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We are currently commissioning authors for volumes covering the following topics: Climate and ... more We are currently commissioning authors for volumes covering the following topics:
Climate and the Environment in Late Antique Studies;
Health, Disease and Death in Late Antique Studies;
Periodisation and Place in Late Antique Studies;
Reception History in Late Antique Studies;
Religious Entanglements in Late Antique Studies;
Rulership in Late Antique Studies;
Sexual Violence in Late Antique Studies;
Science and Scientific Knowledge in Late Antique Studies;
If you’re interested, please contact Nic Baker-Brian at the following address:
baker-briannj1@cardiff.ac.uk
The Classical Review (New Series), Jan 1, 2010
International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, Jan 1, 2009
Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, Jan 1, 2007
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We are currently commissioning authors for volumes covering the following topics: Climate and ... more We are currently commissioning authors for volumes covering the following topics:
Climate and the Environment in Late Antique Studies;
Health, Disease and Death in Late Antique Studies;
Periodisation and Place in Late Antique Studies;
Reception History in Late Antique Studies;
Religious Entanglements in Late Antique Studies;
Rulership in Late Antique Studies;
Sexual Violence in Late Antique Studies;
Science and Scientific Knowledge in Late Antique Studies;
If you’re interested, please contact Nic Baker-Brian at the following address:
baker-briannj1@cardiff.ac.uk
The Classical Review (New Series), Jan 1, 2010
International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, Jan 1, 2009
Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, Jan 1, 2007
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Sixteen papers presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference held at Cardiff between 5 a... more Sixteen papers presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference held at Cardiff between 5 and 7 September 2018. Table of Contents Nicholas Baker-Brian and Josef Lössl Introduction PART I: Ancient Philosophy, Early Christianity and Judaism Ilaria Ramelli The Logos/Nous One-Many between ‘Pagan’ and Christian Platonism David L. Dusenbury World City: Towards a New Reading of Nemesius of Emesa’s De natura hominis Susanna Towers The Manichaean Demoness Ăz and Yetzer Hara PART II: Christianity in Its Cultural Context from the Second to the Fourth Century Josef Lössl Greek and Barbarian Paideia in Tatian’s Oratio ad Graecos Nicholas Baker-Brian Revisiting Proba’s Confession: The proem of the Vergilian Cento and the reign of Julian the Apostate Zac Esterson Was Fortunatianus of Aquileia an Anti-Victorinus of Pettau? A Study in Inheritance, Convergence, Divergence and Regional Context Jim Wellington Subverting Subversion: An Ontological Reading of Gregory of Nyssa’s Refutation of Slavery in In Ecclesiasten Homiliae IV Sara Parvis Constantinople 360 and Constantinople 381: A Tale of Two Councils PART III: Augustine and His Age Phillip Brown Figurabat Ecclesiam: Figuration, Friendship and the Unity of the Church in Augustine’s Sixth Tractate on John Georgiana Huian In the ‘Synagogue of Gods’: Augustine’s Notion of Deification in Sermon 23B (Mainz 13) Math Osseforth Augustine in the Underworld: An Example of Intertextuality in Saint Augustine’s Confessions Marcin Wysocki How to Survive the End of the World? A Study of Latin Christian Letters of the 4th and 5th Century PART IV: The End of Antiquity and Beyond Georgios Siskos Identical Foundations of Opposite Christologies: Nestorius of Constantinople and Severus of Antioch. The Critique of St. Maximus the Confessor Michael Muthreich The Second Dionysian Text in Manuscript ‘Vat. Sir. 123’ Hellen Dayton A Natural Source of Spiritual Healing Lost in Translation: On Chapter 45 of the 300 Kephalaia by Nikitas Stithatos Andrej Kutarna Human Will and Divine Grace – Damascene’s teaching on Theosis and its Echo in Aquinas
Augustinian Studies, 2003
This chapter analyses a selection of the correspondence exchanged between the sons of Constantine... more This chapter analyses a selection of the correspondence exchanged between the sons of Constantine and the Christian church by way of evaluating the relationship between the two parties. It surveys the emergence of the epistolary form as one of the principal ways in which the relationship between the imperial government and the church was consolidated during the reign of Constantine I, and it discusses the role of epistolary constitutions in crystallising this relationship during the reigns of Constantine’s immediate successors. The chapter discusses the language and form of imperial epistolary constitutions addressed by the Constantinian emperors to key episcopal figures in the church by focusing on the letters exchanged between Constantius II and key Nicene figures including Athanasius of Alexandria and Hilary of Poitiers. The chapter argues that these texts played a formative role in shaping the parameters of religious rhetoric and theology during the reigns of Constantine’s sons.
The Classical Review, 2018
This chapter evaluates the Manichaean Kephalaia-collections from the perspective of recent develo... more This chapter evaluates the Manichaean Kephalaia-collections from the perspective of recent developments in the study of late-antique rhetoric, specifically the role and context of dialogue in ancient literature and philosophy. It pays close attention to the recently edited material from the Coptic text, The Chapters of the Wisdom of my Lord Mani, by analysing the engagements between Mani and a number of teachers associated with the court of the Sasanian monarch, Shapur I. The chapter highlights the importance of Mani’s dialogues with competitor figures from the Sasanian Empire to the development of the religious identity of Manichaeans in late-antique Persia and Egypt.
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Irish Theological Quarterly
Irish Theological Quarterly
Harvard Theological Review
Recent publications concerned with attitudes to the human body in the religion of Mani have revea... more Recent publications concerned with attitudes to the human body in the religion of Mani have revealed a complex spectrum of ideas. A reading of the “Manichaean body” informed by a gnostic polarity of flesh versus spirit has been largely rejected, and a more complex, ambivalent portrayal of the body, shaped by specific cosmological and theological readings of its origin and purpose, has come to light. New interpretive tools and approaches have changed perceptions of classical texts and revealed how the “subjugated, perfected [Manichaean body was] put into use in the process of salvation.” For example, rereading chapter 70 of the Coptic work the Kephalaia of the Teacher, we encounter a complex lesson that betrays the Manichaeans’ understanding of the dual heritage of the human body. Here the Mani of the Kephalaia instructs his disciples about the correspondences that exist between the fleshly body and the universe and formulates them in a manner that suggests a simultaneous patterning ...
Wiley Blackwell, 2018
A survey of the development, geographic spread, and cultural influence of religion in Late Antiqu... more A survey of the development, geographic spread, and cultural influence of religion in Late Antiquity, from the second century to the eighth century of the Common Era. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the Companion explores the evolution and development of religion and the role various religions played in the cultural, political, and social transformations of the late antique period. The authors examine the theories and methods used in the study of religion as it existed during that period, consider the most notable historical developments, and reveal how religions spread geographically. The authors also review the major religious traditions that emerged in Late Antiquity and include reflections on the interaction of these religions within their particular societies and cultures.