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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Frances M Young; Andrew Teal |
| ISBN: | 9780801039157 0801039150 |
| OCLC Number: | 548412808 |
| Description: | x, 406 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The birth of church history and its sequel -- Eusebius of Caesarea -- Eusebius' successors -- 2. Athanasius and the shaping of Nicene theology -- Arius -- Athanasius : the legend and the critique -- The fundamentals of Athanasiusʹ theology : 'contra gentes-de incarnatione' -- Marcellus : ally or embarrassment? -- Orations against the Arians -- Self-justification, retrospective history and shifting theological alliances -- Other works -- 3. Heroes of the faith : the literature of the desert -- Athanasius and the 'Life of Antony' -- The histories : the 'Lausiac History' and the 'Historia Monachorum' -- The 'Apophthegmata Patrum' -- Didymus the Blind -- Evagrius Ponticus -- The "Macarian" homilies -- Theodoret's 'Historia Religiosa' -- 4. The Cappadocians -- Biographical -- Withdrawal and involvement -- Christianity and contemporary culture -- Basil and the ascetic movement -- The dogmatic debates -- Gregory the Theologian -- Gregory of Nyssa and Neoplatonic mysticism -- Preachers and teachers of the church -- 5. The Temper of the times : some contrasting characters of the late fourth century -- Ephrem the Syrian -- Cyril of Jerusalem -- Epiphanius of Salamis -- John Chrysostom -- Nemesius of Emesa -- Synesius of Cyrene -- 6. The literature of Christological controversy -- Introduction : Eustathius -- Apollinarius and Diodore -- Theodore of Mopsuestia -- Polemical correspondence and a pamphlet war -- Nestorius -- Cyril of Alexandria -- Theodoret of Cyrus. |
| Responsibility: | Frances M. Young ; with Andrew Teal. |
Abstract:
In this volume, a world-renowned scholar of early Christianity updates and expands her survey of the writers and writings of the golden age of Greek patristic theology.--From publisher description
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