This comprehensive volume brings together a team of distinguished scholars to create a wide-ranging introduction to patristic authors and their contributions to not only theology and spirituality, but to philosophy, ecclesiology, linguistics, hagiography, liturgics, homiletics, iconology, and other fields.
- Challenges accepted definitions of patristics and the patristic period – in particular questioning the Western framework in which the field has traditionally been constructed
- Includes the work of authors who wrote in languages other than Latin and Greek, including those within the Coptic, Armenian, Syriac, and Arabic Christian traditions
- Examines the reception history of prominent as well as lesser-known figures, debating the role of each, and exploring why many have undergone periods of revived interest
- Offers synthetic accounts of a number of topics central to patristic studies, including scripture, scholasticism, and the Reformation
- Demonstrates the continuing role of these writings in enriching and inspiring our understanding of Christianity
Table of Content
Preface x
Notes on Contributors xi
Part I Introduction 1
1 The Nature and Scope of Patristics 3
Ken Parry
Part II Collecting the Fathers 13
2 Byzantine Florilegia 15
Alexander Alexakis
3 Modern Patrologies 51
Angelo Di Berardino
Part III Studies in Reception History I: Individual Fathers 69
4 Irenaeus of Lyons 71
Denis Minns
5 Clement of Alexandria 84
Piotr Ashwin‐Siejkowski
6 Origen of Alexandria 98
Mark Edwards
7 Athanasius of Alexandria 111
David M. Gwynn
8 Ephrem of Nisibis 126
Andrew Palmer
9 John Chrysostom 141
Wendy Mayer
10 Augustine of Hippo 155
Kazuhiko Demura
11 Cyril of Alexandria 170
Hans van Loon
12 Shenoute of Atripe 184
Janet Timbie
13 Nestorius of Constantinople 197
George Bevan
14 Dionysius the Areopagite 211
István Perczel
15 Severus of Antioch 226
Youhanna Nessim Youssef
16 Gregory the Great 238
Bronwen Neil
17 Maximos the Confessor 250
Andrew Louth
18 John of Damascus 264
Vassilis Adrahtas
19 Gregory of Narek 278
Abraham Terian
20 Gregory Palamas 293
Marcus Plested
Part IV Studies in Reception History II: Collective Fathers 307
21 The Cappadocian Fathers 309
H. Ashley Hall
22 The Desert Fathers and Mothers 326
John Chryssavgis
23 The Iconophile Fathers 338
Vladimir Baranov
Part V Studies in the Fathers 353
24 Scripture and the Fathers 355
Paul Blowers
25 Hagiography of the Greek Fathers 370
Stephanos Efthymiadis
26 Liturgies and the Fathers 385
Hugh Wybrew
27 Fathers and the Church Councils 400
Richard Price
28 The Fathers and Scholasticism 414
James R. Ginther
29 The Fathers and the Reformation 428
Irena Backus
30 The Fathers in Arabic 442
Alexander Treiger
31 The Greek of the Fathers 456
Klaas Bentein
32 The Latin of the Fathers 471
Carolinne White
33 Reimagining Patristics: Critical Theory as a Lens 487
Kim Haines‐Eitzen
Index 497
About the author
KEN PARRY is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He researches and publishes in the fields of late antiquity, Byzantine studies, and Eastern Christianity. He is the founding editor of the series Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, and editor of The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (1999), The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity (2007), and co-editor of Byzantium, Its Neighbours and Its Cultures (2014).
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