in Cyprian's view of episcopal Order. Contra-cultural theory is employed as a sociological model to examine the interaction between developing Pagan and Christian social order. ER -