The Crisis of the Oikoumene: The Three Chapters and the Failed Quest for Unity in the Sixth-Century Mediterranean. Edited by Celia Chazelle and Catherine Cubitt
This is a collection of essays deriving from a conference at York in 2002 whose theme was the Three Chapters controversy. It aims at providing ‘a much-needed modern overview and reassessment of the controversy's impact’. ‘Much-needed’ is editorial enthusiasm, but the conference was worth holdin...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 2, Pages: 813-815 |
| Review of: | The crisis of the "oikoumene" (Turnhout : Brepols, 2007) (Wickham, L. R.)
The crisis of the "oikoumene" (Turnhout : Brepols, 2007) (Wickham, L. R.) |
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| Summary: | This is a collection of essays deriving from a conference at York in 2002 whose theme was the Three Chapters controversy. It aims at providing ‘a much-needed modern overview and reassessment of the controversy's impact’. ‘Much-needed’ is editorial enthusiasm, but the conference was worth holding and the essays were all worth printing. The title is, of course, overblown. For, as the essays and excellent introduction and epilogue, by Robert Markus and Claire Sotinel, make clear, the word ‘crisis’ is melodramatic and ‘failed quest’ false. On a one-to-ten scale of church schisms with the Reformation at, say, nine, this might get 1. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fln099 |