Bishops in Flight : Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity
Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face of it, it meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of the faith and its community. But, by the fourth century, the terms o...
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University of California Press
2019
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