Constructing antichrist : Paul, biblical commentary, and the development of doctrine in the early Middle Ages / Kevin L. Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Kevin L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Thessalonians, 2nd--Commentaries--History and criticism.

Bible.

Antichrist--History of doctrines.

Antichrist.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Constructing Antichrist engages readers with the question: what does Paul have to do with the Antichrist? Integrating new scholarship in apocalypticism and the history of exegesis, this book is the first longitudinal study of the role of Paul in apocalyptic thought.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

The Vulgate Text of 2 Thessalonians

1. Introduction: Constructing Antichrist

The Context and the Sense of Apocalyptic Thought

2 Thessalonians: Pauline "Antichristology"

After the Apostle: The Shape of the 2 Thessalonians Tradition

2. The Man of Sin: Apocalyptic Realism in the Early Church, 200-400

Paul and Antichrist in the Early Fathers: The Prehistory of Commentary

The Ambrose Tradition (1): Ambrosiaster

The Ambrose Tradition (2): Theodore of Mopsuestia

The Jerome Tradition (1): Pelagius

The Jerome Tradition (2): Jerome and the Persistence of Apocalyptic Realism

Summary: The Building Blocks of Apocalyptic Realist Exegesis

3. Members of the Enemy Body: The Spiritual Exegesis of 2 Thessalonians

Tyconius

Augustine of Hippo

Excursus: Gregory the Great, The Silent Presence

4. Antichrist and His Body, 500-1000

Pseudo-Primasius: Pelagius Corrected

Antichrist and His Body: The New Synthesis in Carolingian Biblical Scholarship

Rabanus Maurus: Antichrist as the Twofold Denial of Christ

Florus of Lyons: A "Summa" of Augustinian Antichristology

Sedulius Scotus: "Another Nero, of the Same Title"

Haimo of Auxerre: The Providential Delay of Antichrist

The Ambiguity of the End or the End of Ambiguity? Antichrist in the Tenth Century

5. Seeing the Adversary Afresh: Paul and Antichrist in Early Scholastic Exegesis, 1000-1160

Lanfranc of Bec: The Early Glossed Text

Bruno the Carthusian

The Glossa Ordinaria on Paul: Anselm of Laon

From Glossa Ordinaria to Glossa Magnatura: Peter Lombard

6. Conclusion

The Early Medieval Synthesis: Summarizing the Chronological Argument

The Persistence of Apocalypticism: Implications for the History of Theology

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-269) and index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-1613-3

OCLC:

646786247