Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches Books
Dr Ludwig Reichert Themelia: Spatantike Und Koptologische Studien.
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£96.90
Ergon Verlag The Greek Orthodox Waqf in Lebanon During the
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£31.50
Verlag Hans-Jrgen Maurer Neue Weg-Die Ersten Christen: Apostelgeschichte,
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£25.00
Kapon Editions Greek-Orthodox People of Constantinople,
Book SynopsisWhat follows the Fall of Constantinople? How does the Ottoman capital develop? How do its residents survive and how do the Greek-Orthodox people organize their life? How deep is the effect of the Fall? Is there continuity from the pre-fall period? The book draws information from Constantinople chronicles, travellers’ narratives, diaries of Westerners who lived among the Greek-Orthodox people, preacher sermons revealing the existing social problems, from the heroic new martyrs commemorated in the Synaxaria, as well as from older texts of Greek historians and articles of contemporary Ottomanists. The reader follows the travellers in their exploration of Constantinople at the time –in its historic centre and its outskirts. Eventually, the city’s ancient and byzantine monuments cease to exist; the Byzantine Poli (City) becomes “blurry.” A new, Ottoman capital arises and begins to flourish, though its heyday is besmirched by chronic scourges: fires, earthquakes, epidemics, famine, and sufferings, against which everyone is powerless. The life of the Greek-Orthodox people, and others, develops around their “mahallah” (neighbourhood), their parish, their guilds, the market. This is also the period when Greek Orthodox begin their first contacts with both the West, mostly with Protestants, and the orthodox Russia.
£25.17
Archeobooks Coptic Studies, Acts of the Third International
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£57.00
Archeobooks Faras Gallery: Early Christian Treasures of the
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£33.25
Archeobooks Nubia Christiana II
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£42.75
Archeobooks Ethiopia and Alexandria: The Metropolitan
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£36.10
Rialp Zeus vs Deus la resistencia de la cultura pagana
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£16.61
Pontifical Oriental Institute Women's Monasteries in Ukraine and Belorussia to
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£24.20
Brill The Doctrine of God in Reformed Orthodoxy, Karl
Book SynopsisIn The Doctrine of God Dolf te Velde examines the interaction of method and content in three historically important accounts of the doctrine of God. Does the method of a systematic theology affect the belief content expressed by it? Can substantial insights be detected that have a regulative function for the method of a doctrine of God? This two-way connection of method and content is investigated in three phases of Reformed theology. The first seeks to discover inner dynamics of Reformed scholastic theology. The second part treats Karl Barth’s doctrine of God as a contrast model for scholasticism, understood in the framework of Barth’s theological method. The third part offers a first published comprehensive description and analysis of the so-called Utrecht School. The closing chapter draws some lines for developing a Reformed doctrine of God in the 21st century.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ... xi Preface ... xiii 1. I ntroduction ... 1 PART 1 THE DOCTRINE OF GOD IN REFORMED ORTHODOXY 2. Approaching Reformed Orthodoxy ... 19 3. Reformed Orthodoxy in Its Historical Context ... 44 4. Reformed Orthodox Methodology ... 77 5. Doctrine of God: Names, Being, Attributes ... 110 6. Doctrine of God: Attributes of the First Order ... 139 7. Doctrine of God: Attributes of the Second Order ... 175 8. Conclusions ... 243 PART 2 THE DOCTRINE OF GOD IN THE THEOLOGY OF KARL BARTH 9. I ntroduction ... 259 10. The Development of Barth’s Theological Method ... 268 11. Doctrine of God: Entrance ... 337 12. Doctrine of God: Perfections ... 364 13. Doctrine of God: Election and Command ... 404 14. Analysis and Discussion ... 423 15. Conclusions ... 454 PART 3 THE DOCTRINE OF GOD IN THE UTRECHT SCHOOL 16. I ntroduction ... 481 17. Approaches of the Utrecht School ... 485 18. The Doctrine of God: Foundations ... 546 19. The Doctrine of God: Elaboration ... 571 20. Putting Together the Utrecht Doctrine of God ... 645 21. Conclusions and Discussions ... 655 22. Conclusions ... 693 Bibliography ... 793 Index ... 809
£258.82
Brill The Book of Union of Babai the Great: English
Book SynopsisThe Book of Union by Mar Babai the Great (d. 628) is a compendium of christological texts by the famed author at a time when the christological position of the Assyrian Church of the East (also known as the ‘Church of the East’ or the ‘Church of Persia’) became crystalized. It is the finest representation of the Christology of the Church in Persia, in contrast to diaphysite expression of Byzantium in the Roman East, and the miaphysite expression of the Church in Alexandria and its dependencies. The christological expression of the Church of the East was standardized and canonized by Babai in his christological magnum opus. Accompanied by an introduction and English translation, this volume presents an indispensable text for the study of Christology and its development.
