History of religion Books
Peeters Publishers Geschichte als Argument? Historiographie und
Book SynopsisWo wird mit Geschichtskenntnissen argumentiert? Wo wird Geschichte für theologische, politische oder andere Zwecke nutzbar gemacht? Wo wird Geschichte interessengeleitet geschrieben? Gar instrumentalisiert und zurechtgebogen? Der vorliegende Band geht solchen Fragen in Bezug auf das antike Christentum nach. Dabei kommt das Verhältnis zweier literarischer Gattungen in den Blick: Historiographie und Apologetik. Christliche Geschichtsschreibung hat mit apologetischen Motiven begonnen ("Altersbeweis") und bleibt in unterschiedlicher Form davon geprägt. Patristiker, Philologen, Althistoriker und Mediävisten beleuchten das Themenfeld von verschiedenen Seiten. Die Beiträge gehen auf die Tagung der patristischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Basel im Jahr 2013 zurück. Die Linien werden bis in die frühe Neuzeit ausgezogen, denn die reformatorische Historiographie und der frühe Basler Buchdruck bilden den oberen zeitlichen Horizont des Bandes.
£57.00
Peeters Publishers Die Briefe 30-39 des ostsyrischen Patriarchen
Book SynopsisDie vorliegenden Bände veröffentlichen die Briefe 30-39 des ostsyrischen Patriarchen Timotheos erstmals auf breiter Handschriftenbasis und mit einer Übersetzung in einer modernen Sprache. In den langen Briefen 34-36 entwirft Timotheos eine eigentliche Bibelhermeneutik in Auseinandersetzung mit dem Islam. Zentral dabei ist die Interpretation des Titels «Diener» für Christus. Er war schon im frühen Christentum in Auslegung der Gottesknechtslieder bei Deuterojesaja gebräuchlich, wurde nun aber in der Diskussion mit dem Islam problematisch, denn er schien auszusagen, dass Jesus nur ein Prophet sei. Die Briefe 30-33 und 37 geben Einblick in die früheste Überlieferungsgeschichte der Briefe 34-36. In den Briefen 38 und 39 stellt sich Timotheos der Frage, wie Texte von Gregor von Nazianz zu verstehen sind, welche in den Konzilsakten von Ephesos zur Verurteilung des Nestorius verwendet werden.
£124.00
Peeters Publishers Die Briefe 30-39 des ostsyrischen Patriarchen
Book SynopsisDie vorliegenden Bände veröffentlichen die Briefe 30-39 des ostsyrischen Patriarchen Timotheos erstmals auf breiter Handschriftenbasis und mit einer Übersetzung in einer modernen Sprache. In den langen Briefen 34-36 entwirft Timotheos eine eigentliche Bibelhermeneutik in Auseinandersetzung mit dem Islam. Zentral dabei ist die Interpretation des Titels «Diener» für Christus. Er war schon im frühen Christentum in Auslegung der Gottesknechtslieder bei Deuterojesaja gebräuchlich, wurde nun aber in der Diskussion mit dem Islam problematisch, denn er schien auszusagen, dass Jesus nur ein Prophet sei. Die Briefe 30-33 und 37 geben Einblick in die früheste Überlieferungsgeschichte der Briefe 34-36. In den Briefen 38 und 39 stellt sich Timotheos der Frage, wie Texte von Gregor von Nazianz zu verstehen sind, welche in den Konzilsakten von Ephesos zur Verurteilung des Nestorius verwendet werden.
£128.46
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXIV - Including Papers
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£110.00
Peeters Publishers The Normativity of History: Theological Truth and
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays engages the basic themes of the five-year, joint research project (GOA) The Normativity of History. The project brought together specialists in the areas of Church History and Systematic Theology to investigate questions of truth and tradition in light of their varying expertise. The thematic scope of this volume includes questions concerning tradition and its development, the present context of plurality and its challenges for discerning a theological epistemology of tradition-bound truth, and the challenges of religious diversity for contemporary theology. As a whole, these reflections suggest that the force and weight of history must be adequately accounted for when attempting to answer theological questions in a manner that does justice to a tradition that is very much embedded in and shaped by the complexities manifest in its living and at times, ambiguous history.
