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- Title
History and Virtue: Contextualizing Exemplarity in Ambrose.
- Authors
HARMON, ANDREW M.
- Abstract
Ambrose's antithetical stance toward "philosophy" has been well documented, as has his emphasis on exemplarity for moral formation. The article recontextualizes Ambrose's antithetical writing against the philosophers by analyzing his recurrent claim of the remote antiquity of Christian exemplars. Because of their chronological and theoretical originality, these exemplars offer the oldest and truest ways to wisdom, thereby depicting non-Christian philosophy as derivative speculation. What emerges in Ambrose's writing is a picture of Christianity dictated by exemplarity and legitimated by recourse to history.
- Subjects
CHRISTIANITY &; culture; RELIGIOUS values; CULTURAL values; CHRISTIANITY; HOSTILITY
- Publication
Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2017, Vol 25, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
1067-6341
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/earl.2017.0019