£167.96
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.
£120.00
Peeters Publishers Livre Des Canons Armeniens (Kanonagirk Hayoc) De
Book SynopsisApparu en Armenie des le debut du IVe siecle apres la conversion officielle du royaume au christianisme, le droit canonique connait un developpement majeur avec le synode de Sahapivan de 444 qui suit de peu l'invention de l'alphabet national vers 400. Le corpus canonique etabli par cette assemblee est interpole et augmente au debut du VIIe siecle par le docteur julianiste Yovhannes Mayragomec'i qui est radicalement oppose au concile de Chalcedoine. Ce nouveau receuil qui n'est pas officiel trahit sur le fond la doctrine extremiste de son auteur. Au debut du VIIIe siecle, le catholicos Yovhannes Awjnec'i impose a l'ensemble du pays une doctrine antichalcedonienne moderee avec l'appui des Arabes destine a prevenir toute intrusion byzantine. Dans le cadre de cette politique, il promulgue le "Livre des canons" qui reprend le "Corpus de Sahapivan" et les canons du VIIe siecle qui ne refletent pas une coloration trop nettement julianiste.
£145.00
Peeters Publishers Armeniens et Byzantins a L'epoque de Photius:
Book SynopsisFace au conflit qui allait en s'aggravant entre les sieges de Constantinople et de Rome en 862, le patriarche Photius se tourna vers l'Armenie pour y chercher un soutien. Il esperait devenir lui-meme facteur d'unite chretienne au moment oA' la reconquete byzantine de l'Est anatolien paraissait imminente. L'auteur demontre que Photius a influence non seulement les relations de Byzance avec l'Occident, mais aussi les debats doctrinaux avec l'Orient. Il explore les sources patristiques de la politique ecclesiastique de Photius afin d'expliquer comment l'attitude de ce patriarche a l'egard des heterodoxes a permis la formulation d'un accord aussi singulier que celui de Sirakawan. La traduction commentee des documents armeniens concernant ce concile et la controverse qui le suivit est basee sur une nouvelle collation de manuscrits et accompagnee d'un lexique extensif. L'analyse du langage technique developpe par les auteurs armeniens lors de la domination arabe permet d'exposer comment evoluait l'articulation de la doctrine de l'Incarnation depuis les grandes controverses de l'epoque de Justinien. L'interpretation de ces textes et de leurs sources represente la premiere etude systematique de la christologie armenienne. Les divergences dogmatiques entre les Armeniens et les Byzantins sont mises en relation avec les differents criteres de l'orthodoxie soutenus par les deux Eglises.
£75.00
Peeters Publishers Eugnoste. Lettre Sur Le Dieu Transcendant (NH
Book SynopsisDecouvert dans un manuscrit copte du IVe siecle de notre ere, le texte intitule Eugnoste est sans doute plus ancien. Il se caracterise par l'importance accordee au mythe de l'Homme primordial qui est la forme manifestee du Dieu supreme. Il touche la question, chaudement debattue depuis l'Ecole d'Histoire des Religions en Allemagne, des liens entre christianisme et gnosticisme, a propos du mythe de l'Homme celeste ou du Redempteur-rachete. Le milieu de production pourrait etre Alexandrie. Proche d'un judaisme platonisant, tel qu'on le trouve chez Philon d'Alexandrie, il enseigne un christianisme susceptible de plaire et d'attirer ce genre de milieu. Les doctrines philosophiques, issues du Moyen Platonisme, de meme que les paralleles dans la litterature patristique nous incitent a le dater de la premiere moitie du second siecle de notre ere. Comme Eugnoste a fait l'objet de plusieurs reecritures, sont analysees dans ce volume la version du codex III de Nag Hammadi (NH III, 3) ainsi que celle du codex V (NH V, 1). Un chapitre est egalement consacre a la doctrine baptismale qui se trouve dans une autre reecriture, celle de la Sagesse de Jesus-Christ (BG, 3; NH III, 4).
£70.00
Peeters Publishers Orthodox Christianity and Human Rights
Book SynopsisOrthodox theology and the Orthodox Churches had, and continue to have an ambiguous relationship towards the concept of Human Rights: principal approval often stands alongside serious criticism. This is especially true for those Orthodox Churches which have their centre in a country of the former Soviet sphere. On the one hand, especially since the fall of Communism they enjoy religious freedom that forms a central element within the framework of Human Rights. On the other hand, the transformation process of the 1990s and the challenge of pluralism and globalization have all confronted them with aspects of freedom that could not but affect their stance towards the Human Rights concept in general. This also means, that doubts and reservations related to this concept came to the fore again, which had yet existed already decades before. These reservations focused on such issues as Church and secular society, Church and state, furthermore on the understanding of central terms such as "freedom", "dignity", "rights" - central also for an Orthodox anthropology, that needs to be reconciled with the partly differing approaches behind the Human Rights concept.The chapters of this volume try and explore as much the philosophical and theological as the social, historical and practical aspects of this complex relationship. Based either on the discussion of differing theological concepts, or on empirical and concrete case studies respectively, they clearly show the tensions and fractures that do exist. On the other hand, in this way they also hint at possibilities to overcome these tensions, to continue a dialogue that already has begun, and to avoid the numerous misunderstandings between East and West which currently tend to form a hindrance to this dialogue at various points.
£65.24
Peeters Publishers Catalogue of Syriac and Garshuni Manuscripts:
Book SynopsisForty-three Syriac and Garshuni manuscripts owned by the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage are here catalogued and described in great detail. The manuscripts cover major literary genres known to Syriac literature, each of which is discussed in a lengthy introduction with an up-to-date bibliography. To illustrate the contents and styles of the manuscripts, short texts extracted from most of them are given in Syriac and Garshuni with translations in English. Some manuscripts are liturgical and were once the property of Melkite, Syriac Orthodox, Syriac Catholic, and Assyrian churches. Other manuscripts are spiritual and theological compendiums, biblical lectionaries and psalms, Melkite pastoral letters dealing with Roman Catholic devotional practices, charms and popular medicine, and sogyata and durikyata poems. A unique manuscript consists of a Kurdish (Kurmanji) grammar in Syriac authored by a 19th century Chaldean monk living in the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd in northern Iraq. The codices are dated between the 16th and the 19th centuries, though there is one dated to the 14th century, and they were produced in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and central and eastern Anatolia.
£75.00
Peeters Publishers From Old Cairo to the New World: Coptic Studies
Book SynopsisThis present volume is dedicated to Gawdat Gabra, the former director of the Coptic Museum in Cairo and now Professor of Coptology at the University of Claremont in the USA. Dr Gabra is one of the pioneers of Coptic studies in modern times and the author and editor of many valuable and highly regarded monographs, series and articles. Although the papers in this volume do not have a single theme, all of them share an interest and focus on one topic: Egypt. They cover many fields in Coptology and Egyptology, such as art, Biblical studies, liturgy, Copto-Arabic studies and archaeology. They present the results of recent academic research and archaeological excavations. The seventeen contributors to this volume belong to three continents and work in seven countries all over the world, but all of them appreciate the long-time efforts of Gawdat Gabra for Coptic studies on an academic level as well as his indefatigable labour to make laymen aware of Coptic Egypt.
£75.00
Peeters Publishers Studies on the Liturgies of the Christian East:
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of seventeen selected papers from the Third International Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, held in Volos, Greece, in 2010. The Society is a non-confessional association of scholars dealing with the liturgical traditions (and related disciplines) of the Eastern Christian Churches. These papers reflect studies on the Ethiopian, Georgian, Hagiopolite, Greek, Bulgarian, Slavonic, early Patristic, East Syriac, and West Syriac liturgies across a wide range of countries and cultures. Among other topics, the authors study the texts of liturgical services (including the critical question of translations), archaeology, liturgical music, iconography, mystagogical commentary, and liturgical theology. The papers deal with both the historical practice of the Churches and their present-day usages. The authors examine not only what has been the liturgical usage of the Eastern Churches in their countries of origin, but also how these liturgies are adapted and celebrated in the diaspora.