£78.00
Peeters Publishers Tertullian's Preface to Marcion's Gospel
Book SynopsisOver the past few years, scholarship has taken a new interest in the study of Marcion and particularly in his Gospel. Most recently several attempts have been made at reconstructing this Gospel, and its role in the Synoptic question is being discussed. One of the most detailed and crucial information that we possess derives from Tertullian’s preface to Marcion’s Gospel and his Antitheses with which Marcion himself introduced and defended his Gospel against earlier misuses. The present monograph first looks at Tertullian’s ways of prefacing his works to then move to his preface of his antimarcionite writings, especially Adversus Marcionem, to then give the text, translation and a close reading and interpretation of his introduction to the Antitheses and Marcion’s Gospel in the extended preface to book IV of Adversus Marcionem. As a result, the reader will get a better understanding of both Tertullian’s literary response to Marcion and Marcion’s Antitheses and his Gospel, but also gain glimpses of what despite all the rhetoric historically might have provoked Tertullian’s response, namely more intellectual proximity between the two interlocutors than the battle on the surface would intimate.
£86.00
Peeters Publishers Symbolic Interpretations in Ethiopic and Early
Book SynopsisThe palimpsest of Ethiopian Christianity reveals the possible impact and influence of several hands: Judaic, Egyptian, and Syrian. This book investigates the influence of Syrian Christianity upon the trajectory of Ethiopian Christianity, proposing that many of the so-called 'Judaic' practices may have arisen through interaction with Judeo-Christian Syriac Christianity, rather than from an Old Testament context, exploring Ethiopic and Syrian literary links using Ge'ez, Amharic and Syriac sources to show how Syrian and Ethiopic traditions relate. The symbolic motifs of the Ark and the Cross, as well as the perception of Paradise are explored in Ethiopic hymnody or Deggwa of St Yared, the andemta Bible commentaries, and the national epic, the Kebrä Nägäst, compared with Syriac works of the fourth century Syriac theologian-poet Ephrem, his later devotee Jacob of Serugh, and the earlier Syriac Odes to Solomon. The material common to Ethiopic and Syriac literature demonstrates the complexity of the Judeo-Christian thought-worlds from which they derived, implying more nuanced influences than have previously been postulated.
£97.85
Peeters Publishers Domus prope Buscumducis: Bronnen voor de
Book SynopsisHet kartuizerklooster in de Meierij van 's-Hertogenbosch werd in 1466 vanuit het klooster in Roermond gesticht. In dat jaar betrok de beroemde kartuizer Dionysius van Rijkel met enkele metgezellen een kloostertje in Olland bij Sint-Oedenrode. Na ruim een jaar verhuisde de gemeenschap al naar Den Dungen bij 's-Hertogenbosch. In 1472 vestigde het zich definitief in het nabijgelegen Vught. Daar woonden de kloosterlingen totdat het geweld van de Beeldenstorm hen daar in 1566 verdreef. Na een zwerftocht door de Meierij en een verblijf van bijna twintig jaar in 's-Hertogenbosch, werden de laatste kloosterlingen vanaf 1625 opgenomen in het nieuwe kartuizerklooster in Antwerpen, dat hun erfgenaam werd. Deze bundel bevat de volgende onderdelen over dit klooster: een overzicht over de historische en economische ontwikkelingen; de kloosterkroniek, geschreven door Gerardus Eligii; zijn vita; het kalendarium van het klooster; en ten slotte een demografische studie en een prosopografisch overzicht van alle kloosterbewoners.
