Bishops in Flight : Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity

Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face of it, it meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of the faith and its community. But, by the fourth century, the terms o...

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Main Author: Barry, Jennifer (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: University of California Press 2019
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