Claiming The Mantle Of Cyril

Author : Patrick T.R. Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9042942576

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Claiming the Mantle of Cyril by Patrick T.R. Gray Pdf

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. There are occasional noble acts, and banal activities, but also, as here, one finds a tangled web of plots, counter-plots, and downright lies that even sainted bishops might employ to defend what they held dear. Texts left by the participants, when closely examined, provide rich evidence of this. For instance there is the show trial of Eutyches; papal ultimata; fake capitulations; intentional late arrival; a universal council that never happened, etc. What drove events forward most of all was the defensive strategy Antiochene controversialists developed and refined. They could, they realized, use select texts of Cyril's to co-opt Cyril's authority. They could, that is, claim the mantle of Cyril.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004537897

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The Third Lung: New Trajectories in Syriac Studies by Anonim Pdf

No one mentions Syriac, – a dialect of the Aramaic language Jesus spoke –, without referring to Sebastian P. Brock, the Oxford scholar and teacher who has written and taught about everything Syriac, even reorienting the field as The Third Lung of early Christianity (along with Greek and Latin). In 2018, Syriac scholars world-wide gathered in Sigtuna, Sweden, to celebrate with Sebastian his accomplishments and share new directions. Through essays showing what Syriac studies have attained, where they are going, as well as some arenas and connections previously not imagined, flavors of the fruits of laboring in the field are offered. Contributors to this volume are: Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Shraga Bick, Briouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Alberto Camplani, Thomas A. Carlson, Jeff W. Childers, Muriel Debié, Terry Falla, George A. Kiraz, Sergey Minov, Craig E. Morrison, István Perczel, Anton Pritula, Ilaria Ramelli, Christine Shepardson, Stephen J. Shoemaker, Herman G.B. Teule, Kathleen E. McVey.

Author : Brian P. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136736131

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Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia by Brian P. Bennett Pdf

Church Slavonic, one of the world’s historic sacred languages, has experienced a revival in post-Soviet Russia. Blending religious studies and sociolinguistics, this book looks at Church Slavonic in the contemporary period. It uses Slavonic in order to analyse a number of wider topics, including the renewal and factionalism of the Orthodox Church; the transformation of the Russian language; and the debates about protecting the nation from Western cults and culture.

Author : Mark DelCogliano
Publisher : Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316511145

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The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings: Volume 4, Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond by Mark DelCogliano Pdf

Focuses on early Christian reflection on Christ as God incarnate from ca. 450 CE to the eighth century.

Author : Stephen J. Davis
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617979118

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The Early Coptic Papacy by Stephen J. Davis Pdf

The Copts, adherents of the Egyptian Orthodox Church, today represent the largest Christian community in the Middle East, and their presiding bishops have been accorded the title of pope since the third century AD. This study analyzes the development of the Egyptian papacy from its origins to the rise of Islam. How did the papal office in Egypt evolve as a social and religious institution during the first six and a half centuries AD? How do the developments in the Alexandrian patriarchate reflect larger developments in the Egyptian church as a whole—in its structures of authority and lines of communication, as well as in its social and religious practices? In addressing such questions, Stephen J. Davis examines a wide range of evidence—letters, sermons, theological treatises, and church histories, as well as art, artifacts, and archaeological remains—to discover what the patriarchs did as leaders, how their leadership was represented in public discourses, and how those representations definitively shaped Egyptian Christian identity in late antiquity. The Early Coptic Papacy is Volume 1 of The Popes of Egypt: A History of the Coptic Church and Its Patriarchs. Also available: Volume 2, The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt, 641–1517 (Mark N. Swanson) and Volume 3, The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy (Magdi Girgis, Nelly van Doorn-Harder).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Theology
ISBN : UCBK:C106477367

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Parole de l'Orient by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Allen Michelson
Publisher : Oxford Early Christian Studies
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198722960

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The Practical Christology of Philoxenos of Mabbug by David Allen Michelson Pdf

This text examines doctrinal conflicts concerning the dual nature of Christ in the period after the Council of Chalcedon by considering the life and works of Philoxenos of Mabbug (c.440-523), a Syriac theologian whose surviving corpus amounts to some 500,000 words.