£84.00
Peeters Publishers The Human Factor: 'Deification' as Transformation
Book SynopsisThis study focuses on two significant but overlooked aspects of Hilary of Poitiers' theology: his interpretation of how we 'become God' as individuals, and the originality of his twelve volume De trinitate in expressing it. Janet Sidaway argues that Hilary's ideas had their origin in his baptismal confession of faith and Biblical exegesis, but were then shaped by his response to the 'Arians' and to Marcellus of Ancyra. She illustrates Hilary's emphasis on the soteriological importance of the human nature of the incarnate Christ, and on his brotherhood with us. He interpreted the Transfiguration to reveal Christ's glory as a perfect human being, and suggested that Christ remains in some sense corporeally human after the Ascension. Because we share Christ's human body, we too may share this glory. Dr. Sidaway proposes that, although Hilary's ideas were ignored by his immediate successors, they are similar to the theology of the body formulated by Dante in the Divine Comedy, and resonate with the current concepts of Transformation Theology.
£65.00
Peeters Publishers Aristides' Apology and the Novel Barlaam and
Book SynopsisThis study explores the so-called Apology of Aristides as it can be found within Barlaam and Ioasaph (B&I). Scholars have started from the hypothesis (when comparing the Greek B&I version to the Syriac version) that the redactor of B&I has removed details from within the Apology. Although this has a prima facie probability, no scholar has addressed whether this one hundred year old hypothesis holds any truth. In order to understand a text within a framing text, one needs to get a clear idea of the latter, especially its textual form and its core ideas. This allows an insight into the relationship between the two entities. I ask which elements of the Apology entered B&I and have been seen as fitting this framework, which of the linguistic entities and theological ideas are consistent with both the time and content of B&I, and how the Apology reads as part of the overall narrative of the B&I. I explore the role played by this 'added' text in B&I, and why the author or redactor may have chosen to use it. Furthermore, is this text the only fragment that was added to B&I? Once the 'text' of the Apology is understood in its frame, I argue, can we examine how that frame may have impacted on the interpretation of the Apology, and whether and to what extent it may have impacted on the text itself. This answer to the latter question may already have been suggested when looking at how the linguistic entities fit the B&I frame. Finally, I compare the Apology of the B&I with the older Greek papyri of the Apology. A study such as this has never been accomplished, and yet such a study proves essential in understanding the Greek version of the Apology, as it appears in B&I, and how this new information relates to the other versions of the Apology. What we discover is that the redactor has not changed much of the B&I version of the Apology contrary to what previous scholarship suggets.This study explores the so-called Apology of Aristides as it can be found within Barlaam and Ioasaph (B&I). Scholars have started from the hypothesis (when comparing the Greek B&I version to the Syriac version) that the redactor of B&I has removed details from within the Apology. Although this has a prima facie probability, no scholar has addressed whether this one hundred year old hypothesis holds any truth. In order to understand a text within a framing text, one needs to get a clear idea of the latter, especially its textual form and its core ideas. This allows an insight into the relationship between the two entities. I ask which elements of the Apology entered B&I and have been seen as fitting this framework, which of the linguistic entities and theological ideas are consistent with both the time and content of B&I, and how the Apology reads as part of the overall narrative of the B&I. I explore the role played by this 'added' text in B&I, and why the author or redactor may have chosen to use it. Furthermore, is this text the only fragment that was added to B&I? Once the 'text' of the Apology is understood in its frame, I argue, can we examine how that frame may have impacted on the interpretation of the Apology, and whether and to what extent it may have impacted on the text itself. This answer to the latter question may already have been suggested when looking at how the linguistic entities fit the B&I frame. Finally, I compare the Apology of the B&I with the older Greek papyri of the Apology. A study such as this has never been accomplished, and yet such a study proves essential in understanding the Greek version of the Apology, as it appears in B&I, and how this new information relates to the other versions of the Apology. What we discover is that the redactor has not changed much of the B&I version of the Apology contrary to what previous scholarship suggets. This study explores the so-called Apology of Aristides as it can be found within Barlaam and Ioasaph (B&I). Scholars have started from the hypothesis (when comparing the Greek B&I version to the Syriac version) that the redactor of B&I has removed details from within the Apology. Although this has a prima facie probability, no scholar has addressed whether this one hundred year old hypothesis holds any truth. In order to understand a text within a framing text, one needs to get a clear idea of the latter, especially its textual form and its core ideas. This allows an insight into the relationship between the two entities. I ask which elements of the Apology entered B&I and have been seen as fitting this framework, which of the linguistic entities and theological ideas are consistent with both the time and content of B&I, and how the Apology reads as part of the overall narrative of the B&I. I explore the role played by this 'added' text in B&I, and why the author or redactor may have chosen to use it. Furthermore, is this text the only fragment that was added to B&I? Once the 'text' of the Apology is understood in its frame, I argue, can we examine how that frame may have impacted on the interpretation of the Apology, and whether and to what extent it may have impacted on the text itself. This answer to the latter question may already have been suggested when looking at how the linguistic entities fit the B&I frame. Finally, I compare the Apology of the B&I with the older Greek papyri of the Apology. A study such as this has never been accomplished, and yet such a study proves essential in understanding the Greek version of the Apology, as it appears in B&I, and how this new information relates to the other versions of the Apology. What we discover is that the redactor has not changed much of the B&I version of the Apology contrary to what previous scholarship suggets.