£83.60
Peeters Publishers Monastic Tradition in Eastern Christianity and
Book SynopsisThis volume's focus is threefold, thus corresponding to its tri-partite topical division: to analyze Eastern monasticism's unique place in the life transforming journey to theosis; Eastern monasticism's hospitality and mutual encounters with culture; and Eastern and Western monasticism's hospitality to Christian and non-Christian religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam (even though Islam does not have any monastic institution, its adherents have been historically in dialogue with Christian monastics and have the potential to achieve a spiritual affinity with monks of other religious traditions). The three parts of the volume share one unifying argument: monasticism's special call to spiritually symbiotic relationship or impact on the very socio-politic-historic structures of reality. The topics are explored from historical, theological, and literary standpoints. The volume's overall intention is to help make monastic ecumenical engagement or its potential for inter-faith dialogue better known, appreciated, and relevant within inter-religious dialogue.
£77.90
Peeters Publishers Syriac Encounters: Papers from the Sixth North
Book SynopsisThe Sixth North American Syriac Symposium brought together scholars from across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and India. Syriac Encounters offers twenty-four papers that were originally delivered at the Symposium, and represents a cross-section of both the Symposium and the current state of Syriac studies more broadly. Although most of the papers in the volume focus on the late antique heyday of Syriac Christianity, several papers contribute to the study of other, related fields, including Islamic studies and Middle Eastern anthropology. The blossoming of Syriac studies beyond church history and Semitic philology can be attributed to a wider recognition of the Syriac language and culture as a bridge linking (and fostering encounters between) Rome and Persia, Byzantium and Baghdad, and Christianity and Islam.
£85.00
Peeters Publishers Scribes and Scriptures: The Church of the East in
Book SynopsisLittle is left that testifies to the life of the Church of the East in the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. What we have, are manuscripts written by mostly clerical scribes for mostly clerical readers. There is much that suggests, however, that these texts functioned in a much wider circle than merely that of the learned. This study takes the scribal production of texts, from the Holy Scriptures to the first traces of popular writing, as its main source to analyze the major changes that took place in the Church of the East in the period. The most important of these was the introduction of Western Catholicism, which ultimately led to the creation of two separate hierarchies, today's Chaldean Church and the Assyrian Church of the East. How this community dealt with these monumental changes, how that affected everything from the production of texts to the fabric of society as a whole, and how that contributes to our understanding of this Church's modern day off-shoots, is the topic of this study.
£97.85
Peeters Publishers Rites and Rituals of the Christian East:
Book SynopsisThis book comprises twenty-one selected papers from the Fourth Congress of the international scholarly Society of Oriental Liturgy, held at the Universities of Notre Dame and Balamand in Lebanon, July 2012. These articles reflect studies on Coptic, Ethiopian and Eritrean, Syriac, Greek-Byzantine, Slavonic, and other liturgies. The authors examine, inter alia, the rites of matrimony, the blessing of the waters, and the Eucharistic Prothesis; developments in Christian iconography; early Christian worship and liturgical theology; new methodological approaches. The papers discuss both the historical practice of diverse Eastern Churches and the current situation. The present collection of articles shows clearly the progress made in a fascinating field of research.
