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Peeters Publishers The Armenian Version of the Works Attributed to
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Peeters Publishers The Armenian Version of the Works Attributed to
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Peeters Publishers Vie De Georges De Sagla: T.
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Peeters Publishers Vie De Georges De Sagla: V.
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Peeters Publishers The Commentary on the Books of the Holy Prophets
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Peeters Publishers Studies in the History of the Gospel Text in
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Peeters Publishers La Christianisation De L'Empire Iranien, Des
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Peeters Publishers Gannat Bussame, I. Die Adventssonntage: V.
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Peeters Publishers Quadraginta Historiae Monachorum: V.
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Peeters Publishers Chronicum Anonymum Pseudo-Dionysianum Vulgo
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Peeters Publishers Jacques De Saroug. Quatre Homelies Metriques Sur
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Peeters Publishers Les Onctions Baptismales Dans La Tradition
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Peeters Publishers Mawhub Ibn Mansur Ibn Mufarrig Et
Book SynopsisThis monograph deals with the history of Arabic text of the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria and its Greek and Coptic sources. After an introductory chapter on the state of research concerning this Arabic text and a chapter on its two recensions, it is demonstrated that the work of collecting the sources and translating them into Arabic must be attributed to the Alexandrian layman Mawhub Ibn Mufarrig, who lived in the eleventh century A.D., rather than to the famous theologian, Sawirus (Severus) Ibn al-Muqaffa', bishop of al-Ashumunayn in the mid tenth century, to whom this achievement is traditionally ascribed. The three remaining chapters deal with the precise identification of the Coptic sources, with the method of Coptic-Arabic translation, and with other aspects of Mawhub's editorial work.
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Peeters Publishers The Old Testament Quotations of Philoxenus of
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Peeters Publishers Giyorgis Di Sagla. Il Libro Del Mistero (Mashafa
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Peeters Publishers The Faith of the Unctionists in the Ethiopian
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Peeters Publishers The Faith of the Unctionists in the Ethiopian
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Peeters Publishers Vie De Samu'el De Dabra Halleluya: V.
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Peeters Publishers The Epistle of Humanity of Emperor Zar'A Ya Eqob:
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Peeters Publishers The Epistle of Humanity of Emperor Zar'A Ya Eqob:
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Peeters Publishers The Acts of John: Two-stage Initiation into
Book SynopsisThis study was defended as a dissertation in Groningen (1998). The first monograph in the series, it studies the Acts of John in its second-century context and sheds new light on the text, which was probably written in Asia Minor before the year 150 AD. Lalleman shows that both the Gnostic and the non-Gnostic sections of the Acts of John owe much more to the canonical books of the New Testament than has been assumed. The enigma of the Gnostic section is solved by the discovery that it forms the second stage of initiation into a Gnostic form of Christianity. Read in this way, both sections of the Acts of John turn out to be important steps on the trajectory from the Fourth Gospel to Gnosticism. Penetrating investigations of the Christology and the attitude towards asceticism in the Acts of John complete the book.
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Peeters Publishers George, Bishop of the Arabs. A Homily on Blessed
Book SynopsisThe Homily on Blessed Mar Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, presents a critical edition of the Syriac text with English translation of this vita in memra form composed by George, Bishop of the Arabs (ca. 725). Both volumes are accompanied by introductions. The first describes the manuscripts, which range in date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries, and it establishes a stemma. The text is furnished with an index of Greek cognates. The introduction to the second volume discusses the rhetorical structure, literary sources and theological themes of the homily and evaluates its ascription to George of the Arabs. The translation volume contains Biblical, literary and onomastic indices and a bibliography.
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Peeters Publishers Gregory Barhebraeus Ethicon (Memra I): T.
Book SynopsisThe first book of the Ethicon of Gregory Barhebraeus (d. 1286) contains a description of a number of ascetical practices such as the manner of saying prayers, reading spiritual books, reciting psalms, fasting, living in seclusion, pilgrimage, etc. Barhebraeus' description is partly based on Greek and Syriac authors on the spiritual life. The originality of the work, however, lies in it being influenced by Islamic authors such as Al-Ghazali and B. Sina. This influence causes Barhebraeus to pay attention to basically Islamic concepts as sama, dhikr, etc. Much attention is given to the identification of the sources. In a special appendix one finds the parallel texts of Al-Ghazali's Ilhya 'ulum aldin and the first book of Barhebraeus' Ethicon.
