- Type:
- Book Chapter
- Author:
- Emanuel Fiano
- Published:
- 2025
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This essay focuses on the increasing convergence between law and Christian doctrine in the early Byzantine empire. Deploying theories developed by Pierre Legendre, it argues that the tightening of the connection between these two domains was not simply the result of Christianity’s institutional integration within the empire but was also related to a matrix of normativity inherent in orthodox theology. The Council of Nicaea is treated here not as a historical event or theological milestone, but as the anchoring point for a set of discursive phenomena implicated by public Christian theology. Examples such as the phrasing of creeds, the scripturalization and subjection to interpretation of credal pronouncements, and the rise of the patristic argument are examined. This initial analysis lays the theoretical groundwork for a larger project on the coarticulation of legal and theological discourses in the establishment of a Christian social order in late antiquity.
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- What is "Nicaea in the Dogmatic Order of Late Antiquity" about?
- This essay focuses on the increasing convergence between law and Christian doctrine in the early Byzantine empire.
- Who wrote "Nicaea in the Dogmatic Order of Late Antiquity"?
- Emanuel Fiano