01695nam a2200169Ia 4500008004100000020002800041041000800069050002100077245018100098260003500279300002800314490004700342505086600389650022401255700002701479700001901506220922s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a97890041145939004114599  aeng  aBT88 b.P67 1999 0aPortraits of spiritual authority : breligious power in early Christianity, Byzantium, and the Christian Orient / cedited by Jan Willem Drijvers and John W. Watt  aNew York : bE.J. Brill,c1999  axiii, 227 p.b;c24 cm.  aReligions in the Graeco-Roman world ;v137  aRewriting 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.   aAuthority 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.  aDrijvers, Jan Willem    aWatt, John W.