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Book Synopsis Methodius of Olympus by : Katharina Bracht
Download or read book Methodius of Olympus written by Katharina Bracht and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methodius of Olympus († ca. 311 CE) is regarded as a key author in 3rd c Christian theology. In recent years, his works have become objects of intense research interest on the part of Church historians, classical Greek and Paleoslavic philologists, and scholars of Armenia. The essays in this volume examine the current state of research, enhance our understanding of Methodius with valuable new information, and open up new research perspectives.
Book Synopsis Methodius of Olympus by : Lloyd George Patterson
Download or read book Methodius of Olympus written by Lloyd George Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methodius of Olympus (d. ca. A.D. 310) played a significant role in the theological developments of the late third and early fourth centuries. His writings constitute the largest body of Greek Christian works to survive from the late third century--other than those of Eusebius of Caesarea--and provide important insight into Christian thought from an otherwise poorly documented period. Surprisingly, however, Methodius' writings have been studied only incidentally and mainly for their influential criticism of Origen's views. Little interest has been shown in Methodius himself or in his place in the theological trends of his time. Going beyond the ""incidental"" interests commonly analyzed, this book studies Methodius the person and provides a much-needed framework for reconsidering Methodius' contribution to the issues of the period. L. G. Patterson offers a close analysis of Methodius' writings with respect to their literary style, their use of earlier writers--particularly, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen--and their unfolding theological preoccupations. In considering Methodius' criticism of Origen, Patterson expands the traditional scope of analysis and reflects on the origin and context of the misrepresentations of Origen underlying this criticism. Patterson attributes these misrepresentations to Methodius' growing conviction that Origen, by whom he was profoundly influenced, had unwittingly embraced a dualistic cosmology of the sort which Methodius himself opposed. Patterson explains the underlying issues of Methodius' work--divine sovereignty, human freedom, and life in Christ--in light of his commitment to the ascetic life as central to Christian existence, and discusses Methodius' influence on major figures of the fourth century, mainly Arius and Gregory of Nyssa. The book is a significant contribution to the study of early Christian theology. It will be of particular interest to scholars studying Origen, early Arianism, the Cappadocian fathers, and the later Origenist controversies, as well as to students of early Christian asceticism. L. G. Patterson, a priest in the Episcopal Church, is professor of historical theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His long-standing interest in Methodius has been reflected in articles published in the proceedings of Colloquium Origenianum and theInternational Conference on Patristic Studies, as well as in papers presented to the North American Patristic Society. ""The study is not only informative but also enjoyable, and it sheds much light on an important but not widely known author of early Christianity.""--Vigiliae Christianae Table of Contents: Preface Introduction 1. The Author of the Writings 2. De libero arbitrio: Dualism and the Problem of Evil 3. The Symposium: Chastity and the Plan of Salvation 4. Origen in the Symposium 5. De resurrectione and the Initial Criticism of Origen 6. De creatis and the Later Criticism of Origen Conclusion Appendix 1: The De lepra among Methodius' Writings Appendix 2: The Hymn of Thecla and the Purpose of the Symposium Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects
Book Synopsis The Symposium by : Saint Methodius (of Olympus)
Download or read book The Symposium written by Saint Methodius (of Olympus) and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Symposium, or Banquet, is a dialogue in imitation of Plato, written by Methodius, a teacher and probably a bishop, who flourished in Lycia during the period known as the Little Peace of the Church. It is perhaps the most beautiful symbolic prose-poem of the early patristic period.
Book Synopsis The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature by : Dawn LaValle Norman
Download or read book The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature written by Dawn LaValle Norman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early Christian dialogue with an all-female cast makes us rethink how literature was changing during the third century CE.
Download or read book Biblica written by Maurice F. Wiles and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis God in Early Christian Thought by : Andrew Brian McGowan
Download or read book God in Early Christian Thought written by Andrew Brian McGowan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the diversity of early Christian thought and practice is now generally assumed, and the experiences and beliefs of Christians beyond the works of great theologians increasingly valued, the question of God is perennial and fundamental. These essays, individually modest in scope, seek to address that largest of questions using particular issues and problems, or single thinkers and distinct texts. They include studies of doctrine and theology as traditionally conceived, but also of understandings of God among the early Christians that emerge from study of liturgy, art, and asceticism, and in relation to the social order and to nature itself.
Book Synopsis Methodius of Olympus: De lepra by : Katharina Bracht
Download or read book Methodius of Olympus: De lepra written by Katharina Bracht and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies and analyses the work De lepra by Greek church father Methodius of Olympus (3rd/4th century). The dialogue, which delves into the Old Testament legislation on leprosy in Leviticus 13, is approached from an interdisciplinary perspective, including ecclesiastical history, Slavonic studies, and editorial studies. The contributions serve as a complement to the publication of the Greek and Old Slavonic text of De lepra.
Book Synopsis The Writings of Methodius, Alexander of Lycopolis, Peter of Alexandria, and Several Fragments by : Saint Methodius (of Olympus)
Download or read book The Writings of Methodius, Alexander of Lycopolis, Peter of Alexandria, and Several Fragments written by Saint Methodius (of Olympus) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Resurrection as Salvation by : Thomas D. McGlothlin
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 is the first study to focus on the reception of Paul's link between resurrection and salvation, revealing its profound effect on early Christian theology - not only eschatology, but also anthropology, pneumatology, ethics, and soteriology. Thomas D. McGlothlin traces the roots of the strong tension on the matter in ancient Judaism and then offers deep readings of the topic by key theologians of pre-Nicene Christianity, who argued on both sides of the issue of the fleshliness of the resurrected body. McGlothlin unravels the surprising continuities that emerge between Irenaeus, Origen, and the Valentinians, as well as deep disagreements between allies like Irenaeus and Tertullian.
