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Doctrine and Power: Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire

Carlos R. Galvão-Sobrinho

Print publication date: 2013

Print ISBN-13: 9780520257399

Published to California Scholarship Online: January 2014

DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520257399.001.0001

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Making the People a Partner to the Dispute

Making the People a Partner to the Dispute

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(p.47) 4 Making the People a Partner to the Dispute
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Doctrine and Power
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Carlos R. Galvão-Sobrinho

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University of California Press
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520257399.003.0005

This chapter focuses on the social dimensions of the theological controversy in Alexandria, following closely the efforts of rival churchmen to make ordinary Christians their partners in the dispute. It is here, as churchmen interacted with one another and with their congregations, that we begin to see the rise of a new type of church leader—brash, enterprising, and combative.

Keywords:   religious conflict, Christian history early church, ca. 30–600, leadership (sociology), heresy, worship Christian, Arian controversy, Alexandria, Arius of Alexandria, Alexander of Alexandria, preaching, violence

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