Description:Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering truth and self-identification to a form of social competition and "winning over" an opponent. He demonstrates how the reception and practice of public debate, like other forms of competition in Late Antiquity, were closely tied to underlying notions of authority, community and social order.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (Volume 23). To get started finding Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (Volume 23), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
366
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
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N/A
Release
1995
ISBN
0520301390
Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (Volume 23)
Description: Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering truth and self-identification to a form of social competition and "winning over" an opponent. He demonstrates how the reception and practice of public debate, like other forms of competition in Late Antiquity, were closely tied to underlying notions of authority, community and social order.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (Volume 23). To get started finding Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (Volume 23), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.