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Informationen zum Autor Lewis Ayres is Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University. He is the author of Nicaea and Its Legacy (2004) and Augustine's Trinitarian Theology (2010). Michael Champion is Associate Professor and Director of the Australian Catholic University Node, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. His most recent book is Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education ( 2022). Matthew R. Crawford is Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Biblical and Early Christian Studies at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. He is the author, most recently, of The Eusebian Canon Tables (2019). Klappentext "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"-- Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Matyáš 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 Eus...
