On the matter : studies on Manichaeism and church history presented to Nils Arne Pedersen at sixty-five / edited by Lasse Løvlund Toft, Mattias Sommer Bostrup, René Falkenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pedersen, Nils Arne, 1959- honoree.

Toft, Lasse Løvlund, editor.

Sommer, Mattias Skat, 1989- editor.

Falkenberg, René, editor.

Series:

Corpus fontium Manichaeorum. Analecta Manichaica ; 4.

Corpus fontium manichaeorum. Analecta manichaica, 2565-909X ; IV

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Manichaeism--History.

Manichaeism.

Church history.

church history.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvi, 517 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2025]

Language Note:

24 contributions in English, 3 in German, 2 in French.

Summary:

The anthology consists of twenty-nine studies on Manichaean texts in Coptic, Syriac, Chinese, and Iranian languages, as well as on broader Church History including texts from the Nag Hammadi Codices, Coptic and Syriac heresiology and Early Modern religious polemics. Of interest to all scholars of Manichaeism and Late Antique and Medieval Eastern Christianity, and to scholars working on the phenomenon of heresiology and doctrinal polemics within the churches at large. The anthology is a Festschrift for Nils Arne Pedersen at Aarhus University. publisher's website

Contents:

Manichaean texts, imagery, and terminology

About the use of the term pistos in Coptic Manichaean writings / Jean-Daniel Dubois

Who was Salmaios and what was his lament? / Iain Gardner

Rethinking Manichaean asceticism / Jason BeDuhn

Database of Manichaean texts - past, present, and future / Samuel N.C. Lieu

Secret messages : traces of cryptography in the Middle Persian Manichaean hymns to the Church / Claudia Leurini

Eine Parabel in einer Homilie Manis in parthischer Sprache / Iris Colditz

Middle Iranian fragments in Sogdian script from the St. Petersburg collection - the fourth section of the Manichaean daily prayers in Parthian and some other Middle Iranian texts / Yutaka Yoshida

On the sources of Manichaean Sogdian religious terminology / Nicholas Sims-Williams

A Manichaean Middle Persian text on the descent of the Holy Spirit and the beginning of Mani's Church (M788) / Enrico Morano

Pearl imagery in a Chinese Manichaean hymn / Gunner Mikkelsen

Ligatures in the Syriac Manichaean texts from Kellis / John Møller Larsen

Hunting Manichaean Syriac incantation bowls / Erica C.D. Hunter

Imagery shared and imagery avoided : the Manichaean psalms and Syriac religious poetry / Sebastian P. Brock

Nag Hammadi, the Bible, and early heterodoxy

Manichaeans and Gnostics on the creation of humanity / Einar Thomassen

A luminous soul in the likeness of God : dispensing with the psychic God in Paul's prayer for revelation in Nag Hammadi codex I / Hugo Lundhaug

The Gospel of Truth as fully-fledged Christ religion / Anders Klostergaard Petersen

Das Gleichnis vom viererlei Acker in den synoptischen Evangelien und im Thomasevangelium (Logion 9) / Peter Nagel

Traces of Marcion in the New Testament? / Mogens Müller

Eastern orthodoxies in formation

Acherusischer See und Paradies im Zauberpapyrus London, Brit. Libr. Or. 5987, 1. 13-24 / Jan Dochhorn

Virgin Mary as a heavenly power in Egypt : doctrinal polemics and theological diversity in Coptic and Copto-Arabic homiletic apocrypha on the God-bearer / Lasse Løvlund Toft

Eschatological rivers of fire and purgatorial purification in sixth-century Syriac texts / David G.K. Taylor

Le catalogue d'hérésies de Jacques bar Šakko (XIIIe s.) : Livre des trésors II. De l'Incarnation du Verbe, ch. 1 / Flavia Ruani

Une traduction latine inédite du Contra Manichaeos de Titus de Bostra / Paul-Hubert Poirier

Eusebius of Emesa interpreting Exod. 3:14f : some remarks on recent Eusebius studies / Henning Lehmann

Churches and theologies in early modern and modern northern Europe

"In principio erat error, et error erat apud Lutherum" : Paulus Helie on Luther and his adherents in the Danish Reformation / Per Ingesman

Between Danish and German : a first-generation Danish reformer as Lutheran superintendent (1541-1561) / Rasmus H.C. Dreyer

Theme and variations : Lazarus and the rich man. Iconography of a New Testament narrative in the age of Reform, c. 1500-1640 / Carsten Bach-Nielsen

Grundtvig, the Greeks, and Heresy / Kim Arne Pedersen

The life and afterlives of Bishop Fredrik Nielsen (1846-1907) : social functions of Church history at the fin de siècle / Mattias Sommer Bostrup.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9782503617114

2503617115

OCLC:

1545737508

Publisher Number:

90103564550

9782503617114