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Subject(s)

• Leo I, Pope, -461 [Browse]
• Church history—Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 [Browse]
• Christianity and culture—History—Early church, ca. 30-600 [Browse]
• Church and state—Rome [Browse]
• Rome—History—Empire, 284-476 [Browse]
• Jesus Christ—History of doctrines—Early church, ca. 30-600 [Browse]

Series

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 0920-623X ; v. 93 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-408) and index.

Contents

• Introduction to Leo the Great and the late Roman world that was his stage
• The study of Leo the Great
• Imperial regimes and the Roman Senate
• Structure of the empire in Italy and the West
• Ecclesiastical administration
• Advance of the barbarian kingdoms
• Survey of the life of Leo the Great
• The relationship between Rome and the western churches
• A controversy develops with the See of Arles in Southern Gaul
• Ecclesiastical law is debated and settled in North Africa
• Priscillianism is confronted in Spain
• The Vicariate of Illyricum
• Persecution and discipline in Italy
• The idea of justice and its bearing upon law and mercy
• Justice and its human failings
• Ecclesiastical law as the expression of justice
• The practical manifestation of justice in the application of mercy
• Suffering, compassion, and the care of the poor
• The theology of poverty, charity, and altruism
• The humanity of Christ as a model for compassion
• Assembling a christology
• Polemics shape the development of Christ's human nature
• The quality of Christ's humanity
• Christ as example
• The symmetry of justice
• Overturning the Robber Synod and preserving Christ's human nature
• Negotiating with the Imperial Court
• Enlisting the help of the bishops
• Elaboration of the Roman Primacy
• The idea of Apostolic succession and the Primacy of Rome
• The controversy over the 28th Canon
• The focus shifts to Anatolius
• Striving for unity after Chalcedon
• Eliciting the support of the eastern Imperial Court
• The apocrisiarius in Constantinople
• A renewed correspondence with Anatolius
• The 'City of God' unfolds in history
• Christian intellectuals respond to the sack of Rome in 410
• A new idea of history emerges.

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ISBN

• 9789004170520 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004170529 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008026950

OCLC

233029410

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