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Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement

Author : John Behr
Publisher : Oxford Early Christian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780198270003
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement written by John Behr and published by Oxford Early Christian Studies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement examines the ways in which Irenaeus and Clement understood what it means to be human. By exploring these writings from within their own theological perspectives, John Behr also offers a theological critique of the prevailing approach to the asceticism of Late Antiquity. Writing before monasticism became the dominant paradigm of Christian asceticism, Irenaeus and Clement afford fascinating glimpses of alternative approaches. For Irenaeus, asceticism is the expression of man living the life of God in all dimensions of the body, that which is most characteristically human and in the image of God. Human existence as a physical being includes sexuality as a permanent part of the framework within which males and females grow towards God. In contrast, Clement depicts asceticism as man's attempt at a godlike life to protect the rational element, that which is distinctively human and in the image of God, from any possible disturbance and threat, or from the vulnerability of dependency, especially of a physical or sexual nature. Here human sexuality is strictly limited by the finality of procreation and abandoned in the resurrection. By paying careful attention to these two writers, Behr offers challenging material for the continuing task of understanding ourselves as human beings.

Deification and the Rule of Faith

Author : Daniel E. Wilson, Ph.D.
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490887180
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Deification and the Rule of Faith written by Daniel E. Wilson, Ph.D. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangelicals are often surprised or maybe even shocked whenever they encounter the early Church Fathers’ description of salvation in terms of deification, divinization, or apotheosis. It was Athanasius, the black dwarf, the champion of Nicene orthodoxy, who coined the phrase in his On the Incarnation, “God became man that man might become god.” Hundreds of years before Athanasius, Irenaeus, disciple of Polycarp, disciple of the Apostle John, wrote of Christ’s salvific provision for humanity using similar deification type concepts. Why did these Church Fathers use such seemingly foreign biblical concepts? Could it be that influential theologian, Adolf Harnack, is right and these church Fathers’ implementation of deification reveal that the gospel changed from what Jesus originally intended after being exposed to Hellenistic culture? Not at all, at least, that is what this work argues. It does so, first, by comparing an overall understanding of deification in both Athanasius’ and Irenaeus’ respective writings. This section encompasses the first three chapters, which exhibit how the Fathers’ use of deification is immersed in their respective descriptions of salvation history, the Trinity, and Christology. Further, this work assesses Harnack’s proposal by comparing the Fathers’ respective descriptions of deification with that of many Greek and Roman philosophers. Finally, this work seeks to propose that both Irenaeus and Athanasius contextualize the gospel by comparing the Father’s respective descriptions of deification with their respective understandings of scriptural authority and the rule of faith.

Irenaeus and Paul

Author : Todd D. Still
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567693309
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Irenaeus and Paul written by Todd D. Still and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the work of Tertullian and Paul and The Apostolic Fathers and Paul, this volume continues a series of specially commissioned studies by leading voices in New Testament/early Christianity and patristics studies to consider how Paul was read, interpreted and received by the early Church Fathers. In this volume the use of Paul's writings is examined within the writings of Irenaeus of Lyon. Issues of influence, reception, theology and history are examined to show how Paul's work influenced the developing theology of the early Church. The literary style of Paul's output is also examined. The contributors to the volume represent leading lights in the study of Irenaeus, as well as respected names from the field of New Testament studies.

Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World

Author : Richard Damian Finn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521862817
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World written by Richard Damian Finn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pagan asceticism: cultic and contemplative purity -- Asceticism in Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism -- Christian asceticism before Origen -- Origen and his ascetic legacy -- Cavemen, cenobites, and clerics.

The Eschatological Economy

Author : Douglas H. Knight
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532691009
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Eschatological Economy written by Douglas H. Knight and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Irenaeus of Lyons

Author : John Behr
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191667811
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Irenaeus of Lyons written by John Behr and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a full, contextual study of St Irenaeus of Lyons, the first great theologian of the Christian tradition. John Behr sets Irenaeus both within his own context of the second century, a fundamental period for the formation of Christian identity, elaborating the distinction between orthodoxy and heresy and expounding a comprehensive theological vision, and also within our own contemporary context, in which these issues are very much alive again. Against the commonly-held position that 'orthodoxy' was established by excluding others, the 'heretics', Behr argues that it was the self-chosen separation of the heretics that provided the occasion for those who remained together to clarify the lineaments of their faith in a church that was catholic by virtue of embracing different voices in a symphony of many voices and whose chief architect was Irenaeus, who, as befits his name, urged peace and toleration. The first chapter explores Irenaeus' background in Asia Minor, as a disciple of Polycarp of Smyrna, his activity in Gaul, and his involvement with the Christian communities in Rome. The theological and institutional significance of his interventions is made clear by tracing the coalescence of the initially fractionated communities in Rome into a united body over the first two centuries. The second chapter provides a full examination of Irenaeus' surviving writings, concentrating especially on the literary and rhetorical structure of his five books Against the Heresies, his 'refutation and overthrowal' of his opponents in the first two books, and his establishing a framework for articulating orthodoxy. The final chapter explores the theological vision of Irenaeus itself, on its own terms rather than the categories of later dogmatic theology, grounded in an apostolic reading of Scripture and presenting a vibrant and vigorous account of the diachronic and synchronic economy or plan of God, seen through the work of Christ which reveals how the Hands of God have been at work from the beginning, fashioning the creature, made from mud and animated with a breath of life, into his own image and likeness, vivified by the Holy Spirit, to become a 'living human being, the glory of God'.

