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Book SynopsisThe essays collected in Christians Shaping Identity celebrate Pauline Allen’s significant contribution to early Christian, late antique, and Byzantine studies, especially concerning bishops, heresy/orthodoxy and christology. Covering the period from earliest Christianity to middle Byzantium, the first eighteen essays explore the varied ways in which Christians constructed their own identity and that of the society around them. A final four essays explore the same theme within Roman Catholicism and oriental Christianity in the late 19th to 21st centuries, with particular attention to the subtle relationships between the shaping of the early Christian past and the moulding of Christian identity today. Among the many leading scholars represented are Averil Cameron and Elizabeth A. Clark.
Trade Review'Die große und illustre Kreis der Beitragenden spiegelt die hohe Wertschätzung wider, die Allen in der patristischen scientific community genießt und dokumentiert zugleich den Dialog der australischen Forscherin mit der Patristik Nordamerikas, Europas, Südafrikas und Japans. [...] Mit dem Band [liegt] eine für Kirchen- und Kulturhistoriker, Patristiker, Byzantinisten und Ökumeniker gleichermaßen relevante Sammlung zur Herausbildung und Transformation christlicher Identitäten von der neutestamentlichen Zeit bis in die Gegenwart vor.' - Martin Illert, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 141 (2016) 12
Table of Contents1. Introduction, Wendy Mayer and Geoffrey D. Dunn The Roman Empire before Constantine 2. Jews, Gentiles, and Ethnic Identity in the Gospel of Matthew, David C. Sim 3. Die Herkunft der Christen in der Apologie des Aristides: Baustein zu einem Kommentar, Michael Lattke 4. What did Ancient Christians Say when they Cast out Demons? Inferences from Spells and Amulets, Theodore de Bruyn The Late Antique East 5. On Being a Christian in Late Antiquity: St Basil the Great between the Desert and the City, Andrew Louth 6. The Likeness to God and the Imitation of Christ: The Transformation of the Platonic Tradition in Gregory of Nyssa, Shigeki Tsuchihashi 7. Origen after the Origenist Controversy, Miyako Demura 8. Shaping the Sick Soul: Reshaping the Identity of John Chrysostom, Wendy Mayer The Late Antique West 9. Theory and Practice in Ambrose: De officiis and the Political Interventions of the Bishop of Milan, Mary Sheather 10. Jerome as Priest, Exegete and 'Man of the Church', Philip Rousseau 11. The Use of Comparison and Contrast in Shaping the Identity of a Desert Monk, Koos Kritzinger 12. Augustine's Scriptural Exegesis in De sermone Domini in monte and the Shaping of Christian Perfection, Naoki Kamimura 13. Shaping the Poor: The Philosophical Anthropology of Augustine in the Context of the Era of Crisis, Kazuhiko Demura 14. Innocent I on Heretics and Schismatics as Shaping Christian Identity, Geoffrey D. Dunn Byzantium 15. Ariadne Augusta: Shaping the Identity of the Early Byzantine Empress, Brian Croke 16. Dream Interpretation and Christian identity in Late Antique Rome and Byzantium, Bronwen Neil 17. Shaping Coptic Christian Identity: Severus and the Adoption in Egypt of the Cult of the Forty Martyrs, Youhanna Nessim Youssef 18. The Treatment of Ecumenical Councils in Byzantine Chronicles, Roger Scott 19 Flights of Fancy: Some Imaginary Debates in Late Antiquity, Averil Cameron Reading the Past, Shaping the Present 20. The Personal Identity of Jesus Christ: Alois Grillmeier's Contribution to its Conceptualisation, Michael Slusser 21. Christological Declarations with Oriental Churches, Theresia Hainthaler 22. 'Historical Development' and Early Christianity: George Tyrrell's Modernist Adaptation and Critique, Elizabeth A. Clark 23. Male-Centred Christology and Female Cultic Incapability: Women's impedimentum sexus, Kari Elisabeth Borresen
