TY - BOOK AU - Drijvers, Jan Willem AU - Watt, John W. TI - Portraits of spiritual authority : : religious power in early Christianity, Byzantium, and the Christian Orient / T2 - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world SN - 97890041145939004114599 AV - BT88 .P67 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - New York : PB - E.J. Brill KW - 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 N1 - 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. ER -