The Idea of Apostolicity in Byzantium and the Legend of the Apostle Andrew
Author: Francis Dvornik
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13:
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Between Saint James and Erasmus: Studies in Late-Medieval Religious Life – Devotion and Pilgrimage in the Netherlands
Author: Jan van Herwaarden
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13: 900447367X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is divided into four sections: late medieval devotion in the Netherlands; medieval Christian pilgrimage; the medieval cult of St. James the Great and Erasmiana. Variety and coherence sound the keynote in the title and the contents of the book. Religious concepts and expressions of religious faith such as pilgrimages and indulgences are representative of late-medieval Christianity. In this book they refer specifically to the medieval cult of St. James the Great, while for Erasmus they were an object of his critical consideration. The whole book can be read in the light of the debate about the tension between an appreciation for outward signs of faith, and the inward experience of religious belief, which Erasmus considered an absolute necessity.
Selected Essays, Volume II
Author: Andrew Louth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-08-17
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0192882821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaken together, these two volumes collect seventy-five essays written by Professor Andrew Louth over a forty-year period. Louth's contribution to scholarship and theology has always been significant, and these essays have been collected from journals and edited collections, many of which are difficult to access, and are here made available over two thought-provoking and wide-ranging volumes. Volume II collects essays on a variety of theological topics, arranged chronologically, showing the development of Louth's thought since 1978. Throughout this collection the nature of 'theology', as it is understood within Orthodox tradition, is a constant concern. These essays offer distinctive reflections on categories -- such as 'development of doctrine' -- that have become foundational in modern western thought but which must be viewed rather differently from an Orthodox perspective. The legacy of modern Russian Orthodox thought -- especially the key figures of the twentieth century Russian diaspora -- is under constant consideration, and forms a constant dialogue partner.
The Papacy and the Orthodox
Author: A. Edward Siecienski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-01-12
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 0190650923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Papacy and the Orthodox examines the centuries-long debate over the primacy and authority of the Bishop of Rome, especially in relation to the Christian East, and offers a comprehensive history of the debate and its underlying theological issues. Siecienski masterfully brings together all of the biblical, patristic, and historical material necessary to understand this longstanding debate. This book is an invaluable resource as both Catholics and Orthodox continue to reexamine the sources and history of the debate.
The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Author: James Howard-Johnston
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2000-01-07
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0191544353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains eleven essays, prefaced by a general introduction, on a set of related themes: the characteristic traits and diverse functions of holy men; the fashioning of saints out of a small minority of holy men and a number of other individuals of high social status but with more dubious spiritual credentials; the literary processes involved in the construction of hagiographical texts; the role of hagiography in the creation and diffusion of cults; and the worldly interests and other purposes which were served by hagiographical texts and the cults which they propagated. These themes are explored across a wide range of social and cultural milieux, extending from the late antique east Mediterranean through the early medieval Frankish world and Byzantium to Russia and Islam in the high middle ages. The work of Peter Brown, in particular his article, 'The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity', first published in 1971, forms a constant point of reference, acknowledged by the contributors as having irradiated the whole field with fresh, provocative, and illuminating ideas.
New Testament Apocrypha: Writings relating to the Apostles; Apocalypses and related subjects
Author: Wilhelm Schneemelcher
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 788
ISBN-13: 9780664227227
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Irenaeus of Sirmium and His Story in the Medieval East and West
Author: Marijana Vuković
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-12-01
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0429513674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the three key markers of sanctity – cult, hagiography, feast day – together for the first time / The first book to explore an ‘unsuccessful’ saint in detail / Investigates the texts in all the languages in which they were written: Latin, Greek, Old Church Slavonic, Georgian, and Armenian / Includes original research of hagiographical manuscripts
History of Scholarship
Author: Christopher Ligota
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2006-04-06
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 0191515833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of scholarship has undergone a complete renewal in recent years, and is now a major branch of research with vast territories to explore; a substantial introduction to History of Scholarship surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion.The authors, all specialists of international standing, come from a variety of backgrounds: classical studies, history of religions, philosophy, early modern intellectual and religious history. Their papers illustrate a variety of themes and approaches, including Renaissance antiquarianism and philology; the rise of the notion of criticism; Biblical and patristic scholarship, and its implications for both confessional orthodoxy and eighteeenth-century free thought; the history of philosophy; and German historiographical thought in both the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. This challenging volume constitutes a collection of remarkable quality, helping to establish the history of scholarship as a more broadly acknowledged, worthwhile field of study in its own right.
Women in Pastoral Office
Author: Mary M. Schaefer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-11
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 0199977623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMary M. Schaefer examines the ninth-century church Santa Prassede and its foundation myth, as well as an ideal of balanced male-female relationships and women holding pastoral office in the church of Rome.
The Transfigured Kingdom
Author: Ernest A. Zitser
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-09-05
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1501711083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this richly comparative analysis of late Muscovite and early Imperial court culture, Ernest A. Zitser provides a corrective to the secular bias of the scholarly literature about the reforms of Peter the Great. Zitser demonstrates that the tsar's supposedly "secularizing" reforms rested on a fundamentally religious conception of his personal political mission. In particular, Zitser shows that the carnivalesque (and often obscene) activities of the so-called Most Comical All-Drunken Council served as a type of Baroque political sacrament—a monarchical rite of power that elevated the tsar's person above normal men, guaranteed his prerogative over church affairs, and bound the participants into a community of believers in his God-given authority ("charisma"). The author suggests that by implicating Peter's "royal priesthood" in taboo-breaking, libertine ceremonies, the organizers of such "sacred parodies" inducted select members of the Russian political elite into a new system of distinctions between nobility and baseness, sacrality and profanity, tradition and modernity. Tracing the ways in which the tsar and his courtiers appropriated aspects of Muscovite and European traditions to suit their needs and aspirations, The Transfigured Kingdom offers one of the first discussions of the gendered nature of political power at the court of Russia's self-proclaimed "Father of the Fatherland" and reveals the role of symbolism, myth, and ritual in shaping political order in early modern Europe.
