The Excellent Empire: The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church

Pelikan, Jaroslav

ISBN 10: 0062546368 / ISBN 13: 9780062546364

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1987

About this Item

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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Excellent Empire: The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church
• Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062546368
• ISBN 13: 9780062546364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Renowned historian Jaroslav Pelikan details the reactions to the fall of Rome by the Church fathers, who set the pattern for interpreting this momentous event for succeeding centuries, & examines Gibbon's interpretation in the light of the original Christian response.
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

About the Author

Jaroslav Pelikan (1923-2006) was Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He authored many books, including Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures through the Ages and Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition.