The Excellent Empire: The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church
Language: English
Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1987
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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133 pp. Two small dents in back cover, one at each of the upper and lower edges; jacket lightly discolored at corresponding locations of back panel. Responses to the fall of Rome by the Church Fathers. "The Rauschenbusch Lectures, New Series, I.".
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- Title
- The Excellent Empire: The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church
- Author
- Pelikan, Jaroslav
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, New York
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Near Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0062546368
- ISBN 13
- 9780062546364
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Edition
- First Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Series
- Book 1 of 1: The Rauschenbusch lectures
Preface
Introduction: The fall of Rome as historical paradigm
The social triumph of barbarism & religion
History as divine apocalypse
The register of human follies, crimes & misfortunes
The founding of the Christian empire
The inevitable effect of immoderate greatness
The terrestrial glory of an excellent empire
The inestimable gifts of Roman civilization
Notes
Index of Names
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Persephone's Books
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