The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature

Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies Andrew Louth

Cambridge University Press, 2004 - 538 pagine

The writings of the Church Fathers form a distinct body of literature that shaped the early church and built upon the doctrinal foundations of Christianity established within the New Testament. Christian literature in the period c. 100-c. 400 constitutes one of the most influential textual oeuvres of any religion. Written mainly in Greek, Latin and Syriac, Patristic literature emanated from all parts of the early Christian world and helped to extend its boundaries. The History offers a systematic account of that literature and its setting. The work of individual writers in shaping the various genres of Christian literature is considered, alongside three general essays, covering distinct periods in the development of Christian literature, which survey the social, cultural and doctrinal context within which Christian literature arose and was used by Christians.

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Sommario

• Introduction the literary culture of the earliest Christianity: 5
• The apostolic and subapostolic writings the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers: 11
• Gnostic literature: 20
• Apocryphal writings and Acts of the martyrs: 28
• The Apologists: 36
• Irenaeus of Lyon: 45
• CONTEXT AND INTERPRETATION: 53
• Social and historical setting: 55
• Articulating identity: 71
• Christian teaching: 91
• Conclusion towards a hermeneutic of secondcentury texts: 105
• THE THIRD CENTURY: 113
• LITERARY GUIDE: 115
• The Alexandrians: 117
• The beginnings of Latin Christian literature: 131
• Hippolytus PsHippolytus and the early canons: 142
• Cyprian and Novatian: 152
• The earliest Syriac literature: 161
• Concluding review the literary culture of the third century: 172
• CONTEXT AND INTERPRETATION: 179
• Social and historical setting Christianity as culture critique: 181
• Articulating identity: 200
• Christian teaching: 222
• The significance of thirdcentury Christian literature: 239
• FOUNDATION OF A NEW CULTURE FROM DIOCLETIAN TO CYRIL: 247
• LITERARY GUIDE: 249
• Classical genres in Christian guise Christian genres in classical guise: 251
• Arnobius and Lactantius: 259
• Eusebius and the birth of church history: 266
• The fourthcentury Alexandrians Athanasius and Didymus: 275
• Palestine Cyril of Jerusalem and Epiphanius: 283
• The Cappadocians: 289
• Fourthcentury Latin writers Hilary Victorinus Ambrosiaster Ambrose: 302
• Jerome and Rufinus: 318
• Augustine: 328
• John Chrysostom and the Antiochene School to Theodoret of Cyrrhus: 342
• Cyril of Alexandria: 353
• Hagiography: 358
• Ephrem and the Syriac tradition: 362
• The literature of the monastic movement: 373
• Women and words texts by and about women: 382
• Conciliar records and canons: 391
• CONTEXT AND INTERPRETATION: 397
• Social and historical setting: 399
• Articulating identity: 414
• Christian teaching: 464
• Retrospect interpretation and appropriation: 485
• Bibliographies: 495
• Index: 531

Informazioni sull'autore

Frances Young is Emerita Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham.

Lewis Ayres is Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the Candler School of Theology and Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University.

Andrew Louth is Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies at the University of Durham.

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo: The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature; Cambridge histories online
• Autore: Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies Andrew Louth
• Curatori: Frances Young, Lewis Ayres, Andrew Louth, Augustine Casiday, Cambridge University Press
• Edizione: illustrata, ristampa
• Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0521460832, 9780521460835
• Lunghezza: 538 pagine