Ilaria L. E. Ramelli - Böcker

This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the 9th centuries CE. This rich and diverse volume breaks new ground in the study of women in early Christianity. This is not about working with one method, based on one type of feminist theory, but overall there is nevertheless a feminist or egalitarian agenda in considering the full equality of women with men in religious spheres a positive goal, with the assumption that this full equality has yet to be attained. The chapters revisit both older studies and offers new and unpublished research, exploring the many ways in which ancient Christian women's leadership could function.

The relationship between the soul and the body was a point of contentious debate among philosophers and theologians in late antiquity. Modern scholarship has inherited this legacy, but split the study of the relation of body and soul between the disciplines of philosophy and religion. Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body integrates, with Plato and Aristotle in the background, philosophical and religious perspectives on the concepts of soul and body in the transformative period of the first six centuries CE, from Philo to Olympiodorus. The polyphonic—but not dissonant—philosophical and theological dialogue is recreated and rethought by an international group of leading experts and up-and-coming scholars in ancient philosophy, theology, and religion.The synthetic approach of the volume presents the understanding of human psychology in late antiquity, without labels and borders. It invites both experts and enthusiasts to crisscross the pathways of philosophy and religion in pursuit of new crossroads and greater common ground.

How did Origen, one of the major Patristic thinkers, construct his philosophical theology? What are his main innovations in metaphysics, protology, Trinitarian Theology and Christology? How did he view the relation between philosophy and theology? This is a collection of over twenty essays, mostly from world-leading journals and books from outstanding publishers, besides two new ones, from Professor Ilaria L.E. Ramelli’s life-long, and always continuing, research on Origen. This coherent set　of studies is grouped around Origen’s metaphysics, protology, Trinitarian theology and Christology, and the relation between theology and philosophy, with reception aspects. The essays address Origen’s towering figure in Patristic philosophy, Christian Platonism, and the Platonic tradition, facets of his reception of Platonism, reflections concerning the Christianization of Hellenism (vs. the Hellenization of Christianity) and the relation between philosophy and theology and between ‘pagan’ and Christian Platonism; Origen’s philosophical theology and connections to Platonism; the question of Origen's conversion and his lexicon of　epistrophē; a comparison between the imperial Platonist Atticus’ and Origen’s theories on the soul of God the Creator; Alexander of Aphrodisias as a source of Origen’s philosophy and the birth of the eternity formula in reference to the Son; the problem of Origen’s "subordinationism", which must be nuanced; Origen’s major contribution to Trinitarian theology in the notion of hypostasis and its foundation in Scripture and philosophy; the reciprocal indwelling of the Father in the Son and its implications against Origen’s "subordinationism"; Origen’s influence on Augustine as paradoxical and a Christological case study; the divine as inaccessible object of knowledge in ancient and Patristic Platonism; the reception of Origen’s ideas in the West; the notion of divine power in Origen: sources and aftermath; Platonist exemplarism in Origen and Plotinus; Paul’s notion of nous in Origen and Evagrius; the reception of Origen in Ps.Dionysius, and Origen’s heritage in the concept of matter in the Dialogue of Adamantius. The volume is rounded off by theoretical reflections on philosophy of religion and philosophical theology. This book is very relevant to the study of Origen, the foundations of Christian thought, and ancient and late antique philosophy, theology and culture.

Die Autoren dieses Bandes erläutern die außergewöhnliche Funktion, die Religion bei der Bildung und Umformung von Erzählformen in der Antike und Spätantike auf verschiedene Weise einnimmt. Das wird vor allem in antiken jüdischen und christlichen Erzählungen deutlich, aber auch in einigen "heidnischen" Romanen wie dem Heliodors. Die Beiträge beleuchten aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln das Wechselspiel zwischen Erzählung und Religion und zeigen, wie religiöse Anliegen und Agenden die Erzählformen in Judentum und frühem Christentum prägten. Diese innovativen Texte basieren alle auf der aktuellen Forschungsarbeit herausragender Wissenschaftler.

Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge führender Experten zu Bardesanes von Edessa, dem Buch der Gesetze der Länder und seiner Argumentation zu Anthropologie, freiem Willen, Natur, Schicksal, Astrologie und Eschatologie. Einleitend kontextualisiert Ilaria L.E. Ramelli das Buch in Werk und Schule des Gelehrten, argumentiert, dass das Buch als platonischer Dialog angelegt ist, beleuchtet seine anti-gnostischen und anti-markionitischen Argumente und erläutert textliche Probleme. Nach ihrer Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar präsentieren sechs Aufsätze neue Forschungseinsichten. Die ersten beiden konzentrieren sich auf Bardesanes Haltung zu Apokatastasis, Parallelen zu Origenes und ihren gemeinsamen „mittelplatonischen" Denkhorizont. Die folgenden Aufsätze untersuchen den historischen und kulturellen Kontext sowie die philosophischen und astrologischen Hintergründe. Der letzte Aufsatz erörtert Bardesanes'Einfluss auf das spätantike Christentum.