Christians of the Patristic period in relation to nature / edited by Mariusz Szram and Marcin Wysocki.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Szram, Mariusz, editor.

Wysocki, Marcin, editor.

Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, host institution.

Conference Name:

International Patristic Conference (4th : 2022 : Lublin, Poland), author.

Series:

International Conference on Patristic Studies. Studia patristica ; 131.

Studia Patristica ; vol. CXXXI

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Relations--Congresses.

Catholic Church.

Nature--Religious aspects--Christianity--Congresses.

Nature.

Theology, Doctrinal--Congresses.

Theology, Doctrinal.

Human ecology--Religious aspects--Christianity--Congresses.

Human ecology.

Catholic Church--Relations.

Nature--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Human ecology--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 432 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2024.

Summary:

"This volume in the Studia Patristica series consists of 34 articles devoted to humanity's relation to nature and creation as found in the patristic period, and is the result of the fourth International Patristic Conference, which was held at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Lublin, Poland) on October 18-20, 2022. The articles presented in this volume cover the entire patristic period and discuss various issues related to nature, creation and the Christian's relation to the created world as it was presented in the works of, inter alia, Theophilus of Antioch, Irenaeus of Lyons, Philo, Clement, Origen of Alexandria, Tertullian, Cyprian, Lactantius, Victorinus, Tyconius, Evagrius, Epiphanius of Salamis, Basil of Caesarea, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Nemesius of Emesa, Philastrius of Brescia, Jerome, Augustine, Paulinus of Nola, John Chrysostom, Commodianus, Gregory of Tours and Maximus the Confessor. The articles presented in the volume allow us to know and to understand better the intuitions and interpretations of early Christian writers concerning the relation of human beings to the surrounding natural world created by God; to consider what models and approaches to the animate and inanimate natural world modern people can take over from the Christians of the patristic period; to what extent they are valid today; to what extent they were part of the philosophical and theological context of their time; and in what respects they were original in relation to pagan views."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction / Mariusz Szram, Marcin Wysocki

Nature- our common good? / Markus Vinzent

Natura mirante, the cosmic suspension for the birth of Jesus in the Protoevangelium of James (Prot. Iac. 18, 1-19, 3) / Juri Leoni

Between literal and allegorical interpretation : an exegetical proposal on Hexameron of Theophilius of Antioch / Roberto Spataro

"It was good wine...' (Adversus Haereses III 11, 5). The natural world and the divine gift in Irenaeus of Lyons / Agnès Bastit

The goodness of God and the problem of the creation of the world in time: Philo, Clement, and Origen of Alexandria in dialogue with the middle platonists / Damian Mrugalski

Clement of Alexandria on nature: allegory and beyond / Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski

Looking at the world with the eyes of God: the relation of humankind to nature according to Origen / Lorenzo Perrone

The power of saints and the power of nature in the North African accounts of martyrdoms / Stanislaw Adamiak

Overpopulation and climate change in Tertullian and Cyprian: theology not ecology / Geoffrey D. Dunn

Now the work of God is suffering Earth: Ante-Nicenes on the vivification of clay through Son and Spirit / Cody Glen Barnhart

Eschatological image of nature as an expression of longing for a golden age in the vision of the millennial kingdom in Lactantius' Divinae institutiones VII 24 / Jan Kurowicki

Animate and inanimate nature in the oldest Latin commentaries on the Apocalypse of St. John: Victorinus and Tyconius / Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda

Attitudes to nature in early Christian monasticism / Mariya Horyacha

Snake of the garden and snake of the desert: life-threatening reptiles in Egyptian monastic literature / Przemyslaw Prwowarczyk

Evagrius and nature / Monica Tobon

The natural world in the eyes of Epiphanius of Salamis: between admiration and divinisation / Marek Gilsk, Damian Wasek

'Nature made nothing dumb.' Listening to animal voices in early Christianity / Carol Harrison

Animals as models for a virtuous life in the Hexaemeron of Basil of Caesarea / Harri Huovinen

In the image (kat' eikona) and likeness (kath' homoiōsin), an ecological word starting from Chrysostom / Paul Claude Diokh

Relationship of God and animals in Theodoret of Cyrrhus / Serafim Seppälä

Man as 'microcosm': the philosophical conception of nature in Nemesius of Emesa's anthropology / Daniele Iezzi

Negative semantics of animals in Philastrius of Brescia's Diversarum hereseon liber / Mariusz Szram

Garden of Eden or a place of temptation and fear: St. Jerome about the desert according to his hagiographies / Ivan Bodrožić, Maja Rončević

A lion in the biblical exegesis of St. Jerome of Stridon on the example of Commentary on the Book of Amos / Magdalena Jóźwiak

The basilisk in the writings of St. Jerome / Krzysztof Morta

'Dust as we are': Augustine's Ethopoetic call through creation in the Confessions / Jimmy Chan

On the importance of a garden in the life of Christians. A study of the writings of St. Paulinus of Nola / Marcin Wysocki

Sub antro refugite. Nature, domestication, and paganism in the poetry of Commodianus / Mateusz Kusio

Water as religious symbol and natural element in the works of Gregory of Tours / Emanuele Piazza

The cult of the natural world in the reflections of the Latin Fathers of the Church / Pawel Wygralak

The human as cosmic hierarch: the theocentric anthropology of Maximus the Confessor / Daniel Heide

The re-evaluation of material creation in the theology of Saint Maximus the Confessor / Theocharis S. Papavissarion

Nature, animals, and sexual ethics in early Christian liturature / Travis W. Proctor

Food production as a human participation in transformation of nature: brewing and berr in the Christian though of late antiquity and Early Middle Ages / Oleksandr Kashchuk.

In the image (κατ' εἰκόνα) and likeness (καθ' ὁμοίωσιν), an ecological word starting from Chrysostom / Paul Claude Diokh

Notes:

Papers are the result of the fourth International Patristic Conference held at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland, on October 18-20, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

904295292X

9789042952928

OCLC:

1465666006