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Author: Robert Couzin
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2015-04-30
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1784910821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph engages in a close reading of the traditio legis, highlighting its novelty and complexity to early Christian viewers. The image is analyzed as a conflation of two distinct forms of representation, each constructed of unusual and potentially multivalent elements.
Author: Robert Couzin
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781784910815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph engages in a close reading of the traditio legis, highlighting its novelty and complexity to early Christian viewers. The image is analyzed as a conflation of two distinct forms of representation, each constructed of unusual and potentially multivalent elements.
Author: Stephen Andrew Cooper
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2005-03-24
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0191520772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first English translation of Marius Victorinus' commentary on Galatians. Analytical notes, full bibliography, and a lengthy introduction make this book a valuable resource for the study of the first Latin commentator on Paul. No such comparable work exists in English; and this volume engages fully with German, French, and Italian scholarship on Victorinus' commentaries. A number of themes receive special treatment in a lengthy introduction: the relation of Victorinus' exegetical efforts to the trinitarian debates; the iconography of the apostle Paul in mid-fourth-century Rome; Victorinus' exegetical methodology; his intentions as a commentator; and the question of his influence on later Latin commentators (Ambrosiaster and Augustine).
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-11-14
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9004527494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuedlinburg Abbey was one of the oldest and most prestigious women's religious communities in medieval Germany. This essay collection conveys the abbey’s illustrious history, political importance, and cultural significance through studies on, among others, its architecture, rich treasury, and its abbatial effigies.
Author: Daniel C. Cochran
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 197870769X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Building the Body of Christ, Daniel C. Cochran argues that monumental Christian art and architecture played a crucial role in the formation of individual and communal identities in late antique Italy. The ecclesiastical buildings and artistic programs that emerged during the fourth and fifth centuries not only reflected Christianity’s changing status within the Roman Empire but also actively shaped those who used them. Emphasizing the importance of materiality and the body in early Christian thought and practice, Cochran shows how bishops and their supporters employed the visual arts to present a Christian identity rooted in the sacred past but expressed in the present through church unity and episcopal authority. He weaves together archaeological and textual evidence to contextualize case studies from Rome, Aquileia, and Ravenna, showing how these sites responded to the diversity of early Christianity as expressed through private rituals and the imperial appropriation of the saints. Cochran shows how these early ecclesiastical buildings and artistic programs worked in conjunction with the liturgy to persuade individuals to adopt alternative beliefs, practices, and values that contributed to the formation of institutional Christianity and the “Christianization” of late antique Italy.
Author: Galit Noga-Banai
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-04-24
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0199217742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this pioneering study, the first of its kind, Galit Noga-Banai analyses silver reliquaries decorated with Christian figurative themes. She offers a clearer and more detailed picture of the beginnings of the cult of relics, which were an essential asset to the Church in its establishment of pilgrimage centres and local hagiographic heritage sites, first in Italy and later in other places around Europe and North Africa. At the same time, Noga-Banai highlights the identity of theobjects as portable art, treating the reliquaries as visual historical testimonies. The book is illustrated with nearly 100 finely reproduced drawings and photographs.
Author: Helen K. Bond
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0802871712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong overshadowed by the apostle Paul, Peter has received increased scholarly attention of late. Building on that resurgence of interest, nineteen internationally prominent scholars of early Christian history examine and reassess the historical Peter and his significance in Christian texts from the first three centuries. Giving due attention to archaeological data and recent scholarship, the contributors offer a comprehensive view of Peter through analysis of both New Testament texts and later, noncanonical literature. Markus Bockmuehl concludes the volume by considering present-day questions about the role of Peter, popes, and church leadership.
Author: G. Hellemo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-11-24
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9004304207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreliminary material /GEIR HELLEMO -- BACKGROUND /GEIR HELLEMO -- THEME GROUP I: CHRIST AS SOVEREIGN IN THE APOSTOLIC COLLEGIUM /GEIR HELLEMO -- THEME GROUP II: CHRIST AS LAWGIVER AMONG THE APOSTLE PRINCES /GEIR HELLEMO -- THEME-GROUP III: THE CROSS AS A CENTRAL CHRISTOLOGICAL MOTIF /GEIR HELLEMO -- BACKGROUND /GEIR HELLEMO -- CYRIL OF JERUSALEM /GEIR HELLEMO -- THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA /GEIR HELLEMO -- AMBROSE OF MILAN /GEIR HELLEMO -- CONCLUSION /GEIR HELLEMO -- BIBLIOGRAPHY /GEIR HELLEMO -- INDEX /GEIR HELLEMO -- PLATES /GEIR HELLEMO.
Author: William W. Quinn Jr.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997-02-06
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1438416652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Only Tradition examines the first principles of the perennial philosophy or ancient wisdom tradition as expressed in the writings of René Guénon and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, and the current breakdown of value, meaning, and culture in the West due to the decline of these principles since the thirteenth century. The book further focuses on the relationship or reciprocity between the first principles and Western and Eastern culture, and discusses the future development of a homogenous, worldwide system of belief that would restore value and meaning to people's lives. Quinn argues for a return to the first principles inherent in the perennial philosophy, which constitute the sacred primordial Tradition and which inform all the world's great religious traditions. His book makes an excellent introduction to this powerful current of European esoteric thought—primordial tradition.
Author: John Fotopoulos
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-10-01
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9047407148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a collection of scholarly studies honoring Prof.Dr. David. E. Aune on his 65th birthday. Its title, The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune, reflects Prof. Aune's academic training, interests, and extensive publications. The volume's studies investigate a range of topics within the Pauline correspondence, Gospels, Apocalypse of John, and other early Christian writings with insights drawn from Greco-Roman culture and Hellenistic Judaism. Thus, the studies make use of Greco-Roman literature, rhetoric, magic, medicine, moral philosophy, iconography, archaeology, religious cults, and social conventions while also utilizing social-historical, social-scientific, literary-critical, and rhetorical-critical methodologies, thereby adding an interdisciplinary dimension to the volume. These groundbreaking studies have been written by prominent international scholars and are published here for the first time.