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Peeters Publishers L'Eglise Armenienne Et Le Grand Schisme D'Orient
Book SynopsisCette etude de developpement historique de l'Eglise armenienne durant la periode pre-islamique des grandes controverses christologiques s'adresse particulierement a ses relations avec la Perse sassanide dont l'importance n'a pas ete suffisamment appreciee jusqu'a present dans les analyses de l'etendue de sa propre evolution et des circonstances et causes de sa rupture eventuelle avec les Eglises de Byzance et de Georgie. Cet examen a ete base en large partie sur les documents officiels contemporains qui ont ete traduits in extenso dans son appendice.
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Peeters Publishers John Paul II and World Politics: Twenty Years of
Book SynopsisOne of the few works done recently on the international position of the Holy See. Drawn from a series of lectures given by Colombo Sacco, an Italian diplomat, at the University of Milan and at the Catholic University of Leuven, the book examines the first twenty years of Pope Wojtyla's pontificate, highlighting the Vatican's increasing involvement in international politics. Thus, it illustrates Karol Wojtyla's thought in this field and his guidelines for the development of international law: human rights, the rights of peoples and nations, the right of humanitarian intervention, development cooperation. The volume is completed by an essential bibliography and a selectiion of primary sources.
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Peeters Publishers The Syriac Versions of the De Spiritu Sancto by
Book SynopsisSt. Basil was one of the most popular of the Greek Fathers amongst the Syrian churches, and his De Spiritu Sancto was twice translated into Syriac. The first version, made in the late fourth / early fifth centuries, survives in three manuscripts of the fifth-seventh centuries and is edited and translated here for the first time. It is a paraphrastic text and so is of theological interest in its own right. Its biblical citations are also noteworthy. The second translation, made in the seventh century, survives only in fragments and these have been collected from florilegia manuscripts and edited in parallel with the Greek text. Introductions to the two volumes explore the Syriac manuscript traditions of this work and their significance, and investigate St. Basil's contacts with Syriac-speaking Christians and the theology of the first Syriac version. Unusually, a detailed orthographic index of textual variants is also included.
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Peeters Publishers The Life of Stephen of Mar Sabas: T.: v. 2
Book SynopsisThe present work offers an edition and English translation of the Arabic version of the Life of Stephen of Mar Sabas. When Stephen died in 794 A.D., a vivid account of his life was drawn up within a few years of his death by one of his disciples, Leontius of Damascus. In part autobiographical, Leontius' account offers a unique glimpse into the life of the Palestinian monasteries in the early Islamic period. It also sheds important light on a host of other issues. Among these: the social history of early Islamic Syria and Palestine, the history of the Jerusalem patriarchate, and early Muslim-Christian relations. The present work should be of interest both to scholars of church history and to historians of early Islam.
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Peeters Publishers The Life of Stephen of Mar Sabas: V.: v. 1
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Peeters Publishers The Modern Pilgrim: Multidisciplinary
Book SynopsisThis book is the product of a relatively long history of pilgrimage research in a Dutch theological setting. It is intended as a report for an international audience on this long-running programme. Two lines are followed in the book. The first is the track of liturgical studies, in which an historical, European ethnological and anthropological approach has predominated. The second is a social science track, with specific content coming from psychology of religion. The combination of these two lines has been extremely fruitful. In addition to results of various surveys of contemporary pilgrimage practice and the expansion of research into ritual and cultural context in which modern pilgrims find themselves, special attention is also bestowed on historiographic issues involved in orienting pilgrimage research, and its theoretical and methodological aspects. The places of pilgrimage examined here are Wittem, Dokkum and Amsterdam in The Netherlands, Banneux in Belgium, Lourdes and La Salette in France, and Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The central question which informs the whole study is to what extent one can perhaps speak of a new type of pilgrim today, the "modern pilgrim".