£85.00
Peeters Publishers Le rôle du diacre dans la liturgie orientale:
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£36.69
Peeters Publishers L'Assomption de la T.S. Vierge dans la tradition
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£73.18
Peeters Publishers Les reliquaires de la Vraie Croix
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£63.65
Peeters Publishers Les Commentaires byzantins de la divine Liturgie
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£48.22
Peeters Publishers Documents inédits d'ecclésiologie byzantine:
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£73.15
Peeters Publishers Recherches sur les offikia de l'Église byzantine
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£83.60
Peeters Publishers Le registre synodal du patriarcat byzantin au
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£73.15
Peeters Publishers Les Actes des Patriarches II-III: Les Regestes de
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£128.25
Peeters Publishers Les Actes des Patriarches IV: Les Regestes de
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£64.66
Peeters Publishers Les Actes des Patriarches V: Les Regestes de 1310
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£73.15
Peeters Publishers Les Actes des Patriarches VI: Les Regestes de
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£73.15
Peeters Publishers Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae
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£114.00
Peeters Publishers Les Actes des Patriarches VII: Les Regestes de
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£73.15
Peeters Publishers Syriac in its Multi-cultural Context: First
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the contributions presented at the First International Syriac Symposium organised by the newly established Artuklu University in Mardin (April 2012). A substantial number of papers are devoted to the history of Syriac Christianity in Mardin itself, or more generally in Eastern Turkey, with contributions by both Turkish and international scholars. The importance of this Symposium should not be underestimated. Not so many years ago, Syriac and Turoyo were forbidden languages in Turkey and were only allowed in the private sphere, not in public. With this publication, the Artuklu University and the Turkish academic world acknowledge the importance of Syriac culture and Syriac language as elements for understanding the history and present-day situation of Eastern Anatolia.
£84.00
Peeters Publishers Histoire de Mar Abba, catholicos de l'Orient.
Book SynopsisLe règne du souverain Khusro Ier (531-579) fut une période-phare de l’histoire de la Perse sassanide, marquée aussi par des persécutions sporadiques à l’encontre des chrétiens d’origine zoroastrienne. Parmi ces martyrs figurent de grands personnages de la société civile tels Grigor Pirian-Gusnasp, général en chef des armées du roi, un haut-fonctionnaire et juge du nom de Yazd-panah ainsi qu’un notable de la cour, `Awira. Le plus illustre fut sans doute le catholicos Mar Abba (540-552), réunificateur de l’Église d’Orient après un schisme de près de vingt-cinq ans, canoniste, exégète, restaurateur de la discipline ecclésiastique qui avait été affaiblie depuis l’action entreprise par Barsauma en 484, controversiste réputé avec les zoroastriens et les chrétiens syro-orthodoxes, médiateur de paix pour les communautés chrétiennes. Ces textes, mis par écrit par des contemporains des événements, sont les seules hagiographies syro-orientales de cette époque à nous être parvenues en syriaque et présentent une remarquable qualité d’informations sur le paysage socio-religieux et politique de l’Orient au VIe siècle. Une édition critique commentée, accompagnée d’une traduction en français, est pour la première fois proposée à partir des uniques manuscrits existants de Londres, Berlin et du Vatican.
£76.00
Peeters Publishers Histoire de Mar Abba, catholicos de l'Orient.
Book SynopsisLe règne du souverain Khusro Ier (531-579) fut une période-phare de l’histoire de la Perse sassanide, marquée aussi par des persécutions sporadiques à l’encontre des chrétiens d’origine zoroastrienne. Parmi ces martyrs figurent de grands personnages de la société civile tels Grigor Pirian-Gusnasp, général en chef des armées du roi, un haut-fonctionnaire et juge du nom de Yazd-panah ainsi qu’un notable de la cour, `Awira. Le plus illustre fut sans doute le catholicos Mar Abba (540-552), réunificateur de l’Église d’Orient après un schisme de près de vingt-cinq ans, canoniste, exégète, restaurateur de la discipline ecclésiastique qui avait été affaiblie depuis l’action entreprise par Barsauma en 484, controversiste réputé avec les zoroastriens et les chrétiens syro-orthodoxes, médiateur de paix pour les communautés chrétiennes. Ces textes, mis par écrit par des contemporains des événements, sont les seules hagiographies syro-orientales de cette époque à nous être parvenues en syriaque et présentent une remarquable qualité d’informations sur le paysage socio-religieux et politique de l’Orient au VIe siècle. Une édition critique commentée, accompagnée d’une traduction en français, est pour la première fois proposée à partir des uniques manuscrits existants de Londres, Berlin et du Vatican.