Book Synopsis The Church History of Rufinus of Aquileia by : Rufinus of Aquilea
Download or read book The Church History of Rufinus of Aquileia written by Rufinus of Aquilea and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-25 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidon offers the first English translation of Books 10 and 11 of Rufinus' Church History. Books 1-9 comprise a Latin translation of Eusebius' history. Books 10 and 11 are Rufinus' own continuation, covering the period 325-395. As the first Latin church history, this work exerted great influence over the subsequent scholarship of the Western Church.
Book Synopsis Methodius of Olympus : Symposium by : H. Musurillo (trans)
Download or read book Methodius of Olympus : Symposium written by H. Musurillo (trans) and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cyril and Methodius of Thessalonica by : Anthony-Emil N. Tachiaos
Download or read book Cyril and Methodius of Thessalonica written by Anthony-Emil N. Tachiaos and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the height of the tumultuous developments taking place in Central and Eastern Europe in the ninth century, two Greek missionaries from Thessalonica came to the fore. Their work of acculturation among the Slavs, had far-reaching and lasting changes upon European life. This book looks back over the life and work of these two outstanding figures and analyzes their ecclesiastical and cultural mission. Their presence in the Crimea was closely bound up with several aspects of Byzantium's ecclesiastical policy and programs of acculturation, and also with the Russians' first encounter with Christianity." "In presenting the Slavs with an alphabet and the written work, the brothers transmitted to them the world, and thus it was in Cyril and Methodius' time, and thanks to their work, that Great Moravia reached the height of its vigor and prosperity as a central European state. The Cyrillo-Methodian tradition lived on, spreading among the Slavic peoples and laying the foundation of their spiritual life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Methodius von Olympus by : Methodius (Olympius.)
Download or read book Methodius von Olympus written by Methodius (Olympius.) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Christians in Conversation by : Alberto Rigolio
Download or read book Christians in Conversation written by Alberto Rigolio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a particular and little-known form of writing, the prose dialogue, during the Late Antique period, when Christian authors adopted and transformed the dialogue form to suit the new needs of religious debate. Connected to, but departing from, the dialogues of Classical Antiquity, these new forms staged encounters between Christians and pagans, Jews, Manichaeans, and "heretical" fellow Christians. At times fiction, at others records of, or scripts for, actual debates, the dialogues give us a glimpse of Late Antique rhetoric as it was practiced and tell us about the theological arguments underpinning religious differences. By offering the first comprehensive analysis of Christian dialogues in Greek and Syriac from the earliest examples to the end of the sixth century CE, the present volume shows that Christian authors saw the dialogue form as a suitable vehicle for argument and apologetic in the context of religious controversy and argues that dialogues were intended as effective tools of opinion formation in Late Antique society. Most Christian dialogues are little studied, and often in isolation, but they vividly evoke the religious debates of the time and they embody the cultural conventions and refinements that Late Antique men and women expected from such debates.
Book Synopsis The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 by : Caroline Walker Bynum
Download or read book The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 written by Caroline Walker Bynum and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bynum examines several periods between the 3rd and 14th centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology, and suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose from these discussions still undergird our modern notions of the individual. He explores the "plethora of ideas about resurrection in patristic and medieval literature--the metaphors, tropes, and arguments in which the ideas were garbed, their context and their consequences," in order to understand human life after death.
Book Synopsis The Apologists and Paul by : Todd D. Still
Download or read book The Apologists and Paul written by Todd D. Still and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the use of Paul's writing within the work of ante-Nicene apologetic writers. It takes apologetics as a broad genre in which many early Christian writers participated, offering rhetorical defenses for emerging aspects of doctrine, rooted in understanding of the scriptures, and often specifically the writings of Paul. The volume interacts with the writings of many significant 'apologetic' writers, including: Melito of Sardis, Clement of Alexandria, Tatian, Tertullian, Hippolytus and Cyprian. The chapters examine how these early Christian writers used the letters of Paul to develop their own philosophical ideas and defenses of aspects of the emerging Christian faith. The internationally renowned contributors have all been specially commissioned for this volume, and an afterword by Todd D. Still considers the question of whether or not Paul was an 'apologist' himself.
Book Synopsis More Than a Memory by : Johan Leemans
Download or read book More Than a Memory written by Johan Leemans and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout its history, persecutions and martyrdom have been Christianity's faithful companions. Remarkably enough, Christians have always valued martyrdom in a positive way. This positive evaluation of martyrdom most certainly has to do with the absolute, uncompromising nature of it. The martyrs' lives and deaths represent the most uncompromising of answers to the divine call. The focus of the contributions in this volume is not in the first place on reconstructing the historical events of the martyr's life and death "wie es eigentlich gewesen ist," but on the discourse generated by this event as mediated in texts. More than a Memory aims to explore the reciprocal relationship between this discourse of martyrdom and the construction of Christian identity. It will do so by presenting a number of test cases in which this dynamic can be seen at work. They will lead the reader through the entire history of Christianity, starting with the Martyrdom of Lyons and Vienne in the second century and ending in the Latin America of the 1960's. Each article will present a test case of discourse-analysis, attempting to explore the issue of how a document or coherent group of documents contributed to create a distinct Christian identity. Taken together, the essays provide an array of examples of how martyrdom impinged on the way Christian identity has been negotiated in the Christian past. In doing this, the volume at the same time illustrates the sheer importance of martyrdom and the reflection and writing about it throughout the history of Christianity until today.
