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Title

John Rufus and the world vision of anti-Chalcedonian culture / Jan-Eric Steppa.

Author

Steppa, Jan-Eric.

Publication

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2005.

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Description

xxxviii, 196 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"The hagiographic works of the Palestinian monk John Rufus, a priest at Antioch and a disciple of the great anti-Chalcedonian leader Peter the Iberian at Gaza, are the main sources for our knowledge of the opposition to the Council of Chalcedon within the Eastern Roman Empire during the fifth century. There are, in all, three works by Rufus which are preserved, each contributing in its own way to our understanding of the underlying motives behind the anti-Chalcedonian movement: the Life of Peter the Iberian, the Commemoration of the Death of Theodosius, and the Pleropheries." "The present study is an attempt to read these hagiographic works of John Rufus in search for the specific cultural idiom that once made his texts meaningful as communicative acts. Through these texts, we encounter a culture that internally identified itself on the basis of the self-confident claim of walking in the paths of the holy fathers."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Gorgias dissertations ; 4. Early Christian studies

Uniform Title

• Gorgias dissertations ; 4.
• Gorgias dissertations. Early Christian studies.

Alternative Title

John Rufus

Subject

• John Rufus, Bishop of Maiuma, active 476-518
• Council of Chalcedon (451 : Chalcedon)
• Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-188) and index.

Contents

1. The stage of the resistance -- 2. The texts -- 3. The images of authority -- 4. Signs and revelations -- 5. The image of the enemies.

ISBN

1593331312 (hbk.)

OCLC

• ocm61662415
• SCSB-5196872

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Columbia University Libraries