£78.00
Peeters Publishers Augustinus van Hippo. Briefwisseling met de
Book SynopsisDeze correspondentie is een pittig steekspel tussen de kerkvader Augustinus en een zekere Secundinus, een manicheeër. Augustinus analyseert en beredeneert de verschilpunten tussen het manicheïsme en het christendom. Tegelijkertijd rekent hij met zijn verleden af. Het antwoord aan Secundinus is naar zijn mening het beste dat hij ooit tegen deze ketterij geschreven heeft.
£28.50
Peeters Publishers L'union à l'épreuve du formulaire: Professions de
Book SynopsisLes conciles oecuméniques de Nicée, de Contantinople et de Chalcédoine ont fixé et promulgué des professions de foi chrétiennes valables universellement. Pourtant, l'évolution de l'Église latine a conduit à modifier, avec le Filioque, un Symbole qui était tenu pour sacré et invariable par les Églises orientales. Dès lors, l'instrument même de la communion devient objet de discorde et de polémique, surtout quand il s'agit de formaliser l'Union des Églises. De la fin de la période byzantine jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle, les controverses qui en découlent donnent lieu à diverses professions de foi qui sont ici analysées. Certains chapitres proposent une approche collective des implications de l'Union sur l'expression du Credo, tant à Byzance, à Kiev, à Rome ou à Paris, que chez les chrétiens arabes. D'autre part, une attention particulière a été portée à des cas individuels, ceux d'empereurs ou d'impératrices comme Jean V Paléologue et Théodora Paléologina, ou de patriarches comme Jean Bekkos, Cyrille Loukaris et Dosithée de Jérusalem. De nouvelles éditions critiques de ces textes figurent en annexe de plusieurs chapitres.
£86.15
Peeters Publishers From Gnostics to Monastics: Studies in Coptic and
Book SynopsisThis collection of studies is offered in honor of Bentley Layton by twenty-three of his colleagues and former students. Prof. Layton taught the history of ancient Christianity and also the Coptic language at Yale University for forty years beginning in 1976. At that time he was already recognized internationally as a leading figure in the publication and study of the Coptic Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi Codices and in Coptic linguistic and manuscript studies, two areas of research that are represented in this volume by sections on Gnostic, Valentinian, and Manichaean literature, and on Coptic language and texts. A section on Egyptian monasticism pays tribute to Prof. Layton’s fundamental contributions to the study of the late antique monastic leader and Coptic author Shenoute. A final section looks north across the Mediterranean Sea to early Chistianity in the Wider Late Roman World.