£78.00
Peeters Publishers Die Mönchsregeln der Pachomianer
Book SynopsisDie Pachomianer-Regeln sind uns vollständig nur auf Latein in der Übersetzung des Hieronymus überliefert. Nachdem H. Bacht schon vor längerer Zeit den lateinischen Text in deutscher Übersetzung publiziert hatte, werden sie hier estmals auch unter Berücksichtigung der koptischen Regelteile auf Deutsch veröffentlicht und eingehend analysiert. Dabei werden auch die Forschungsgeschichte und die Wirkungsgeschichte ausführlich dargestellt. Das Regelganze ist zu Recht mit Pachoms Namen verbunden, es ist seine originale Schöpfung und inspiriert von seinem Geist. Aber es verdankt sich nicht einem bewussten literarisch-schriftstellerischen Prozess. Die Regeln sind aus dem praktischen täglichen Leben hervorgegangen, und sie sind auch nur in Rahmen einer lebendigen Autoritätsstruktur sinnvoll. Sie sind noch ganz in die Kultur der Mündlichkeit eingebettet, in der sie ihre Interpretation und ihre Anwendung fanden. Ob Pachom die Regeln persönlich geschrieben hat, ob er sie diktiert oder ob ein Bruder die mündlich erlassenen Regeln später aufgeschrieben hat, ist nicht mehr zu entscheiden. Deutlich ist aber, dass das Regelmaterial nach Stil und Inhalt auf die eine oder andere Weise auf ihn selbst zurückzuführen ist. Zur 'Gesetzgebung' wurden die Regeln erst durch den Rückgriff der Nachfolger Pachoms, die ihre Mitbrüder beständig auf die 'Anordnungen' und 'Gebote' des Ordensgründers verpflichteten. Diese Ordnungen lebten zwar immer noch von der Autorität des 'Vaters', der sie erlassen hatte, der aber nicht mehr als lebendes Beispiel unter ihnen war, sondern nur noch posthum beschworen werden konnte. Dadurch erst bekamen seine Regeln gewissermaßen einen kanonischen Rang.
£110.00
Peeters Publishers Philokappadox: In memoriam Justin Mossay
Book Synopsis«Philokappadox» rassemble dix-sept contributions en hommage posthume au Professeur Justin Mossay, helléniste émérite surtout connu pour ses travaux relatifs aux Discours de Grégoire de Nazianze. Les articles de ses élèves et amis sont répartis dans quatre parties, dont cet illustre Cappadocien constitue le thème central: la tradition grecque des Discours grégoriens, les versions orientales (essentiellement géorgiennes et syriaques), la postérité du Théologien sous des formes variées, et divers éléments en rapport avec la Cappadoce. Différentes disciplines sont mises à l'honneur: la philologie traditionnelle est illustrée par des éditions de textes et l'examen des traditions manuscrites, grecque et orientales; des points de contact sont établis avec le monde occidental; l'onomastique capadocienne antérieure au monde gréco-romain y trouve également place; enfin, les méthodes modernes d'analyse statistique et de lemmatisation complètent de façon originale cet éventail d'approches variées.
£125.40
Peeters Publishers Histoire de Zosime sur la vie des Bienheureux
Book SynopsisL'Histoire de Zosime sur la vie des Bienheureux Réchabites est le récit fait par le moine Zosime de son séjour au pays des Bienheureux. Ces Bienheureux sont en réalité les Réchabites (Jérémie 35) qui ont été miraculeusement transportés dans une île où ils vivent des productions merveilleuses de la nature. L'÷uvre nous a été transmise en grec, mais aussi par de nombreuses traditions orientales: syriaque, arabe, éthiopienne, arménienne, géorgienne et slave. Souvent elle est attestée sous plusieurs formes. Après une première partie introductive (J.-C. Haelewyck) qui traite longuement des questions habituelles (éditions, composition, objectif et date de l'ouvrage) et qui renouvelle la recherche sur plus d'un point, la seconde partie est toute entière consacrée à la présentation de la tradition manuscrite: les trois recensions syriaques (J.-C. Haelewyck), les trois recensions arabes (M. Makhoul), l'unique recension éthiopienne (J. Brankaer), les cinq recensions arméniennes (E. Van Elverdinghe et A. Ouzounian), les trois versions géorgiennes (T. Pataridzé) et l'unique recension slave (M. Pirard). En tout 129 manuscrits sont présentés, certains pour la première fois en langue occidentale.
