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The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition
Häftad, 2006
590 kr
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Deification in the Greek patristic tradition was the fulfilment of the destiny for which humanity was created - not merely salvation from sin but entry into the fullness of the divine life of the Trinity. This book, the first on the subject for over sixty years, traces the history of deification …
The Body in St Maximus the Confessor
Holy Flesh, Wholly Deified
Inbunden, 2005
4277 kr
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Contemporary scholarship recognizes in Maximus the Confessor a theologian of towering intellectual importance. In this book Adam G. Cooper puts to him a question which from the origins of Christian thought has constituted an interpretative crux for catholic Christianity: what is the place of the …
The Cult of Saint Thecla
A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2008
1090 kr
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Thecla, a disciple of the apostle Paul, became perhaps the most celebrated female saint and 'martyr' among Christians in late antiquity. In the early church, Thecla's example was associated with the piety of women - in particular, with women's ministry and travel. Devotion to Saint Thecla quickly …
St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons
Theology and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Byzantium
Inbunden, 2018
1901 kr
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St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons provides an investigation of the icon-theology of St Theodore the Studite, mainly as it is presented in his three refutations of the iconoclasts, the Antirrhetici tres adversus iconomachos. Torstein Theodor Tollefsen explores Theodore´s 'philosophy of …
The Asceticism of Isaac of Nineveh
Inbunden, 2010
2627 kr
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The ascetic tracts of 7th century writer Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian) provide a wealth of material to better understand early Christian asceticism. By focusing on the role of the body in various ascetic techniques, such as fasting, vigils and prayer, as well as on the way the ascetic relates …
Saint Jerome's Hebrew Questions on Genesis
Av Saint Jerome
Inbunden, 1995
3040 kr
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Jerome was one of the very few early Christian scholars to know any Hebrew. This is a unique introduction, translation, and commentary of his Questions on Genesis - a fascinating work showing a Christian working alongside Jews in an age very different from our own. Jerome's influence on the Church …
Tatian's Diatessaron
Composition, Redaction, Recension, and Reception
Inbunden, 2021
1935 kr
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In the late-second century, Tatian the Assyrian constructed a new Gospel by intricately harmonizing Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Tatian's work became known as the Diatessaron, since it was derived 'out of the four' eventually canonical Gospels. Though it circulated widely for centuries, the …
Fallen Angels in the Theology of St Augustine
Inbunden, 2021
1974 kr
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This book ventures to describe Augustine of Hippo's understanding of demons, including the theology, angelology, and anthropology that contextualize it. Demons are, for Augustine as for the Psalmist (95:5 LXX) and the Apostle (1 Cor 10:20), the "gods of the nations." This means that Augustine's …
The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem
Inventing a Patron Martyr
Av Hugo Méndez
Inbunden, 2022
1186 kr
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As the site of only a small and obscure Christian population between 135 and 313 CE, Jerusalem witnessed few instances of anti-Christian persecution. This fact became a source of embarrassment to the city in late antiquity—a period when martyr traditions, relics, and shrines were closely …
Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority
Av Andrew Cain
Inbunden, 2021
1540 kr
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In the late fourth and early fifth centuries, during a fifty-year stretch sometimes dubbed a Pauline "renaissance" of the western church, six different authors produced over four dozen commentaries in Latin on Paul's epistles. Among them was Jerome, who commented on four epistles (Galatians, …
Clement and Scriptural Exegesis
The Making of a Commentarial Theologian
Inbunden, 2022
1595 kr
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How might one describe early Christian exegesis? This question has given rise to a significant reassessment of patristic exegetical practice in recent decades, and H. Clifton Ward makes a new contribution to this reappraisal of patristic exegesis against the background of ancient Greco-Roman …
The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy
Häftad, 2022
563 kr
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Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy - one of the most widely-read texts in Western history-aims to …
The Metaphysics of Light in the Hexaemeral Literature
From Philo of Alexandria to Gregory of Nyssa
Inbunden, 2023
1404 kr
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This volume critically re-evaluates the received interpretation of the nature of light in the ancient sources. Isidoros C. Katsos contests the prevalent view in the history of optics according to which pre-modernity theorized light as subordinate to sight ('oculocentrism') by examining in depth the …
Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria
The Last Pharaoh and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire
Inbunden, 2023
1119 kr
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Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria: The Last Pharaoh of Alexandria and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire offers a thorough revision of the historical role of Dioscorus as patriarch of Alexandria between 444 and 451 CE. One of the major protagonists of the Christological controversy, …
Faith, Piety, and Salvation in Irenaeus of Lyons
Inbunden, 2026
1490 kr
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Irenaeus' soteriology is often celebrated as containing many profound themes-- Christus Victor, recapitulation, deification, and more. Little, however, has been said about how Irenaeus thought these benefit individual human beings, or relate to the Christian's faith, love, or piety. Rather, …
Gregory's Macrina and Plato's Socrates