£121.36
Peeters Publishers Was ist Kirche in der Spätantike?: Publikation
Book SynopsisDem Glaubensbekenntnis von Nizäa-Konstantinopel (381) zufolge gibt eine heilige, katholische und apostolische Kirche - und doch gibt es empirisch zahlreiche Kirchen, damals wie heute. Zumal in der Spätantike ist Kirche ein höchst vielgestaltiges Phänomen: Der geglaubten Einheit des Leibes Christi steht die faktische Pluralität von Kirchen gegenüber, zwischen denen nicht nur in theologischen und kirchnpolitischen Fragen, sondern auch im Blick auf Sozialgestalt und religiöse Praxis Konkurrenz herrscht. Diese Pluralität von Kirche in der Spätantike fokussiert der vorliegende Band. Dabei werden im interdisziplinären Gespräch zwischen Kirchengeschichte, Christlicher Archäologie und Alter Geschichte methodische Ansätze erprobt und darüber hinaus thematische Studien vorgelegt: So widmen sich einzelne Beiträge der monastischen Kritik an der Institution Kirche, der Funktionsweise der kirchlichen Bürokratie und der ekklesiologischen Reflexion in unterschiedlichen Zeiträumen, Kontexten und Regionen. Auf diese Weise entsteht ein facettenreiches Bild der einen, allgemeinen ("katholischen") und zugleich pluralen christlichen Kirche in patristischer Zeit.
£57.00
Peeters Publishers Figures of Ezra
Book SynopsisThis book is one of the first modern collections of studies on important aspects of the Ezra figure that combines both Jewish and Christian traditions. The volume opens with a study of Ezra in rabbinic literature and continues with four chapters on 4 Ezra, discussing its dimensions of time, future agents and visionary practices as well as reminiscences of 4 Ezra in the Armenian Script of the Lord's Infancy. The following chapters study the relationship of 4, 5 and 6 Ezra, the nature of 5 Ezra and dissimulation strategies in 6 Ezra. The last chapters concentrate on the important discovery in 1984 of a longer version of the Vision of Ezra. Studies of its place, date, tour of hell as well as its scheme of atonements make a start with integrating this text in the study of early Christianity. Analyses of the Apocalypse of Sedrach and of anxieties of discontinuity in the Testament of Abraham and in Ezra traditions further contribute to a better understanding of this text. The final chapter offers the first German translation of this exciting discovery. As has become customary, the volume concludes with an extensive bibliography and detailed index.
£72.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXV - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£90.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXVI - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£76.76
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXVII - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£65.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXVIII - Papers
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£65.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXIX - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£75.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXX - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£75.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXXI - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£75.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXXII - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£75.25
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXXIII - Papers
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£90.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXXIV - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£75.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXXV - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£75.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXXVI - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£75.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXXVII - Papers
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£75.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXXVIII - Papers
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£75.80
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXXIX - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£75.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. XC - Papers presented at
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£65.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. XCI - Papers presented at
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£115.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. XCII - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£115.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. XCIII - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£115.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. XCIV - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£90.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. XCV - Papers presented at
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£115.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. XCVI - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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 Studia Patristica. Vol. XCVII - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£115.00
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. XCVIII - Papers presented
Book SynopsisThe 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. These papers 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 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.
£130.00
Peeters Publishers Ringen um Israel: Intertextuelle Perspektiven auf
Book SynopsisDas 5. Buch Esra gehört wohl zu den am wenigsten bearbeiteten 'jüdisch/christlichen' Apokryphen des (wahrscheinlich) 2. Jahrhunderts unserer Zeitrechnung. Dabei wird der Text gemeinsam mit 4 Esra im Anhang der Vulgata überliefert und zeigt vielfältige Beziehungen zu kanonisch gewordenen Texten auf. Auf eben solche Bezugnahmen blickt diese Arbeit und untersucht intertextuelle Bezüge zwischen 5 Esra und dem Buch Baruch, Jeremia 7, dem Matthäus-Evangelium, der Offenbarung des Johannes und 4 Esra. Dabei stehen größere und grundsätzliche Fragen im Hintergrund: Wie lässt sich die 'Kommunikation' verschiedener Texte miteinander erfassen? In welchem Verhältnis stehen 'prophetische' und 'apokalyptische' Texte zueinander? Wie ist das Verhältnis von 'Christentum' und 'Judentum' im zweiten Jahrhundert zu denken? Und wie spiegelt sich die Beziehung und vielleicht auch die Spannung zwischen Israel und der 'Kirche' in den Texten dieser Zeit wider? Spuren für mögliche Antworten sind in 5 Esra, dieser spannenden, kurzen und oft unterschätzten Schrift erkennbar.