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Peeters Publishers Liturgical Music as Ritual Symbol: A Case Study
Book SynopsisIn this book, Sister Kubicki uses Jacques Berthier's Taize music to explore the nature of liturgical music as ritual symbol. She carries out a hermeneutical analysis of Berthier's chants and examines biographical and historical data related to the creator's of Taize music and the founding of the Taize community. The author draws on five areas of study to interpret the Taize chants as ritual symbol - symbol theory, semiotics, theologies of symbol, ritual theory, and perfomative language theory. The final chapter explores potential ecclesial meanings which may be mediated in the Taize liturgy and the role of Berthier's chants in mediating that meaning. The study concludes that it is music's symbolic property that enables it to be both ministerial and integral to the liturgy. As symbolic activity, music-making evokes participation, negotiates relationships, and enables the assembly to orient themselves and to find their identity and place within their world. Furthermore, music-making provides the illocutionary force to "do something" in the act of singing. Thus it is that as part of a complexus of ritual symbols, music interacts with other symbols, in mediating the liturgy's meaning.
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Peeters Publishers Evidence of Greek Philosophical Concepts in the
Book SynopsisEphrem the Syrian (d. 373) has often been taken to represent an unhellenized Semitic form of Christianity in unbroken continuity with the tradition of Jesus and the apostles. This somewhat romanticized view of Ephrem disregards the fact that Syria had been subject to Greek influence since its conquest centuries earlier by Alexander the Great. Ephrem's own writings however frequently betray a familiarity with Greek philosophical ideas. This book first introduces Ephrem's intellectual context and his attitude towards learning. It then systematically analyzes parallels between Ephrem and Greek writers on the subjects of atomism, space, on corporeals, vision, and the four elements. This study thereby demonstrates that Ephrem draws not only on Semitic cultural traditions, but also on Greek philosophical thought.
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Peeters Publishers Subterranean Rome: In Search of the Roots of
Book SynopsisThe catacombs - the long underground galleries into which the early Christian community of Rome buried its dead - have always fascinated visitors to Rome. Containing the graves of hundreds of thousands of early Christian believers, as well as the tombs of famous martyrs and no less famous popes, the catacombs are truly awe-inspiring places. It is here, in the dark and winding galleries of these enormous subterranean "cities of the dead", that one encounters the earliest physical evidence of a community that changed the course of Western civilization once and for all. In this long-awaited book - the first general study on the catacombs to appear in English in a long time - readers are taken on an underground tour by one of the world's foremost specialists in catacomb archaeology. In addition to providing practical information for those wishing to enter the catacombs as visitors or pilgrims, this book explains how recent archaeological discoveries in the catacombs of Rome have changed (and continue to change) our understanding of how Rome's early Christian community expressed its faith while coping with the realities of everyday life. This book is essential reading for all those wishing to possess an up-to-date manual on why the early Christian and the Jewish catacombs occupy a place of such central importance in the celebrations surrounding the year 2000.
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Peeters Publishers Commentaire De La Caverne Des Tresors. Etude Sur
Book SynopsisLa Caverne des Tresors est un recueil de traditions exegetiques, legendaires et apologetiques, compilees suivant l'ordre des chroniques bibliques et concue comme une version de l'Histoire sainte allant de la creation du monde a la Pentecote. Dans le cadre d'une precedente etude portant sur dix-neuf manuscrits syriaques, nous avons presente les deux recensions (orientales et occidentale) de la Caverne des Tresors. Depuis, grace aux differentes versions, notamment arabe, ethiopienne, karshunie, georgienne et copte, nous avons elargi notre champ de recherche sur les multiples variantes pour eclairer leurs rapports avec les recensions syriaques et plusieurs autres textes apparentes, et en rediger le commentaire integral. Ce commentaire analyse de nombreux indices (onomastiques, terminologiques, phraseologiques et syntaxiques) dans le but d'en degager les sources et les rapports avec les traditions juives, chretiennes et iraniennes des premiers siecles, et avec celles des auteurs syriaques. On decouvre ainsi que la premiere redaction de la Caverne a constitue un manuel pour les chretiens d'Adiabene avant Mar Ephrem.
