Voting about God in Early Church Councils - by Ramsay MacMullen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this original book, an eminent historian explores how early Christian doctrine was determined by majority vote in church councils during the third to sixth centuries. Ramsey MacMullen brings the reader directly into council chambers, where rank and file bishops engage in debate, then vote to establish a single Christian orthodoxy.</p><p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Ramsay MacMullen has written another provocative and highly original book. He shows how Christian doctrine came to be decided by the democratic votes of bishops, and how the passions that this aroused all too often led to actual violence."--Averil Cameron, Keble College, Oxford University <p/><p>In MacMullen's highly original book we get a sense of what it was like to be at an early church council, how arguments ebbed and flowed, how power was wielded, how participants were intimidated and inspired.--David Brakke, Indiana University <p/><br></p> <p/><p>By fine literary detective work, MacMullen reassembles the mobs of bishops who debated, voted, and rioted in the fifteen thousand or so early church councils, tracing the progress of Christianity from a raucous democracy to a harnessed hierarchy.--Garry Wills, Northwestern University<br></p> <p/><p>Bloodthirsty bishops raining curses on their enemies storm through these pages, then step aside, humbled, allowing MacMullen's cool, sane, and immensely learned analysis to enrich our understanding of the making and fragmenting of Roman imperial Christianity.--James J. O'Donnell, author of <i>Augustine: A New Biography</i><br></p> <p/><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Ramsay MacMullen</b> is emeritus professor in the Department of History at Yale University. Among his many previous books are <i>Christianizing the Roman Empire, Corruption and the Decline of Rome</i>, and <i>Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries</i>.
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