Christians Shaping Identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium ― Studies Inspired by Pauline Allen

Classicists and scholars of religion engage with social, cultural, personal, religious, and other categories of identity in Christian Rome and Byzantium. The 23 papers examine such topics as inferences from spells and amulets about what ancient Christians said when they cast out demons, the transformation of the Platonic tradition in Gregory of Nyssa, the use of comparison and contrast in shaping the identity of a desert monk, Alois Grillmeier's contribution to conceptualizing the personal identity of Jesus Christ, and male-centered christology and female cultic incapability: women's impedimentum sexus. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Geoffrey D. Dunn, Ph.D. (2000), Australian Catholic University, is Senior Research Fellow at that university. He has published extensively on North African Christianity and fifth-century Roman bishops. Most recently he is editor ofThe Bishop of Rome in Late Antiquity (Ashgate, 2015). Wendy Mayer, Ph.D. (1996), Australian Catholic University, is Research Fellow at that university. She has published extensively on John Chrysostom and his milieu, including, with Pauline Allen,The Churches of Syrian Antioch 300-638 CE (Peeters, 2012).