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Peeters Publishers Exaltation of the Cross: Toward the Origins of
Book SynopsisThe origin, development and spread of the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross is traced on the basis of liturgical sources, and through a careful examination of the liturgical textual material, the meaning of the feast is analyzed with respect to its content. Among the important points receiving attention in this analysis are the place, function and significance of the Cross relic, and the theology of the Cross, or the process whereby the understanding of the Cross was shaped, as that was invested in the feast. The research is based on sources of Western liturgy from the early Middle Ages, and therefore has bearing on the period in the West in which a multiform liturgy, celebrated according to various indigenous local and regional traditions, gradually made way for one uniform Latin liturgy patterned on Roman models. The feast of the Exaltation of the Cross spread through the West from Rome within this context of standardization and Romanization. This raises questions about the uniformity and the Roman content of the feast. This study especially examines to what degree indigenous interpretations of the Cross, which were part of the legacy of the Hispanic and Gallican traditions in particular, continued to be preserved through the liturgical books of the early Middle Ages.
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Peeters Publishers Le Nouveau Manuscrit Georgien Sinaitique N-50. N
Book SynopsisParmi les quelque onze cents manuscrits decouverts a Sainte-Catherine du Sinai a la suite de l'incendie du 26 mai 1975, 141 sont en langue georgienne. Ils ont ete decrits, catalogues et microfilmes grace a quatre missions conduites sur place par Z. Aleksidze entre 1990 et 2000. Le present volume offre une vue d'ensemble de la nouvelle collection et une description detaillee du manuscrit NSin50, du Xe siecle, qui contient "les livres de la conversion du Kartli", c'est-a-dire des redactions anciennes de la chronique sainte Nino et de la vie des Peres syriens sensiblement differentes des textes connus jusqu'a ce jour. Les colophons et notices diverses exterieurs aux oeuvres nous livrent des informations historiques importantes sur l'histoire de la Georgie aux IVe-IXe siecles. La savante introduction de Z. Aleksidze a ete traduite en francais par J.-P. Mahe, qui a ajoute aux notes quelques informations supplementaires. En attendant l'edition critique a venir dans les CSCO, un fac-simile complet du manuscrit, avec indication des references internes de chaque page, permettra aux specialistes de disposer d'un document paleographique interessant, tout en mesurant l'ecart entre le nouveau texte et les editions imprimees.
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Peeters Publishers Israel of Alqosh and Joseph of Telkepe. A Story
Book SynopsisEast-Syrian Christians of Iraqi Kurdistan managed to develop a written literary tradition in Neo-Aramaic, transmitted in manuscripts from the 16th century onwards. A selection of the earliest dated religious poems is now published in a critical edition, with English translation and full concordances to the texts. In the introduction, the salient linguistic and stylistic features of the corpus are placed in their historical context and studied in socio-linguistic, text-critical, literary and anthropological perspectives. The poems are presented as exploring new methods of dealing with the Classical Syriac heritage. Their literary value can only be appreciated as reflecting the aesthetics of a poetic tradition, which is strongly influenced by its oral-aural background. With the work of early vernacular poets as Israel of Alqosh and Joseph of Telkepe, the vernacular language enters the space of liturgical poetry, bringing with it manners and techniques of the folk literary tradition. The multicultural milieu of Iraqi Kurdistan has a certain impact on the transformation of the late East-Syriac literary tradition. Words, motifs and myths, which are shared with the surrounding religious communities - especially Jews and Muslims - are either positively incorporated into Christian poetry or polemically used against those communities.
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Peeters Publishers Pseudo-Athanasius on Virginity: T.
Book SynopsisThis late ancient Christian treatise, preserved in Syriac and falsely attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria (d. 373), exhorts female virgins to be "holy in body and spirit" (1 Cor. 7:34) and to abstain from "all that is in the world - the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches" (1 John 1:16). Drawing on themes developed in the de virginitate literature of the fourth and fifth centuries, the author instructs virgins on their proper physical deportment and use of the five senses, but he incorporates into his work exhortations to purity and repentance originally addressed to a wider audience of male and female ascetics and perhaps even laity. Most likely a translation of a Greek original composed between the fifth and ninth centuries, the treatise is of interest also for its frequent and inventive use of the Bible in support of the ascetic ideal.
