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This comprehensive volume brings together a team of distinguished scholars to create a wide-ranging introduction to patristic authors and their contributions to not only theology and spirituality, but to philosophy, ecclesiology, linguistics, hagiography, liturgics, homiletics, iconology, and other fields. These newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars cover the reception history of prominent as well as lesser-known figures, offering synthetic accounts of a number of topics central to patristic studies, including scripture, scholasticism, and the Reformation.
The volume examines the work of authors who wrote in languages other than Latin and Greek, including those writing within the Coptic, Ethiopic, Syriac, and Arabic Christian traditions. It challenges accepted definitions and notions about the scope of patristics and the patristic period, in particular questioning the Western framework in which the field has traditionally been constructed. The contributors also demonstrate the importance of knowing which figures have been central to historical events, why some have been neglected at the expense of others, and why many have undergone periods of repudiation and revived interest. Above all,
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Patristics demonstrates the continuing role of these writings in enriching and inspiring our understanding of Christianity, both past and present.
List of contents
Preface x
Notes on Contributors xi
Part I Introduction 1 1 The Nature and Scope of Patristics 3
Ken Parry Part II Collecting the Fathers 13 2 Byzantine Florilegia 15
Alexander Alexakis 3 Modern Patrologies 51
Angelo Di Berardino Part III Studies in Reception History I: Individual Fathers 69 4 Irenaeus of Lyons 71
Denis Minns 5 Clement of Alexandria 84
Piotr Ashwin?]Siejkowski 6 Origen of Alexandria 98
Mark Edwards 7 Athanasius of Alexandria 111
David M. Gwynn 8 Ephrem of Nisibis 126
Andrew Palmer 9 John Chrysostom 141
Wendy Mayer 10 Augustine of Hippo 155
Kazuhiko Demura 11 Cyril of Alexandria 170
Hans van Loon 12 Shenoute of Atripe 184
Janet Timbie 13 Nestorius of Constantinople 197
George Bevan 14 Dionysius the Areopagite 211
István Perczel 15 Severus of Antioch 226
Youhanna Nessim Youssef 16 Gregory the Great 238
Bronwen Neil 17 Maximos the Confessor 250
Andrew Louth 18 John of Damascus 264
Vassilis Adrahtas 19 Gregory of Narek 278
Abraham Terian 20 Gregory Palamas 293
Marcus Plested Part IV Studies in Reception History II: Collective Fathers 307 21 The Cappadocian Fathers 309
H. Ashley Hall 22 The Desert Fathers and Mothers 326
John Chryssavgis 23 The Iconophile Fathers 338
Vladimir Baranov Part V Studies in the Fathers 353 24 Scripture and the Fathers 355
Paul Blowers 25 Hagiography of the Greek Fathers 370
Stephanos Efthymiadis 26 Liturgies and the Fathers 385
Hugh Wybrew 27 Fathers and the Church Councils 400
Richard Price 28 The Fathers and Scholasticism 414
James R. Ginther 29 The Fathers and the Reformation 428
Irena Backus 30 The Fathers in Arabic 442
Alexander Treiger 31 The Greek of the Fathers 456
Klaas Bentein 32 The Latin of the Fathers 471
Carolinne White 33 Reimagining Patristics: Critical Theory as a Lens 487
Kim Haines?]Eitzen Index 497
About the author
Ken Parry is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He researches and publishes in the fields of late antiquity, Byzantine studies, and Eastern Christianity. He is the founding editor of the series Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, and editor of
The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (1999),
The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity (2007), and co-editor of
Byzantium, Its Neighbours and Its Cultures (2014).
Summary
This comprehensive volume brings together a team of distinguished scholars to create a wide-ranging introduction to patristic authors and their contributions to not only theology and spirituality, but to philosophy, ecclesiology, linguistics, hagiography, liturgics, homiletics, iconology, and other fields.
