TY - BOOK ID - 2972159 TI - Holy bishops in Late Antiquity : the nature of Christian leadership in an age of transition PY - 2005 VL - 37 SN - 0520242963 9780520242968 PB - Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California press, DB - UniCat KW - Bishops KW - Church history KW - Evêques KW - Eglise KW - Histoire KW - 262.12 <37> KW - Episcopaat: aartsbisschop; primaat; bisschop; metropoliet; patriarch; exarch--Rome. Oud-Italië KW - Bishops. KW - Church history. KW - Religion KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Christianity KW - 262.12 <37> Episcopaat: aartsbisschop; primaat; bisschop; metropoliet; patriarch; exarch--Rome. Oud-Italië KW - Evêques KW - Apostolic Church KW - Church, Apostolic KW - Early Christianity KW - Early church KW - Primitive and early church KW - Primitive Christianity KW - Fathers of the church KW - Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) KW - Archbishops KW - Clergy KW - Major orders KW - Metropolitans KW - Orders, Major KW - Chaplains, Bishops' KW - Episcopacy KW - Rome KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. KW - Bishops - Rome KW - Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Antiquité KW - Theodorus Syceota KW - Synesius Cyrenaeus ep. KW - Église KW - Évêques KW - 30-600 (Église primitive) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2972159 AB - Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop-as the highest Church official in his city-from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally learned, innovative, and groundbreaking work traces this transition with a twofold aim: to deemphasize the reign of the emperor Constantine, which has traditionally been regarded as a watershed in the development of the Church as an institution, and to bring to the fore the continued importance of the ER -