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Peeters Publishers Les Maasai Et Le Christianisme: Le Temps Du Grand
Book SynopsisCes dernieres annees le christianisme a commence a gagner un nombre croissant d'adeptes parmi certaines sections des Maasai, societe guerriere de pasteurs semi-nomades occupant un territoire s'etendant au sud du Kenya et au nord de la Tanzanie. Cette expansion recente constitue un fait nouveau qui attend description et explication. Entretemps aucune science n'est encore parvenue a donner une reponse satisfaisante a une question beaucoup plus vieille: pourquoi, pendant plus d'un siecle, l'histoire religieuse de ce peuple, entoure d'ethnies qui ont toutes repondu positivement a l'action missionnaire, a-t-elle ete caracterisee par un refus categorique, oppose avec une constance remarquable, aux efforts des missionnaires occidentaux pour l'attirer vers la religion du Christ?Le livre presente une analyse critique des diverses solutions que sociologues, anthropologues, historiens et missiologues ont proposees pour resoudre une question qu'ils ont ete habitues a considerer comme une enigme et a ressentir comme une croix. La discussion des differentes hypotheses conduit l'auteur a relater divers aspects de l'ecologie, de l'histoire, de l'economie, de la structure sociale, du monde des valeurs, de l'univers symbolique et des methodes de socialisation d'une des societes les plus fascinantes d'Afrique Noire. Au bout du periple il propose sa propre lecture des origines de la resistance maasai, une interpretation dont l'originalite consiste tant dans le rejet de toute "monoculture theorique" que dans le refus des schemes de causalite deterministe. Dans la mesure ou la socialisation des membres d'une societe implique l'interiorisation de normes et de valeurs, il est clair que son impact ne peut etre analyse exclusivement en termes de causes au sens strict du mot, mais aussi en termes d'intentions, d'objectifs, de motifs et de raisons; en d'autres mots il est indiscernable de l'activite par laquelle le sujet octroie a son comportement sens et signification.Avant tout contribution originale a l'anthropologie est-africaine, cet essai interessera egalement les specialistes de l'univers culturel des pasteurs nomades et les etudiants du changement social. Il constitue aussi un echantillon de ce que pourrait etre une missiologie vraiment scientifique.
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Peeters Publishers Legal Position of Churches and Church Autonomy
Book SynopsisThis book includes all papers presented at the colloquium on Church and State on 28 February and 1-2 March 2001. The colloquium, focusing on the legal position of churches, the autonomy of churches in modern societies and recent tendencies in jurisprudence, was organised by the Faculty of Canon Law of the Catholic University Leuven in collaboration with the Faculty of Theology of the University of Stellenbosch. Both the conference and the book have two objectives. The fist is informing about the South African history on Church and State relationships and its current situation under the new Constitution. The second objective is to search for models leading to a new equilibrium between Church and State in South Africa. Models offered by other countries are examined as a point of reference or as a possible source of inspiration. International scholars and academics, church Ministers as well as leading politicians offer their viewpoints and enter into debate with each other.
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Peeters Publishers Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Studies on Jewish
Book SynopsisIn rabbinic parlance, A"Japheth in the tents of ShemA" (Genesis 9:27) has become a proverbial expression for the interaction between Greek and Jewish cultures. The present volume contains 15 studies exploring a wide variety of aspects of the meeting of these cultures in antiquity. In the past 30 years the manifold manifestations of 'Jewish Hellenism' have become the focus of intensive research. The author of this book has played an active part in this field and the essays presented here are the fruits of his most recent research. He investigates, among other things, the extent to which Greek had become the daily language of the Jews (and the Samaritans) in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine; the knowledge of Greek medical lore and science among the rabbis; the development of Greek forms of the synagogal Eighteen Benedictions; the Jewish participation in the Hellenistic-Roman debate about antediluvian knowledge ('wisdom from before the flood'); the background of the surprising phenomenon of voluntary celibacy among ancient Jews; the role of the veneration of the tombs of biblical prophets in Jewish popular religion; the work of the Judaeo-Greek alchemist Maria, who happens to be the first female Jewish author we know of; the life and works of the most notorious anti-Semite from pagan antiquity, Apion, and Josephus' response to him; the Samaritan diaspora in Rome; the attractiveness of Judaism for Christians; et multa cetera. Pieter W. van der Horst (1946) is professor of New Testament and of the Jewish and Hellenistic world of early Christianity at the Faculty of Theology of Utrecht University. He published some 250 articles and books in the fields of early Judaism, ancient Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture, with a special emphasis on their interactions. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Peeters Publishers La Resistance D'Akindynos a Gregoire Palamas.
