Dealing with Difference

Die Beiträge in diesem Band untersuchen eine Reihe von Fallstudien darüber, wie und warum Konflikte zwischen Gruppen innerhalb des Christentums und zwischen Christen und anderen in den ersten Jahrhunderten entstanden. Das Spektrum der Methoden, mit denen diese Konflikte angegangen oder gelöst wurden, reicht von Dialog und Verhandlungen bis hin zu Gewalt.Geoffrey D. Dunn/Christine Shepardson: Introduction

Part One: Strategies of De-escalation
Silke-Petra Bergjan: From Rivalry to Marginalisation: Tomus ad Antiochenos and the Paulinus Group in Antioch − Maijastina Kahlos: Heresy Test and the Barbarian Other − Jesse A. Hoover: »A City Founded in a Brother's Blood«: Connecting Augustine and the Donatist Church − Geoffrey D. Dunn: Ecclesiastical Rivalry between Rome and Constantinople in the Early Fifth Century: Boniface I's Diplomatic Efforts to De-escalate the Competition and Conflict about Perigenes of Corinth − Wendy Mayer: Using the Past to Reconcile the Present: The Diplomatic Correspondence Presented in Theodore of Trimithous' Vita Iohannis − Chiara Tommasi: Early Christianity in the Celestial Empire: A Foreign Religion between Acceptance and Competition

Part Two: Strategies of Escalation
Chris L. de Wet: Cain's Disease: Murder, Medicine, and Pedagogy in John Chrysostom's Reading of the Cain and Abel Story − Pauline Allen: Post-mortem Polemics: The Literary Persecution of Severus of Antioch (512–18) − Bronwen Neil: Rivalries in Rome: Damnatio memoriae and Forbidden Books in the Letters of Pope Hormisdas (514–23) − Christine Shepardson: Remembering the Saints: John of Ephesus' Commentarii and the Polarisation of the Chalcedonian Conflict − Hajnalka Tamas: Hagiography, Liturgy, and Christian Identity in Aquileia from the Sixth to the Eighth Centuries − Alan H. Cadwallader: The Devil's Rap Sheet: Protean Descriptions in the Story of St Michael of Chonai