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Preaching Christology in the Roman Near East : a study of Jacob of Serugh / Philip Michael Forness.
LIBRA BR65.J286 F66 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forness, Philip Michael, author.
- Series:
- Oxford early Christian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jacob, of Serug, 451-521.
- Jacob.
- Jesus Christ--Person and offices.
- Jesus Christ.
- Preaching.
- Christology.
- Physical Description:
- x, 322 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- 1 The Audience and Readership of Late Antique Homilies p. 22
- Advances in Scholarship on Homilies p. 23
- A More Expansive Audience: Theories of Oral Delivery and Transmission p. 28
- Audience Addressed: The Oral Delivery of Jacob's Homilies p. 33
- Audience Invoked: The Transmission of Jacob's Homilies p. 41
- 2 The Christological Debates and the Miracles and Sufferings of Christ p. 56
- Early Attestations and Preaching of the Christological Pairing p. 57
- The Path to Leo's Tome and the Council of Chalcedon p. 62
- Zeno's Henotikon and the Legacy of the Pairing p. 69
- Reception of the Pairing among Jacob's Contemporaries p. 76
- 3 Jacob of Serugh's Letters as a Context for his Homilies p. 89
- Ecclesiastical Debates: Correspondence with the Monastery of Mar Bassus p. 91
- Public Officials and Christology: The Letter to the comes Bessas p. 99
- Christology beyond the Roman Near East: The Letter to the Himyarites p. 115
- 4 Homilies and Reading Communities p. 134
- The Authenticity of the Homily on the Council of Chalcedon p. 135
- The Christology of the Homily on the Council of Chalcedon p. 139
- The Audience and Readers of the Homily on the Council of Chalcedon p. 148
- 5 Homilies as Tools for Teaching Theology p. 157
- The Unity and Argument of the Homily on the Faith p. 158
- Audiences and Readers of the Homily on the Faith p. 163
- The Insolent Interlocutor: Naming Jacob's Opponents p. 169
- Worshippers of a Human: Recasting Criticisms in a Metrical Homily p. 173
- The Pairing of Miracles and Sufferings: Invoking the Henotikon p. 181
- 6 Homilies and the Spread of Christological Doctrine p. 186
- Typological Exegesis: The Miracles and Sufferings of Moses p. 190
- Exegesis of a Contested Passage: The Confession of Simon Peter p. 208
- Conclusion: Homilies as Historical Sources p. 225.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198826451
- 9780198826453
- OCLC:
- 1023047569
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