I just finished this chapter. I really enjoyed the synthesis of classical and Christian sources – some of your best work in the book so far, in my opinion! I'm curious how you would address other Church fathers such as Isidore who did promote ideas of religious nationalism (in Isidore's case, once the Visigoths settled in Spain and converted from Arianism, they became God's favored people and essentially founders of a "new Rome" that properly fufilled the criteria of a Christian empire in ways that Rome fell short).
I just finished this chapter. I really enjoyed the synthesis of classical and Christian sources – some of your best work in the book so far, in my opinion! I'm curious how you would address other Church fathers such as Isidore who did promote ideas of religious nationalism (in Isidore's case, once the Visigoths settled in Spain and converted from Arianism, they became God's favored people and essentially founders of a "new Rome" that properly fufilled the criteria of a Christian empire in ways that Rome fell short).