01091nam a2200181Ia 4500 230822s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97890041142039004114203 eng BV648 .B73 1999 Brent, Allen The imperial cult and the development of church order : concepts and images of authority in paganism and early Christianity before the Age of Cyprian / Allen Brent Leiden ; Boston : E. J. Brill, 1999 xxii, 369 p. ; 25 cm. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 45 Christian and pagan cultus by the third century -- The foundations of the imperial cult -- Imperial ideology and the origins of church order -- Clement of Rome and Domitian's empire -- The Apocalypse and Domitian's iconography -- Ignatius of Antioch and the Martyr's procession -- Pagan and Christian Monarchisanism -- The emergence of imperial and Catholic order. Church polity History Early church, ca. 30-600.Emperor worship Rome.Christianity and other religions Roman. 45581 45581