Preliminary Material /Pauline Allen and Cornelis Datema -- General Introduction /Pauline Allen and Cornelis Datema -- Birth of John the Baptist /Pauline Allen and Cornelis Datema -- Palm Sunday /Pauline Allen and Cornelis Datema -- Holy Week /Pauline Allen and Cornelis Datema -- Easter /Pauline Allen and Cornelis Datema -- Mid-Pentecost /Pauline Allen and Cornelis Datema -- Pentecost /Pauline Allen and Cornelis Datema -- Birth of Christ /Pauline Allen and Cornelis Datema -- Transfiguration /Pauline Allen and Cornelis Datema -- Biblical index /Pauline Allen and Cornelis Datema -- Patristic index /Pauline Allen and Cornelis Datema -- General index /Pauline Allen and Cornelis Datema.
This monograph on the Homilies of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI (886-912) provides the first extensive analysis of a neglected corpus of secular and ecclesiastical speeches, and sheds new light on both the fascinating figure of the author and the development of Byzantine homiletics.
In this collection of wedding sermons, Peter Leithart illuminates the subject from many perspectives, forming a loose, down-to-earth "systematic theology of marriage."
This title offers an approachable, surprising, and not always reverent insight into the life of the Early Church. It reveals the full importance of the martyr homily in terms of style, treatment of its subject, and social and liturgical issues.
Preaching formed one of the primary, regular avenues of communication between ecclesiastical elites and a wide range of society. Clergy used homilies to spread knowledge of complex theological debates prevalent in late antique Christian discourse. Some sermons even offer glimpses into the locations in which communities gathered to hear orators preach. Although homilies survive in greater number than most other types of literature, most do not specify the setting of their initial delivery, dating, and authorship. Preaching Christology in the Roman Near East addresses how we can best contextualize sermons devoid of such information. The first chapter develops a methodology for approaching homilies that draws on a broader understanding of audience as both the physical audience and the readership of sermons. The remaining chapters offer a case study on the renowned Syriac preacher Jacob of Serugh (c. 451-521) whose metrical homilies form one of the largest sermon collections in any language from late antiquity. His letters connect him to a previously little-known Christological debate over the language of the miracles and sufferings of Christ through his correspondence with a monastery, a Roman military officer, and a Christian community in South Arabia. He uses this language in homilies on the Council of Chalcedon, on Christian doctrine, and on biblical exegesis. An analysis of these sermons demonstrates that he communicated miaphysite Christology to both elite reading communities as well as ordinary audiences. Philip Michael Forness provides a new methodology for working with late antique sermons and discloses the range of society that received complex theological teachings through preaching.
