The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity

Reshaping Classical Traditions
Herausgeber: Ayres, Lewis; Crawford, Matthew R; Champion, Michael W

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book is for scholars and students of the ideas, literatures, and cultures of early Christianity and late antiquity, ancient philosophers, and historians of theology. It offers new perspectives on early Christian modes of knowing and ordering knowledge in relation to changing discourses, institutions, and material culture of late antiquity"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 734
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 52mm
• Gewicht: 1905g
• ISBN-13: 9781108835299
• ISBN-10: 1108835295
• Artikelnr.: 66877666

Inhaltsangabe

1. Modes of knowing and the ordering of knowledge in early Christianity
Lewis Ayres, Michael Champion, Matthew R. Crawford; 2. The beginnings of a
Christian doctrine of the spiritual senses before Origen Jane Heath; 3.
Health, medicine, and philosophy in the school of Justin Martyr Jared
Secord; 4. The structure of the ascetic self in Irenaeus of Lyons Paul
Saieg; 5. The order of education and knowledge in clement of Alexandria
Matyá Havrda; 6. Origen's institutions and the shape of biblical
scholarship Peter Martens; 7. Dialogue and catalogue: Fate, free-will, and
epistemology in the Book of the Laws of the Countries Scott Johnson; 8.
Iamblichus on divination and prophecy Peter Struck; 9. Cyprian, scripture
and socialisation: forming faith in the catechumenate and beyond Edwina
Murphy; 10. Sacrificial knowing: Cyprian and early Christian ritual
knowledge Andrew McGowan; 11. Learning the language of God: tables in early
Christian texts Andrew Riggsby; 12. The Aëtian Placita and the church
fathers: creative use of a distinctive mode of ordering knowledge David
Runia; 13. Nicaea's frame: the organisation of creedal knowledge in late
antiquity and modernity Andrew Radde-Gallwitz; 14. The Arian controversy
and the problem of image(s) Rebecca Lyman; 15. Imaging Ephrem the author
Jeffrey Wickes; 16. Homilies as 'Modes of Knowing': an exploration on the
basis of Greek patristic sermons (ca. 350-ca. 450 CE) Johan Leemans; 17.
Dissemination of biblical narratives, motifs, and figures through early
Christian inscriptions and homilies Cilliers Breytenbach; 18. How to make
use of pagan knowledge without separating oneself from the church's milk:
the function of otherness in Gregory of Nyssa's theory of self-perfection
Jan Stenger; 19. Female characters as modes of knowing in late imperial
dialogues: the body, desire, and the intellectual life Dawn LaValle Norman;
20. The Christianity of Latin Christian poetry Mark Edwards; 21. Ambrose's
hymns as modes of knowing the 'Real' Brian Dunkle; 22. Confused voices:
sound and sense in the later Augustine Carol Harrison; 23. Precision and
the limits of human autopsy in Augustine's critique of pagan divination
Michael Hanaghan; 24. Duplex via: authority and reason at Cassiciacum
Gerald Boersma; 25. The object of our gaze: visual perception as a mode of
knowing Robin Jensen; 26. Reconsidering the tholos image in the Eusebian
canon tables: symbols, space, and books in the late antique Christian
imagination Matthew Crawford; 27. Condemning the glutton of the monastery:
rhetorical strategies and the epistemology of Philoxenus of Mabbug
Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent; 28. Evagrius of Ponticus on lup¿:
Distress and cognition between philosophy, medicine, and monasticism
Jonathan Zecher; 29. Liturgical modes of knowing: coming to know God (and
oneself) in sixth-century hymns and homilies Sarah Gador-Whyte; 30.
Prolegomena to philosophy and the ascetic ordering of knowledge Michael
Champion; 31. Bureaucratic modes of knowing in the late roman empire Sara
Ahbel-Rappe; 32. The dissemination and appropriation of legal knowledge in
the age of Justinian Peter Sarris; 33. The ordering of knowledge in four
late patristic Christological handbooks Dirk Krausmüller; 34. World and
empire: contrasting the cosmopolitan visions of Maximus the Confessor and
George of Pisidia in seventh century Byzantium Paul Blowers; 35. Boethius
on the ordering of knowledge John Magee; 36. Ordering emotional
communities: modes of knowing in Gregory the Great Bronwen Neil; 37.
Creating knowledge and knowing creation in late antique theological and
scientific writing Helen Foxhall Forbes; 38. Hierarchies of knowledge in
the works of Bede Zachary Guiliano; 39. Epilogue Teresa Morgan.