£74.00
Peeters Publishers Matière et médiations métaphysiques: Étude des
Book SynopsisIl est indéniable que Thomas d’Aquin fit preuve d’une grande originalité métaphysique parmi ses contemporains. Or, ses avancées concernant la signification de l’esse ou l’unicité de la forme substantielle ne peuvent être adéquatement saisies indépendamment d’une compréhension tout aussi originale de la matière, conçue notamment comme pure puissance. Cette étude tâche de saisir les implications de la conception thomasienne de la matière dans les différents domaines de sa pensée, de la physique à la métaphysique, en passant par les fondations, dans la constitution même de la substance, des théories de la connaissance, de l’agir moral et de l’appréhension du beau. On y découvre une conception de la substance-sujet au sens fort qui se montre pourtant, au cœur même de ses principes constitutifs, radicalement ouverte à l’originalité de l’Altérité sous ses diverses formes.
£155.00
Peeters Publishers Louvain, Belgium, and Beyond: Studies in
Book SynopsisThe scholarship of Leo Kenis has been characterised by methodological rigour and a broad-ranging interest in the history of church, theology and religion in the 19th and the 20th centuries. His most valued contributions concern the history of the Louvain Faculty of Theology, the crises of Modernism and Nouvelle théologie, the Second Vatican Council and the post-conciliar transformations of the Catholic Church in Belgium and Western Europe. This volume collects twenty-five contributions from Louvain and international colleagues working in the same field of expertise, who are all familiar with the research of Leo Kenis. Four domains of his expertise are addressed in this volume: the history of the (Ancient) Louvain Faculty of Theology, the Modernist Crisis, the history of religious orders abroad and at home, and the preparation and implementation of the Second Vatican Council. These contributions honour and extend the research of Leo Kenis as a Louvain scholar in religious history.
£95.00
Peeters Publishers The Description of the Times by Mor Michael the
Book SynopsisThis is the first in-depth study of the largest medieval Christian chronicle, written by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Michael (1126-1199). The codex unicus from 1598, along with remarks made by scribes and by the author himself, is used to reconstruct the original layout of the chronicle. The study compares the chronicle with works that share its form and sources to reveal Michael’s intentions, particularly the (lost) chronicles by Jacob of Edessa (633-708), Patriarch Dionysius of Tel-Mahre (772-834) and the chronicle by Maphrian Bar 'Ebroyo (1226-1286). Michael studied the history of the world throughout his entire adult life. There is hardly any other medieval Christian chronicler in the West or East who reflected on his method to such an extent. The result was an intricate historical argument as part of the historico-theological disputes of his time. Michael documented a history in which the Suryoye had a place rooted in the secular empires of the Ancient Near East, in their Patriarchal succession and in the heavenly kingdom of the Anointed One.
£95.00
Peeters Publishers Marginality, Media, and Mutations of Religious
Book SynopsisMarginal figures, from heretics, ascetics and mystics to saints, visionaries and witches have played key roles in decisive mutations of religious authority in the history of different forms of Christianity. This book offers new theoretical perspectives on the theme of marginality in a series of in-depth case studies of marginal figures and forms of marginality. It presents a distinction between social marginality, often resulting from social exclusion and demonization as well as involving discomfort and distress, and religious marginality, which can be voluntary, actively sought out, and performed. The contributions analyse both social and religious forms of marginality and demonstrate how a focus on media is crucial for understanding the role of marginality in authority mutations in the long history of Christianity. The articles discuss a wide range of media, from amulets, space, technologies of the self, literary forms, to visual culture and mass and social media. The book thus offers media-based pointers for comparative, historical studies more broadly in the study of religions.
