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| Author(s): |
Robson Murilo Grando Della Torre
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2011-08-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Néri de Barros Almeida;
Pedro Paulo Abreu Funari;
Carlos Augusto Ribeiro Machado
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| Advisor: | Néri de Barros Almeida |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation has as its main aim to analyze the public role of the bishops during the reign of Constantine, chiefly their efforts to build a relationship of proximity and dialogue with the imperial court. The documental corpus of this study is composed of the texts of the bishop Eusebius of Caesarea that deal specially with this emperor, which are the Ecclesiastical History, the Praise of Constantine and the Life of Constantine. I will try to show how the imperial policy of support to Christianity that occurs in the beginning of the fourth century owes great part of its success to the political involvement of the bishops with the emperor and his magistrates. I will also argue that the problem of the consolidation of the Church as an important political institution within the imperial scenario depends not only of a change of attitude of the emperor towards the Christian communities, but mainly of a transformation occurred within the churches themselves, through their bishops, that were more and more interested in the aid of Rome for the resolution of their own conflicts (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/13235-0 - The public role of the bishops in the reign of Constantine: an analysis of the political changes in the empire and in the church in the beginning of the fourth century through the texts of Eusebius of Caesarea |
| Grantee: | Robson Murilo Grando Della Torre |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |