TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pelikan, Jaroslav
AU  - Pelikan,Jaroslav
TI  - The Excellent Empire:  The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church
SN  - 0062548670   
U1  - C25 
PY  - 1987///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper Collins Publishers
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Introduction  1. The fall of rome as historical paradigm ...........3  I. The decline and fall of the Roman empire  2. The social triumph of the ancient church .............15  3. The triumph of barbarism and religion ..........29  II. The lessons of history   4. History as divine apocalypse .............43  5. The register of human follies ,crimes, and misfortunes .............53  III. The fate of Empire  6. The founding of the christian empire ..............67  7. The inevitable effect of immoderate greatness ..............79  IV. Loss nd gain   8. The terrestrial Glory of an excellent empire ...........93  9. The inestimable gifts of roman civilization ...............104  Notes ........117  Index of names ..........131
ER  -