Author : Michael Gaddis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520286245

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There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ by Michael Gaddis Pdf

Focusing on the 4th and 5th centuries, Michael Gaddis explores how various groups employed the language of religious violence to construct their own identities, to undermine the legitimacy of their rivals, & to advance themselves in the competitive & high stakes process of Christianizing the Roman Empire.

Author : H. Clifton Ward,Visiting Assistant Professor of Theological Studies H Clifton Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192863362

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Clement and Scriptural Exegesis by H. Clifton Ward,Visiting Assistant Professor of Theological Studies H Clifton Ward Pdf

How might one describe early Christian exegesis? This question has given rise to a significant reassessment of patristic exegetical practice in recent decades, and H. Clifton Ward makes a new contribution to this reappraisal of patristic exegesis against the background of ancient Greco-Roman education. In tracing the practices of literary analysis and rhetorical memory in the ancient sources, Clement and Scriptural Exegesis argues that there were two modes of archival thinking at the heart of the ancient exegetical enterprise: the grammatical archive, a repository of the textual practices learned from the grammarian, and the memorial archive, the constellations of textual memories from which meaning is constructed. In a new treatment of the theological exegesis of Clement of Alexandria-the first study of its kind in English scholarship-this study suggests that an assessment of the reading practices that Clement employs from these two ancient archives reveals his deep commitment to scriptural interpretation as the foundation of a theological imagination. Clement employs various textual practices from the grammatical archive to navigate the spectrum between the clarity and obscurity of Scripture, resulting in the striking conclusion that the figurative referent of Scripture is one twofold mystery, bound up in the incarnation of Christ and the higher knowledge of the divine life. This twofold scriptural mystery is discovered in an act of rhetorical invention as Clement reads Scripture to uncover the constellations of texts-about God, Christ, and humanity-that frame its entire narrative.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015068879066

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Research in African Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Vol. 1- , spring 1970- , include "A Bibliography of American doctoral dissertations on African literature," compiled by Nancy J. Schmidt.

Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Oxford Early Christian Studies
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198835271

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The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils, Ad 431-451 by Mark S. Smith Pdf

The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils examines the role that appeals to Nicaea (both the council and its creed) played in the major councils of the mid-fifth century. It argues that the conflict between rival construals of Nicaea, and the struggle convincingly to arbitrate between them, represented a key dynamic driving--and unsettling--the conciliar activity of these decades. Mark S. Smith identifies a set of inherited assumptions concerning the role that Nicaea was expected to play in orthodox discourse--namely, that it possessed unique authority as a conciliar event, and sole sufficiency as a credal statement. The fundamental dilemma was thus how such shibboleths could be persuasively reaffirmed in the context of a dispute over Christological doctrine that the resources of the Nicene Creed were inadequate to address, and how the convening of new oecumenical councils could avoid fatally undermining Nicaea's special status. Smith examines the articulation of these contested ideas of 'Nicaea' at the councils of Ephesus I (431), Constantinople (448), Ephesus II (449), and Chalcedon (451). Particular attention is paid to the role of conciliar acta in providing carefully-shaped written contexts within which the Nicene Creed could be read and interpreted. This study proposes that the capacity of the idea of 'Nicaea' for flexible re-expression was a source of opportunity as well as a cause of strife, allowing continuity with the past to be asserted precisely through adaptation and modification, and opening up significant new paths for the articulation of credal and conciliar authority. The work thus combines a detailed historical analysis of the reception of Nicaea in the proceedings of the fifth-century councils, with an examination of the complex delineation of theological 'orthodoxy' in this period. It also reflects more widely on questions of doctrinal development and ecclesial reception in the early church.