Book SynopsisEn 1995, le Pere Juan Nadal Canellas editait dans la "Series Graeca" du "Corpus Christianorum" deux refutations, ecrites par Akindynos, d'une oeuvre celebre de Gregoire Palamas, le "Dialogue d'un Orthodoxe avec un Barlaamite". Le texte grec de la plus importante de ces Refutations, ecrite en quatre traites, occupait non moins de 408 pages. De cet enorme ensemble, le P. Nadal publie aujourd'hui une traduction francaise. Elle fait l'objet du t. I, et on notera qu'en preparant cette traduction l'auteur a pu, en plusieurs endroits, ameliorer le texte edite il y a une dizaine d'annees.Quant au t. II, il presente, pourrait-on dire, le cadre historique dans lequel les Refutations ont vu le jour. Akindynos avait succede, apprenons-nous, a Theolepte de Philadelphie comme Pere spirituel de la princesse Irene-Eulogie Choumnaina Paleologina. Devenue, encore tres jeune, veuve de l'heritier de l'empire, celle-ci portait le titre de "basilissa" et etait tres riche; toute devouee a son Pere spirituel, elle l'encourageait et l'appuyait de toutes ses forces; elle fit notamment copier ses oeuvres sur parchemin, ce qui les a sauvees. La correspondance echangee entre Akindynos et Irene-Eulogie a egalement ete conservee en partie et permet de mieux connaitre l'auteur des Refutations et les conditions dans lesquelles il a travaille. La chronologie des annees 1340 a 1345 est egalement eclairee. Apres la mort inattendue d'Andronic III en 1341, on assiste a la montee en puissance du ministre et futur empereur Jean (VI) Cantacuzene et du groupe monastique inspire par Palamas, qui avait ses faveurs. Ces moines ne craignaient pas de tenir des positions pour le moins etonnantes. De la meme facon, disaient-ils, que durant tout l'Ancien Testament, seuls les prophetes ont entrevu le mystere de l'Incarnation et que le commun du peuple aurait trouve inacceptables les verites qu'a revelees le Nouveau Testament, ainsi auusi aujourd'hui certaines verites sont revelees a certaines personnes par la grace de l'Esprit, verites inconnues du Nouveau Testament. Les Palamites pretendaient aussi, notamment, voir la gloire essentielle de Dieu avec les yeux de leur corps "transformes par l'Esprit-Saint". Palamas ne redoutait pas d'employer le meme mot de "divinite" pour designer des realites fort differentes; on en arrivait ainsi a parler de divinites multiples. De telles positions eveillerent la resistance de plusieurs intellectuels, qui voyaient bien a quel point le mouvement rompait, au moins dans l'expression, avec la tradition. Akindynos fut de ceux qui denoncerent rapidement le danger. Mais parmi ceux qui attaquerent les moines, il y eut aussi Barlaam, un Calabrais qui, ne fut-ce que par ses origines, apparaissait comme lie a la Latinite; ceci ne fit surement pas de bien au parti des antipalamites. La lutte fut rude; il y eut des bagarres, des emprisonnements. Elle se termina, en 1351, par le triomphe complet des palamites, mais, chose etonnante, on constate qu'apres sa nomination au siege archiepiscopal de Thessalonique (1349), Palamas, en tant que pasteur, ne semble plus jamais avoir fait allusion aux idees qu'il avait promues auparavant et qui avaient cause tant de debats et tant de malheurs.
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Peeters Publishers La Resistance D'Akindynos a Gregoire Palamas.
