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John Rufus and the World Vision of Anti-Chalcedonean Culture
Second Revised Edition
Inbunden, 2005
1518 kr
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This book deals with the works of the anti-Chalcedonian hagiographer, John Rufus, and traces the basic motives behind the opposition against the council of Chalcedon in the fifth century through an attempt to reconstruct a specific anti-Chalcedonian culture. As part of the eastern monastic culture, …
Salvation in Christ According to Jacob of Serugh
An Exegetico-theological Study on the Homilies of Jacob of Serugh on the Feasts of Our Lord
Häftad, 2014
653 kr
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Jacob of Serugh’s vision of ‘Salvation in Christ’, in its exegetical, theological, catechetical, liturgical and pastoral aspects, is reviewed in this monograph. Jacob’s mode of symbolic-mystical-silence approach to the mystery of Christ is explained. This treatise gathers up Jacob’s typological and …
Center and the Source
Second Century Incarnational Christology and Early Catholic Christianity
Inbunden, 2016
1362 kr
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This book proposes a model for explaining unity and diversity in early Christianity that centers about a clear confessional identity, allowing both extreme expressions of diversity of texts and traditions while explaining the exclusion of teachers, texts, and traditions that deviated from the …
Hippolytus of Rome
Commentary on Daniel and 'Chronicon'
Av T Schmidt
Inbunden, 2017
1338 kr
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This volume contains an English translation and introduction to Hippolytus of Rome's Commentary on Daniel and his Chronicon. Both works are the first writings of their kind. The commentary is the earliest extant Christian commentary on a book of the Bible and the Chronicon is the first extant …
Lactantius the Theologian
Lactantius and the Doctrine of Providence
Inbunden, 2017
1687 kr
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This book examines the doctrine of providence as it appears in the works of the North African Latin apologist, L. Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius.
Universal Salvation and Freedom of Choice according to Origen of Alexandria
Av Lee Sytsma
Inbunden, 2020
2031 kr
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The 3rd century theologian Origen of Alexandria has traditionally been famous for his belief in universal salvation. Yet, Origen is also famous for his insistence on moral autonomy, the fact that God allows each creature to freely choose to move in the direction of good or evil. How can these two …
Against “Irenaean” Theodicy
A Refutation of John Hick's Use of Irenaeus
Inbunden, 2019
2233 kr
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This book serves to correct the now accepted understanding of Irenaeus’s theodicy. This assumption of Hick’s theodicy as legitimately “Irenaean” remains due the gulf between Irenaean scholarship and discussion of the problem of evil. The present work offers a bridge between the two to allow for the …
Nilus of Ancyra
Byzantine Theologian and Ascetic
Inbunden, 2025
1593 kr
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Nilus of Ancyra was one of the most significant theologians and spiritual guides of the fifth century. Long neglected because his name was used to protect the works of his predecessor, Evagrius Pontikos, Nilus’ work is unquestionably valuable in its own right. This translation offers a modern and …
Bishop Lists: Formation of Apostolic Succession of Bishops in Ecclesiastical Crises
Inbunden, 2005
1503 kr
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Early lists of bishops, identified by Walter Bauer as "literary propaganda," mark critical points in the development of the doctrine of the apostolic succession of bishops. This study delves into the political struggles surrounding the lists and the doctrine they served to define. Ecclesiastical …
Blessed is He who has brought Adam from Sheol
Christ's Descent to the Dead in the Theology of Saint Ephrem the Syrian
Inbunden, 2004
1492 kr
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Buchan’s work is an examination of the theological use of the doctrine of Christ's descent to the dead in the works of Saint Ephrem the Syrian (ca. 306-373 C.E.). Ephrem's conception of Christ's descent to Sheol provides us with an important and distinctive vision of the significance of this …
Teachings on the Prayer of the Heart in the Greek and Syrian Fathers
The Significance of Body and Community
Av Jill Gather
Inbunden, 2010
1775 kr
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The prayer of the heart is an early Christian contemplative tradition of striking profundity and beauty. Christian authors of the Greek- as well as the Syriac-speaking world placed the heart at the center of a mystical theology that viewed the body as a God-given instrument of divine ascent and the …
Salvation in Christ According to Jacob of Serugh
An Exegetico-theological Study on the Homilies of Jacob of Serugh on the Feasts of Our Lord
Inbunden, 2010
1689 kr
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Jacob of Serugh’s vision of ‘Salvation in Christ’, in its exegetical, theological, catechetical, liturgical and pastoral aspects, is reviewed in this monograph. Jacob’s mode of symbolic-mystical-silence approach to the mystery of Christ is explained. This treatise gathers up Jacob’s typological and …