Alexandrian Legacy

Author : Mario Baghos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443881228
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Alexandrian Legacy written by Mario Baghos and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together contributions exploring a range of aspects of the Alexandrian patristic tradition from the second half of the second century to the first half of the fifth century, a tradition whose complex and significant legacy is at times misunderstood and, in some quarters, wholly neglected. With contributions by both Australian and international scholars, the fourteen chapters here highlight that, behind the complexity of this tradition, one finds a vibrant Christian spirit – granted, one that has successfully put on the flesh of Hellenistic culture – and a consistent striving towards the reformation and transformation of the human being according to the gospel. Furthermore, this volume contributes a nuanced voice to the scholarly choir which already hums a new song about Christian Alexandria and its representatives. Indeed, these contributions are interdisciplinary in approach, combining methods pertaining to the fields of historiography, theology and philosophy, pastoral care, hermeneutics, hagiography, and spirituality. By way of this complex approach, this book brings together areas which currently evolve in separate scholarly universes, which is wholly befitting to the complexities entailed by the ever-challenging Alexandrian legacy.

Our Godly Sexual Beings

Author : Donna Mack with Kristi Miller
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Our Godly Sexual Beings written by Donna Mack with Kristi Miller and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Godly Sexual Beings explores scripture and other ancient texts to unveil one of humanity's great mysteries--God's purpose for designing our Godly sexual beings. After thirty years of committed research and study, Donna Mack perceived an essential missing link from the age-old battle of God vs. Satan. While other books have attempted to discuss human sexuality, none have done so with as many biblical and scholarly-backed references as Our Godly Sexual Beings. One fascinating revelation in scripture is just how sacred human sexuality exists for God. The Bible sings with this truth, and Donna dives into this mystery to reveal the greatest love story ever told! With the help of over 1,300 references, Donna uncovers God's design for sex and Satan's influence that morphed this gift into a lie of lust. This book is full of many revelations and truths that will allow the reader to experience freedom from sexual sin, shame, and bondage.

Sin in Origen’s Commentary on Romans

Author : Stephen Bagby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1978701098
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book Sin in Origen’s Commentary on Romans written by Stephen Bagby and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sin in Origen’s Commentary on Romans examines Origen as a critical third century voice seeking to articulate a cogent doctrine of sin, and presents his magisterial Commentary on Romans as a unique window to understanding his mature thought on the subject. It argues that Origen’s teaching on original and volitional sin demonstrates continuity with and divergence from the prevailing theological tradition. It offers a substantial, revisionist account of the thought of one of the most important thinkers in early Christianity and takes up important anthropological and soteriological questions in Origen, as presented in a key, but often neglected text, in Origen’s corpus of biblical commentary.

Re-envisioning Christian Humanism

Author : Jens Zimmermann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198778783
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Re-envisioning Christian Humanism written by Jens Zimmermann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited volume aiming to recover a Christian humanist ethos. It provides a historical overview and individual examples of past Christian humanisms.

On Liturgical Asceticism

Author : David W. Fagerberg
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 081322117X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book On Liturgical Asceticism written by David W. Fagerberg and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the Eastern Orthodox tradition of asceticism and integrating it with recent Western thought on liturgy, David W. Fagerberg examines the interaction between the two and presents a powerful argument that asceticism is necessary for understanding liturgy as the foundation of theology

Eusebius and Empire

Author : James Corke-Webster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108682049
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Eusebius and Empire written by James Corke-Webster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, written in the early fourth century, continues to serve as our primary gateway to a crucial three hundred year period: the rise of early Christianity under the Roman Empire. In this volume, James Corke-Webster undertakes the first systematic study considering the History in the light of its fourth-century circumstances as well as its author's personal history, intellectual commitments, and literary abilities. He argues that the Ecclesiastical History is not simply an attempt to record the past history of Christianity, but a sophisticated mission statement that uses events and individuals from that past to mould a new vision of Christianity tailored to Eusebius' fourth-century context. He presents elite Graeco-Roman Christians with a picture of their faith that smooths off its rough edges and misrepresents its size, extent, nature, and relationship to Rome. Ultimately, Eusebius suggests that Christianity was - and always had been - the Empire's natural heir.

