Part 1. Mystagogy, apologetics, rhetorics and polemics -- Part. 2. Mystagogy and the introduction to the creed -- Part. 3. Mystagogy and visual symbolism -- Part 4. Mystagogy, liturgical initiation and eucharist -- Part 5.
Everyone knows the series of events that comprised the Nestorian Controversy, but who knows, leaving aside divine agency, how and why events unfolded as they did? In this book an answer is proposed in terms of normal human behavior.
Given such an outlook on religion, it seems understandable that those who take contemporary culture's renewed interest in religion seriously ignored Augustine's work as an authoritative source for 'post-christian' discourse about God.The ...
This work endeavours to use both Nestorius' own Liber Heraclidis, preserved only in Syriac, as well as the unprecedented abundance of primary documents in Greek and Latin from Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum, to answer a question of ...
In The Churches of Syrian Antioch (300-638 CE) Wendy Mayer and Pauline Allen for the first time draw together all of the existing evidence concerning the Christian worship sites of this influential late-antique city, with significantly new ...
In this book, Hans van Loon studies the mystagogy of Cyril of Alexandria (ca. 378-444) as it can be descerned in his twenty-nine extant festal letters.
The book re-establishes solid ground on which this important actor in Early Christianity can be placed and corroborates his engagement in confronting and evangelising pagans.
By any standard, Augustine of Hippo casts an imposing shadow. With a retrospective distance of 1600 years, his influence on Western thought, political structures, religious institutions, and selfhood seems obviously the work if a giant.
The present volume will be important for both literary and historical scholars of the late Roman world, for both Classicists and Medievalists. Book jacket.
The book presents how these figures incorporated this literary legacy into their teachings and melded it with indigenous Syriac spirituality.