Author : Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor,Zacharias (Bishop of Mytilene.),Geoffrey Greatrex
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846314940

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The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor by Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor,Zacharias (Bishop of Mytilene.),Geoffrey Greatrex Pdf

Among the most important sources for the history of the church from the Council of Chalcedon in 451 to the early years of the reign of Justinian is the chronicle attributed to Zachariah of Mytilene. Though Zachariah's Ecclesiastical History was just one of a range of sources cited by this later compiler, so great was its influence that the resultant text bears his name. The chronicle covers both church and secular affairs and includes a wealth of important information about the fifth and sixth centuries, including a history of theological controversies, a catalog of the world's regions based on Ptolemy's Geography, and many eyewitness accounts of key historical events. The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor is the first translation of this seminal text to a modern language in over one hundred years, and the new edition benefits from improvements in Syriac lexicography and expanded research on the source. Contributions from two eminent Syriac scholars—Sebastian P. Brock and Witold Witakowski—and a detailed commentary further enhance the value of this book, as does the substantial bibliography. Beyond a mere translation, this book is a key resource for understanding the development of the modern dynamics of Christianity in Turkey, Iraq, and the Near East.

Author : G. Scott Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136668067

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Religion and Justice in the War Over Bosnia by G. Scott Davis Pdf

This volume brings together a distinguished group of thinkers, working in ethics, religion and history, to explore moral and religious issues that underlie the violence in Bosnia. ********************************************************* This volume brings together a distinguished group of thinkers to explore the moral and religious issues that underlie the violence and atrocities in Bosnia. From diverse academic and philosophical perspectives, the works of Jean Bethke Elshtain, James Turner Johnson, Michael Sells, John Kelsay, and G. Scott Davis will inform not just scholars of ethics, politics and religion, but everyone concerned with the prospects for justice in the post Cold War world.

Author : Cyril J. Barber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725244306

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Ezra and Esther by Cyril J. Barber Pdf

With the publication of this volume Cyril Barber brings to a close thirty years of study and research on the books of Joshua through Esther. His treatment of each of these canonical writings is devotional and was written during his busy pastoral and teaching ministry. The Book of Ezra. Jewish tradition has made Ezra one of the most celebrated personages in all the history of his people. Five great works are attributed to him: (1) The founding of the "Great Synagogue," or synod of learned Jewish scholars; (2) the settlement of the sacred "canon," or recognized list of authoritative Hebrew Scriptures; (3) the establishment of the Hebrew Scriptures in square Assyrian characters; (4) the compilation of the Chronicles, along with the book that now bears his own name, and possibly Psalm 119; and (5) the institution of local synagogues. The Book of Ezra has been looked upon as Israel's "second exodus," for under the leadership of Zerubbabel a large number of Jewish expatriates journeyed from Babylon to Jerusalem, and in spite of many difficulties rebuilt the Temple. Years passed before Ezra led a second group of exiles to Jerusalem. He based all he did on the Word of God, and in his example we have encouragement for a life of godliness in the midst of the present moral and spiritual decline. The Book of Esther. The title of this book is based on its main character, Queen Esther. It fits into the gap between Ezra 6 and 7, and records the events in Babylon prior to and immediately following Xerxes' (Ahasuerus's) attack on Greece. Though there is no mention of God in the book, he is nonetheless active. According to Drs. M'Clintock and Strong, "The character of Esther, as she appears in the Bible, is that of a woman of deep piety, faith, courage, patriotism, and caution, combined with resolution; a dutiful daughter to her adopted father . . . and anxious to share the king's favor with him for the good of her people. She was a virtuous woman, and as far as her situation made it possible, a good wife to the king."

Author : Cyril J. Weir,Ivana Vidaković,Evelina D. Galaczi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107677692

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Measured Constructs by Cyril J. Weir,Ivana Vidaković,Evelina D. Galaczi Pdf

This volume establishes how English language constructs were measured in Cambridge English examinations over the period 1913 to 2012. An addition to the Studies in Language Testing series, this volume provides an overview of English language testing over the last century, with coverage of key theoretical and practical aspects of the assessment of reading, listening, writing and speaking skills. It includes examples of the Cambridge English exams, old and new, and is the first volume to describe in a systematic way the different theoretical influences which have shaped the development of the constructs underlying Cambridge English exams in the last 100 years.