Resurrection as Salvation

Author : Thomas D. McGlothlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108426565
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Resurrection as Salvation written by Thomas D. McGlothlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how Paul's tight link between resurrection and salvation both raised problems for and profoundly shaped Early Christian theology.

Clement of Alexandria

Author : Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056741812X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis Clement of Alexandria by : Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski

Download or read book Clement of Alexandria written by Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Clement's project which brings together ethical, intellectual and spiritual development of a Christian while highlighting the need of search for integrity in the life of faith and reason. Approaches to Clement have traditionally either assessed the philosophical context of his thought or studied the adaptation of Greek legacy into a new Christian context as underpinning Clement's work. In this new study Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski challenges and develops these approaches providing new and refreshing insights into Clement's understanding of Christian perfection.

Specters of Paul

Author : Benjamin H. Dunning
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204352
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Specters of Paul written by Benjamin H. Dunning and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Christians operated with a hierarchical model of sexual difference common to the ancient Mediterranean, with women considered to be lesser versions of men. Yet sexual difference was not completely stable as a conceptual category across the spectrum of formative Christian thinking. Rather, early Christians found ways to exercise theological creativity and to think differently from one another as they probed the enigma of sexually differentiated bodies. In Specters of Paul, Benjamin H. Dunning explores this variety in second- and third-century Christian thought with particular attention to the ways the legacy of the apostle Paul fueled, shaped, and also constrained approaches to the issue. Paul articulates his vision of what it means to be human primarily by situating human beings between two poles: creation (Adam) and resurrection (Christ). But within this framework, where does one place the figure of Eve—and the difference that her female body represents? Dunning demonstrates that this dilemma impacted a range of Christian thinkers in the centuries immediately following the apostle, including Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus of Lyons, Tertullian of Carthage, and authors from the Nag Hammadi corpus. While each of these thinkers attempts to give the difference of the feminine a coherent place within a Pauline typological framework, Dunning shows that they all fail to deliver fully on the coherence that they promise. Instead, sexual difference haunts the Pauline discourse of identity and sameness as the difference that can be neither fully assimilated nor fully ejected—a conclusion with important implications not only for early Christian history but also for feminist and queer philosophy and theology.

Resurrecting Parts

Author : Taylor Petrey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317442970
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Resurrecting Parts written by Taylor Petrey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late second and early third centuries C.E. the resurrection became a central question for intellectual commentary, with increasingly tense divisions between those who interpreted the resurrection as a bodily experience and those who did not. The relationship between the resurrected person and their mortal flesh was also a key point of discussion, especially in regards to sexual desires, body parts, and practices. Early Christians struggled to articulate how and why these bodily features related to the imagined resurrected self. The problems posed by the resurrection thus provoked theological analysis of the mortal body, sexual desire and gender. Resurrecting Parts is the first study to examine the place of gender and sexuality in early Christian debates on the nature of resurrection, investigating how the resurrected body has been interpreted by writers of this period in order to address the nature of sexuality and sexual difference. In particular, Petrey considers the instability of early Christian attempts to separate maleness and femaleness. Bodily parts commonly signified sexual difference, yet it was widely thought that future resurrected bodies would not experience desire or reproduction. In the absence of sexuality, this insistence on difference became difficult to maintain. To achieve a common, shared identity and status for the resurrected body that nevertheless preserved sexual difference, treatises on the resurrection found it necessary to explain how and in what way these parts would be transformed in the resurrection, shedding all associations with sexual desires, acts, and reproduction. Exploring a range of early Christian sources, from the Greek and Latin fathers to the authors of the Nag Hammadi writings, Resurrecting Parts is a fascinating resource for scholars interested in gender and sexuality in classical antiquity, early Christianity, asceticism, and, of course, the resurrection and the body.

Since the Beginning

Author : Kyle R. Greenwood
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493411330
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Since the Beginning written by Kyle R. Greenwood and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few passages in the Hebrew Bible have been subject to more scrutiny than Genesis 1 and 2. In this volume, a diverse international team of experts guides readers through interpretations of the Genesis creation stories throughout history, inviting them to consider perspectives from the earliest times to the present. The book offers an accurate description of how these chapters have been read through the centuries, explaining each interpretive approach in its own terms. Each chapter includes sidebars and suggestions for further reading.