Portraits of spiritual authority :   religious power in early Christianity, Byzantium, and the Christian Orient /  
edited by Jan Willem Drijvers and John W. Watt 
 - New York :   E.J. Brill,  1999 
 - xiii, 227 p.  ;  24 cm. 
 - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ;  137 .
<br/><br/>Rewriting early Christian history : Augustine's representation of Monica / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Magi and visionaries in Gnosticism / Alastair H.B. Logan -- Spiritual authority and the "heretical" woman : Firmilian's word to the Church in Carthage / Christine Trevett -- Troubled breasts : the Holy Body in Hagiography / Rowan Williams -- Promoting Jerusalem : Cyril and the True Cross / Jan Willem Drijvers -- The life and Lives of Gregory Thaumaturgus / Stephen Mitchell -- Rabbula, Bishop of Edessa : spiritual authority and secular power / Han J.W. Drijvers -- A portrait of John Bar Aphtonia, founder of the Monastery of Qenneshre / John W. Watt -- Babai the Great's Life of George and the propagation of doctrine in the late Sasanian empire / Gerrit J. Reinink -- Spiritual authority and monasticism in Constantinople during the Dark Ages / Peter Hatlie.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>97890041145939004114599 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Authority Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600 Congresses.Conference papers and proceedings.Authority Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT88   / .P67 1999