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Contents 12 Acknowledgments 14 Part One 16 1. The Nature of Leadership in Late Antiquity 18 Previous Scholarship on the Role of Bishops in Late Antiquity 21 A New Explanatory Model: Spiritual, Ascetic, and Pragmatic Authority 31 2. Pragmatic Authority 38 The Early Church Orders 39 1 Timothy 3 and Its Interpretations 47 Treatises on Ecclesiastical Leadership 56 3. Spiritual Authority 71 Carriers of the Gifts of the Spirit 72 Spiritual Leadership and Prayer 81 Carrying the Burdens of Others’ Sins 88 4. Ascetic Authority 115 The Importance of the Desert 120 Moses as the Biblical Model of Leadership 140 Monks as Bishops and Bishops as Monks 152 Part Two 168 5. Bishops in Action 170 Synesius of Cyrene and Theodore of Sykeon 171 The Episcopate: Work or Honor? 181 6. Social Contexts 187 Bishops of Modest Background 188 Education 193 Bishops of Curial Background 198 Bishops of Senatorial Background 203 Family Traditions of Ecclesiastical OfWceholding 210 The Correlation of Wealth and Ecclesiastical OfWce 214 The Permeability of Civic and Ecclesiastical OfWce 218 7. Cities 223 The Bishop’s Residence 223 Bishops and Wealth 226 Episcopal Expenditure 234 8. Empire 250 Constantine’s Legacy 251

Author

Rapp, Claudia.

Published

2005

Language

EN