£64.00
Peeters Publishers A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of
Book SynopsisA Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of Job 22-42 contains the established text of all the preserved readings of Origen’s Hexapla in Greek, Syriac, Latin, and Armenian for Job 22-42 with variant author attributions and variant readings presented in a series of apparatuses. In most entries, the editor has supplied Notes in the form of brief commentary on the readings. This edition of hexaplaric fragments surpasses previous editions (e.g. Frederick Field’s work) in two ways: (1) the edition contains more readings of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion and (2) the critical text of each reading is based on the most up-to-date manuscript evidence for the hexaplaric readings of Job. The new edition will have immediate relevance for textual criticism of the TaNaK/Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the Greek lexicon of the late second temple period, and early Jewish and Christian interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures in Greek.
£110.00
Peeters Publishers Isho'dad of Merw. Commentary on the Gospel of
Book SynopsisIsho‘dad of Merw, Bishop of the East Syrian Church in Hedatta, wrote his commentaries on the books of the Old and New Testament around 850 A.D. His work constitutes one of the most important and extensive exegetical collections within the East Syrian Church. From 1911 to 1916 Margaret D. Gibson published a text edition and an English translation of the New Testament Part. Developments in the area of manuscript tradition, the discovery of new sources and the many deficiencies in Gibson’s work, made a new text edition and translation necessary. The starting point has been taken in Isho‘dad’s commentary on the Gospel of St. John. This gave the opportunity to trace in Isho‘dad’s commentary the influences of the work of Theodore of Mopsuestia, whose commentary on the Gospel of St. John has survived in the Syriac language. Volume 671 (Textus) offers a Syriac text edition based on 15 manuscripts. In the Introduction these manuscripts and their mutual relationship are described. Volume 672 (Versio) contains a description of Isho’dad’s life, a study of the sources used by him, and a translation. The volumes include a survey of Gibson’s errata, an orthographical index and an index of biblical citations and Greek terms quoted.
£115.00
Peeters Publishers Isho'dad of Merw. Commentary on the Gospel of
Book SynopsisIsho`dad of Merw, Bishop of the East Syrian Church in Hedatta, wrote his commentaries on the books of the Old and New Testament around 850 A.D. His work constitutes one of the most important and extensive exegetical collections within the East Syrian Church. From 1911 to 1916 Margaret D. Gibson published a text edition and an English translation of the New Testament Part. Developments in the area of manuscript tradition, the discovery of new sources and the many deficiencies in Gibson’s work, made a new text edition and translation necessary. The starting point has been taken in Isho`dad’s commentary on the Gospel of St. John. This gave the opportunity to trace in Isho`dad’s commentary the influences of the work of Theodore of Mopsuestia, whose commentary on the Gospel of St. John has survived in the Syriac language. Volume 671 (Textus) offers a Syriac text edition based on 15 manuscripts. In the Introduction these manuscripts and their mutual relationship are described. Volume 672 (Versio) contains a description of Isho’dad’s life, a study of the sources used by him, and a translation. The volumes include a survey of Gibson’s errata, an orthographical index and an index of biblical citations and Greek terms quoted.
£110.00
Peeters Publishers Defining Christ: The Church of the East and
Book SynopsisDefining Christ describes the theological developments of the Church of the East in the Persian Empire in the seventh century, when Arab groupings were seizing power. This Church defined and emphasized the difference between the divine and human nature of Christ in such a way that it had already come in strong conflict with other Christian denominations. Now, it also had to deal with new rulers who recognized Christ as a unique human being, but rejected the belief in his divinity. The book investigates to what extent the leaders of this Church adapted their statements concerning Christ to the rapidly changing circumstances and views. Most attention is thereby given to the 106 letters of Isho’yahb III, written between about 625 and 659. These letters shed an interesting light on this period and for a better understanding they are set in the context of wider theological and political developments.
£105.00