Text, Cosmos, Anthropos
Inbunden, 2026
1262 kr
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This book delivers a new reading of On the Soul and the Resurrection, a famously intractable and intriguing text by Gregory of Nyssa. It takes seriously Gregory's decision to write this text as a dialogue, a literary form that is linked like no other to fundamental Platonic teachings about …
Theosis in the Theology of Gregory of Nazianzus
Inbunden, 2026
1576 kr
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The importance of Gregory's contribution to the development of the doctrine of deification can hardly be overstated. Gregory was the first theologian to coin the term 'theosis', a term which would become the standard cipher for the doctrine in the later Byzantine tradition. He is one of the most …
The Christology of Theodoret of Cyrus
Antiochene Christology from the Council of Ephesus (431) to the Council of Chalcedon (451)
Inbunden, 2007
2217 kr
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Theodoret of Cyrus (c.393-c.466) was the most able Antiochene theologian in the defence of Nestorius from the Council of Ephesus in 431 to the Council of Chalcedon in 451. While the works of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Nestorius are extant today only in translations or in fragments, Theodoret's …
Pelagius' Commentary on St Paul's Epistle to the Romans
Av Pelagius
Inbunden, 1993
3420 kr
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The Pelagian controversy has secured an enduring place for Pelagius in the history of western Christian thought. Few of Pelagius' writings, however, have been preserved, and until recently none was available in English translation. This volume presents Pelagius' commentary on Romans for the first …
Eunomius of Cyzicus and the Nicene Revolution
Inbunden, 2001
5927 kr
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The study of 'Arianism' has proved one of the abiding fascinations and the abiding problems of early Christian studies in recent years. In this book Richard Vaggione addresses the definition of the doctrine and why it generated such intense social turmoil by examining the standpoint of one of …
Arator on the Acts of the Apostles
A Baptismal Commentary
Inbunden, 1993
4094 kr
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Baptism for the early Christians was a subject of crucial importance, and its symbolism fired the imagination of writers throughout the Christian world. Arator, the Roman sub-deacon who wrote a verse-commentary on the Acts of the Apostles in AD 544, was no exception. The Historia Apostolica is a …
Arnobius of Sicca
Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian
Inbunden, 1995
7508 kr
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Arnobius of Sicca, in North Africa, was a Christian convert writing in the time of the Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd sentury AD. His most famous work, Against the Pagans, was written shortly after his conversion (c. AD 302), and is a brilliant defence of his new religion using arguments taken from …
The Desert Fathers on Monastic Community
Av Graham Gould
Inbunden, 1993
2929 kr
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Graham Gould studies the life and thought of the Christian monks of fourth and fifth century lower Egypt. He works from collections of their sayings and stories which were compiled in the late fifth century and which are known collectively as the Apopthegmata Patrum. These texts show that the …
Origen and the Life of the Stars
A History of an Idea
Av Alan Scott
Häftad, 1994
840 kr
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It was widely assumed by intellectuals from antiquity to the Middle Ages that the beauty and regularity of the heavens was a sign of their superior life. Through this belief the stars gained an important position in Greek religion, and speculations on their nature figured prominently in discussions …
Eusebius of Caesarea's Commentary on Isaiah
Christian Exegesis in the Age of Constantine
Inbunden, 1999
5287 kr
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Eusebius of Caesarea (d. 339), bishop, church historian, and biographer of Constantine, is the major Christian witness to the Constantinian settlement. Despite his importance, his biblical exegesis has not received the attention it deserved. His Commentary on Isaiah, rediscovered in nearly complete …
Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Arian-Nicene Conflicts
Inbunden, 1995
3378 kr
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This is a new and provocative study re-evaluating the history of the struggle between orthodoxy and heresy in the early church. Dr Williams argues that the traditional picture of Nicene ascendancy in the western church from 350 - 381 is substantially misleading, and in particular that the …
Gregory of Nyssa's Treatise on the Inscriptions of the Psalms
Inbunden, 1995
3293 kr
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Gregory of Nyssa (c.330-395) made important contributions to both theological thought and the understanding of the spiritual life. He was especially significant in adapting the thought of Origen to fourth century orthodoxy. The early treatise on the inscriptions of the Psalms shows the early stages …
Ascetics and Ambassadors of Christ
The Monasteries of Palestine 314-631
Av John Binns
Häftad, 1996
1115 kr
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The monasteries of the Jerusalem desert were famous throughout the Byzantine Christian world. Yet whilst much has been written about their counterparts in Egypt and Syria, this book is the first to provide a comprehensive study of the monastic movement in Palestine during the Byzantine period, from …
John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus
Annotating the Areopagite
Av Paul Rorem, John C. Lamoreaux
Inbunden, 1998
5239 kr
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John, the sixth-century orthodox bishop of Scythopolis in Palestine, was the first of many authors to comment upon the highly influentional Pseudo-Dionysian writings (such as The Mystical Theology). Here translated and interpreted, John's Prologue and Scholia (marginalia) have only recently been …
Ascetic Eucharists
Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals
Inbunden, 1999
5193 kr
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The early Eucharist has usually been seen as sacramental eating of token bread and wine in careful or even slavish imitation of Jesus and his earliest disciples. In fact the evidence suggests great diversity in its conduct, including the use of foods, in the first few hundred years. Eucharistic …
