Mani's Pictures
Mani's Pictures

Author: Zsuzsanna Gulácsi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-04-18

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 9004308946

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The founder of Manichaeism, Mani (216-274/277 CE), not only wrote down his teachings to prevent their adulteration, but also created a set of paintings—the Book of Pictures—to be used in the context of oral instruction. That pictorial handscroll and its later editions became canonical art for Mani's followers for a millennium afterwards. This richly illustrated study systematically explores the artistic culture of religious instruction of the Manichaeans based on textual and artistic evidence. It discusses the doctrinal themes (soteriology, prophetology, theology, and cosmology) depicted in Mani’s canonical pictures. Moreover, it identifies 10th-century fragments of canonical picture books, as well as select didactic images adapted to other, non-canonical art objects (murals, hanging scrolls, mortuary banners, and illuminated liturgical manuscripts) in Uygur Central Asia and Tang-Ming China.

Mani
Mani

Author: L. J. R. Ort

Publisher: Brill Archive

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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Mani
Mani

Author: Ort

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1967-06

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9004669337

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Mani and Augustine
Mani and Augustine

Author: Johannes van Oort

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-02-10

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 9004417591

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Mani and Augustine: collected essays on Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine gathers in one volume contributions on Manichaean scholarship made by the internationally renowned scholar Johannes van Oort. The first part of the book focuses on the Babylonian prophet Mani (216-277) who styled himself an ‘apostle of Jesus Christ’, on Jewish elements in Manichaeism and on ‘human semen eucharist’, eschatology and imagery of Christ as ‘God’s Right Hand’. The second part of the book concentrates on the question to what extent the former ‘auditor’ Augustine became acquainted with Mani’s gnostic world religion and his canonical writings, and explores to what extent Manichaeism had a lasting impact on the most influential church father of the West.

Mani in Dublin
Mani in Dublin

Author: Siegfried G. Richter

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 9004289127

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In 2009 the Seventh International Conference of Manichaean Studies was held at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. The 22 selected papers of this volume offer a deep insight into the faith of Manichaean communities ranging from the very beginning of the 3rd century up to the last traces of worship today. Among others the authors deal with sources from Augustin, John the Grammarian, Ephrem the Syrian and further sources written in Coptic, Sogdian, Middle Persian, Parthian and Chinese. Several studies about Manichaean art and iconography offer a visual impression, which gives a new opportunity for understanding the religion of Light.

Studies in Manichaean Literature and Art
Studies in Manichaean Literature and Art

Author: Manfred Heuser

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1997-12-31

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9789004107168

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This volume consists of two sections. The first is a general analysis by Manfred Heuser of "The Manichaean Myth According to Coptic Sources." The second is a collection of essays by Hans-Joachim Klimkeit on various aspects of Manichaeism including Manichaean symbolism and art.

T&T Clark Handbook of the Early Church
T&T Clark Handbook of the Early Church

Author: Ilaria L.E. Ramelli

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-12-16

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13: 0567680401

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Exploring the key documents, authors and themes of Early Christian traditions, this volume traces the vital trajectories of emerging distinctive Christian identity in the Graeco-Roman world. Special attention is given to the coherent growth of Christian faith in connection with worship, alongside the crucial transformation of Christian life and doctrine under the Christian Emperors. As well as offering a chronological development of the Early Church, the book examines the interaction between Christian worship and faith. In addition, readers interested in systematic theology can refer to chapters on the roots of some significant theological notions in Christian Antiquity, also with reference to ancient philosophy. Issues addressed include: · Distinctiveness of the Christian identity during the first centuries · Diversity of communities and their theologies · Connection between faith and worship · Transition from the persecuted minority to triumphant Church with Creeds · History of early Christian thought and modern systematic theology

Ascetica
Ascetica

Author: Elizabeth A. Livingstone

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9789068315196

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Papers presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1991 (see also Studia Patristica 24, 26, 27 and 28). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.