{"product_id":"9781009299299","title":"Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power : Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire (Greek Culture in the Roman World)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the rise and consolidation of a Christian politics of interpretation that relied on exegesis as a self-legitimising device to secure control over Roman history via claims to Christianity's control of paideia. This reconstruction infuses Julian's reaction with contextual significance. His literary and political project emerges as a response to contemporary reconfigurations of Christian hermeneutics as controlling the meaning of Rome's culture and history. At the same time, understanding Julian as a participant in a larger debate re-qualifies all fourth-century political and episcopal discourse as a long knock-on effect reacting to the imperial mobilisation of Christian debates over the link between power and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49845829665016,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":268.29,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781009299299-1.jpg?v=1783624975","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781009299299","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}