Preaching after Easter: Mid-Pentecost, Ascension, and Pentecost in Late Antiquity

Richard W. Bishop (Ph.D. 2009) is a post-doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium). His current project is an annotated translation of the extant Greek festal sermons on Ascension and Pentecost from Late Antiquity.Prof. Dr. Johan Leemans (Ph.D. 2001) is full professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium). He has published extensively on late antique sermons and on the theology of the Cappadocian Fathers. Dr. Hajnalka Tamas (Ph.D. 2014) is a post-doctoral fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and research associate at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium). Her research interests include late antique hagiography and asceticism.

• ContentsIntroductionPreaching after Easter: Fresh Perspectives on an Understudied Topic Richard W. Bishop and Johan LeemansPart 1: Towards a Festal History1 Pentekoste, Pfingsten und HimmelfahrtGrunddaten und Fragen zur FrühgeschichteHarald BuchingerPart 2: Mid-Pentecost2 Das Mesopentekoste-FestBezeugung, Charakter, EntstehungMartin Kaiser3 Les sermons de Pierre Chrysologue sur la Mi-Pentecôte (LXXXV et LXXXVbis)Un état de la questionJean-Marie Auwers4 Die (pseudo-amphilochianische) Mesopentekoste-Predigt CPG 3236Martin KaiserPart 3: Ascension5 La fête de l’Ascension à Antioche d’après l’homélie de Jean Chrysostome In Ascensionem ChristiNathalie Rambault6 Augustine’s Homiletic Appreciation of the Feast of the AscensionPreaching on Christological Orthodoxy, Divine Soteriology and the Moral Life Forty Days after Easter (serm. 261–265F)Anthony Dupont7 The Authorship, Thematics, and Reception of an Ascension Sermon Attributed to Proclus of Constantinople (CPG 5820)Richard W. BishopPart 4: Pentecost8 Pentecost and Shavuot – Holy Spirit and TorahThe Quest for Traces of a Dialogue between Jews and Christians about a Shared but Separating FestivalClemens Leonhard9 Pentecost Homilies and Late-Antique Christian ExegesisMartin Meiser10 The Relative Routine of PreachingPneumatomachians in Greek Patristic Sermons on PentecostJohan Leemans11 Pentecost According to Severian of GabalaSever J. Voicu12 Unitas Omnibus Linguis Loquitur 304An Unidentified Augustinian Sermon on PentecostClemens Weidmann13 The Pentecost Feast in Sixth-Century AntiochThe Evidence of Patriarch Severus (512–518)Pauline Allen14 Ecrire du ChrysostomeL’exemple de l’homélie 2 Sur la Pentecôte (CPG 4343.2)Nathalie Rambault15 Pentecost and the SensesA Hermeneutical Contribution to the Visual Medium and the Sensorium in Early Medieval Manuscript TraditionBarbara BaertPart 5: Liturgical Theology: The Example of Leo the Great16 The Resurrection of the Body in Leo the Great’s Ascension and Pentecost HomiliesBronwen Neil17 Paschal Joy ContinuedExploring Leo the Great’s Theology of Christ’s Ascension into HeavenJoris GeldhofPart 6: Notes on Three Recently Edited Greek Ascension Sermons18 Evidence of AuthenticitySeverian of Gabala, In ascensionem Domini (CPG 5028)Sever J. Voicu19 CPG 4908 In S. Ascensionem Domini Nostri et Salvatoris Iesu ChristiPauline Allen20 L’homélie In Ascensionem CPG 4988 et son attribution à Jean ChrysostomeNathalie RambaultIndex of Modern AuthorsScriptural IndexIndex of Sources