£105.00
Peeters Publishers Handboek oosters christendom
Book SynopsisOosters christendom is steeds meer een zichtbare realiteit. Veel oosterse christenen hebben zich in het westen gevestigd, als politiek vluchteling of anderszins, en hier belangrijke structuren uitgebouwd. Orthodoxe landen maken deel uit van de Europese Unie. Conflicten in Oost-Europa, zoals tussen Rusland en Oekraïne, worden ook uitgevochten langs de lijnen van godsdienst. De politieke ontwikkelingen in het Midden-Oosten stellen de vraag naar het verdwijnen van het christendom in de regio waar het ontstaan is. Dit handboek geeft inzicht in de rijke diversiteit van de oosters-christelijke tradities. Naast historische inleidingen over de afzonderlijke oosterse Kerken zijn er ook thematische hoofdstukken. Hier komen de klassieke onderwerpen aan bod, zoals spiritualiteit, liturgie en iconen, maar evengoed zaken als orthodoxie en mensenrechten, de verwerking van het communistisch verleden, de verhouding met de islam, de kwestie van het nationalisme of de verhouding tussen kerk en staat en de uitdagingen van de moderniteit. Dit handboek is geschreven door een twintigtal specialisten onder redactie van Herman Teule en Alfons Brüning.
£102.77
Peeters Publishers The Legend of Saint Aur and the Monastery of
Book SynopsisThis book studies the literary heritage of the Coptic Orthodox monastery of the Archangel Gabriel at Naqlun in the Fayyum province in Egypt by focusing on the hagiographical cycle of Saint Aur, the presumed founder of its church. It presents the edition and translation, with extensive commentaries, of six previously unedited texts, all preserved in Middle Arabic. The author argues that the literary tradition around the monastery of Naqlun evolved in about the eleventh century, a period in which the monastery experienced a revival. The texts recall the memory of great saints from the past, among whom Saint Antony, and convey a new view of the Christian landscape of this region.
£89.00
Peeters Publishers Studies in Oriental Liturgy: Proceedings of the
Book SynopsisThis volume contains sixteen papers on Eastern Christian liturgies: on their origins, historical developments, current practices, and their theologies. The subjects range from initiation in Syriac Christianity to the origins of the feast of the Ark of the Covenant, and to the Book of Hours of Armenia and Jerusalem; from Coptic liturgy to an ancient Ethiopian catechesis with liturgical comments, and to the Palestinian Typicon; from Byzantine vesting rituals to the rite of marriage in the South-Slavic tradition, and to the fifteenth-century Archbishop Symeon of Thessalonica; from present-day Romanian liturgy `between Greeks and Slavs’ to Catholic veneration of Russian saints, and to the American Orthodox monastery of New Skete; and from the interactive web 2.0 to Robert Taft looking back on his impressive academic career. Thus the Society of Oriental Liturgy, dedicated to inquiries into the manifold worship traditions of the Eastern Churches, once more demonstrates that its research is an attractive cornucopia.
£84.00
Peeters Publishers Eastern and Oriental Christianity in the Diaspora
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of papers read at an international colloquium on the way Eastern and Oriental Christianity has accommodated itself to a Diaspora situation. The colloquium was held at the KU Leuven in December 2016. Contributors have focused on liturgical issues (B. Groen, D. Galadza), ecclesiological and juridical questions (A. Kaptijn, V. Pnevmatikakis), the way the Orthodox churches are trying to adapt to these and other challenges of modern West-European and North American society as this was addressed in the recent Council of Crete (P. Kalaitzidis, P. Vlaicu), and the attitude of Middle Eastern Diaspora Christians towards Islam (A. Schmoller). In an epilogue, one also gets an inside view on a recent initiative to establish a theological seminar for Syriac speaking Christians (A. Shemunkasho).
£78.00
Peeters Publishers Clavis to the Metrical Homilies of Narsai
Book SynopsisNarsai (d. ca. 500) is a foundational East Syriac theologian and exegete and among the most important and influential Syriac authors more broadly. The present volume serves as a clavis to the more than eighty metrical homilies (memre) attributed to him. The first part consists of the clavis itself: It is organized by homily providing for each a number, a short title, the incipit, the manuscript attestation, previous editions and translations, previous scholarship, and additional notes, when applicable. The second part is a study of manuscripts that contain collections of homilies attributed (primarily) to Narsai. For each manuscript, the following information is provided: date, catalogue-type description of contents, bibliography, and notes. The third part is a series of concordances that link the present work to previous publications as well as to the incipits. The volume also contains a curated bibliography on Narsai.
£96.00