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Peeters Publishers Aux Sources De Sheherazade: Contes Et Coutumes
Book SynopsisCet essai conjoint deux disciplines: l'anthropologie des rites et l'histoire des litteratures folkloriques. Le terrain sur lequel il s'appuie a permis d'ouvrir des pistes loin des theories dominantes. Fini le prejuge anthropologique qui, sous pretexte de l'interet porte partout aux guerriers, ne veut croire a des initiations feminines ayant ses propres tabous et rites d'imprecations contre les hommes (cf. Marvin Harris, "Cannibals and Kings", 1977). Un autre prejuge, lui litteraire, veut que les contes de fees soient un terme impropre herite des Classiques mais sans realite folklorique. Les recits populaires, a l'en croire, tourneraient plus autour des quetes ou un heros est confronte a l'invisible qu'autour de lutines entites (cf. J.R.R. Tolkien, "On Fairy-stories", 1947). L'auteur ethnologue et sa femme photographe, admis en Inde et en Iran dans les oratoires prives de femmes zoroastriennes, montrent que les contes qu'elles y recitent invoquent efficacement les Fees.
£120.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. XV - Inaugural Lecture,
Book SynopsisPapers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1975 (see also Studia Patristica 16). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.
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Peeters Publishers Monastica Et Ascetica, Orientalia, e Saeculo
Book SynopsisPapers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1975 (see also Studia Patristica 15). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.
£120.00
Peeters Publishers Spirituality as Insight: Mystical Texts and
Book SynopsisThis book is concerned with mystical texts and theological reflection with reference to spiritual insight. in the first place the author shows, with reference to two great figures in the Christian mystical tradition - Meister Eckhart and John of the Cross - how coming to insight involves a three-fold rhythm: being touched, losing one's sight and the finding of insight as this relates to the quality of life. The author discusses in the next chapters three other authors: Therese of Lisieux, Etty Hillesum and Dag Hammarskjold. They were themselves readers of mystical literature and stand closer to us in time. Current questions of meaning, especially as it relates to suffering, influence the framework in which they viewed quality of life. In their writings one can see an unmistakable growth to an extraordinaryly intensive experience of God which enables them to face life with a more than ordinary power and inspiration.
£25.15
Peeters Publishers Geschichte Des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils,
Book SynopsisDer vierte und vorletzte Band der grosen Konzilsgeschichte, die unter der Leitung des Nestors der historischen Vatikanumsforschung, des Bologneser Kirchenhistorikers Giuseppe Alberigo, von einem international zusammengesetzten Expertenteam geschrieben wird, behandelt die wohl dramatischste Sitzungsperiode des ganzen II. Vatikanums. Drei zentrale Konzilstexte schienen verabschiedungsreif: Kirche, Okumenismus und Religionsfreiheit. Doch die "schwarzen Woche" (settimana nera) im November 1964 brachte massive Rucksichtnahmen auf die Konzilsminoritat, z.B. in der Frage der Kollegialitat der Bischofe. Ein erster Raureif legte sich wahrend dieser "Novemberkrise" auf den Konziliaren Fruhling. Die Vorgange werden detailliert und spannend rekonstruiert von J.A. Komonchak, G. Miccoli, H. Sauer, N. Tanner, L.A. Tagle, R. Burigana, G. Turbanti und G. Alberigo.
£83.60
Peeters Publishers Dionysius Bar Salibi: A Response to the Arabs
Book SynopsisDionysius bar Salibi's apologetic treatise, "A Response to the Arabs", is the longest and most comprehensive dispute text with Muslims that exists in Syriac. Its main purpose is to acquaint the reader with the essential facts pertaining to Islam and to provide apologetic arguments intended to refute the challenges of Islam to the Christian faith. What sets Bar Salibi's treatise apart from other Syriac dispute texts is the information it contains concerning the history and doctrinal development of Islam.The first two discourses deal with the prophet Muhammad, the emergence of Islam, the "Qurian", and the origins and characteristics of the main Islamic schools of thought. The central beliefs of the Christian faith are explained and defended. The third discourse (chapters 25-30) is made up of the most extensive collection of quotations from the "Qurian" translated into Syriac that exists in any known Syriac dispute text. A parallel column contains Bar Salibi's observations and refutations.
£65.00