Patrology Panaromic View – Fr Tadros Yacoub Malaty

298 Pages·2013·1.77 MB·English

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ANORAMIC IEW
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F ATRISTICS
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N HE IRST IX ENTURIES
W A O O
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ELECTED OPTIC RTHODOX
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ATHERS ND UTHORS
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F HE IDDLE GES
Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty
StGeorge’s CopticOrthodoxChurch
Sporting,Alexandria,Egypt
PreparatoryEdition
2005
A Panoramic View of Patristics
In the First Six Centuries
by
Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty
Published by
St George’s Coptic Orthodox Church, Sporting, Alexandria
ISBN
Printed in Alexandria
Preparatory Edition February 2005
By
St Mina’s Monastery Press
His Holiness Pope Shenouda III
Pope of Alexandria and
117th Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark
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T O C
ABLE F ONTENTS
Preface xix
I
NTRODUCTION
1 Definition 1
2. Thetitle“Father” 1
3. Qualifications forthe “Father”inPatrology 1
4. TheAuthorityoftheFathers 2
5. The LanguageoftheEgyptianFathers 2
6. TheHistoryofPatrology 2
7. ClassificationofPatristicWritings 3
8. OutlineofPatristic Literature 4
C O
HAPTER NE
THEAPOSTOLIC FATHERS ANDTHEAPOSTLES’CREED
Writings of theApostolicFathers
1. St Clement ofRome 7
2. St Ignatius 8
3. St Polycarp 8
4. Barnabas 8
5. Hermas 9
6. TheEpistletoDiognetus 9
7. Papias ofHierapolis 9
8. Quadratus 10
9. TheDidache 10
10. TheApostles’Creed 10
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TheEarlyApologists
1. Quadratus 12
2. Authorofthe LettertoDiognetus 12
3. AuthorofthePreachingofPeter 12
4. Aristides ofAthens 12
5. Aristo ofPella 12
6. StJustintheMartyr 12
7. TatiantheSyrian 14
8. Apollinaris ofHierapolis 15
9. Miltiades 15
10. Theophilus ofAntioch 15
11. MelitoBishop ofSardis 16
12. Minucius Felix 17
13. Tertullian 17
14. TheSayings ofSextus 19
15. Athenagoras ofAthens 19
16. Hermias 19
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THEBEGINNINGOF OTHER CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
1. TheApocryphal LiteratureoftheScriptures 21
2. TheBeginningofChristianPoetryandEarlyHymns 23
3. TheFirst Acts oftheMartyrs 24
4. TheBeginningof Heretical Literature 25
5. TheBeginningof Anti-Heretical Literature 26
GnosticismandtheMainGnosticSects
1. GnosticTeachings 27
2. Gnosticism andAlexandria 28
3. WhyDidGnosticism SpreadinAlexandria? 28
4. OurConcept ofChristian Knowledge 29
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SelectedChristianGnostics
1. Basilides 30
2. Carpocrates 30
3. Valentinus 30
4. Mani andtheManichaeans 31
SomeEarlyAnti-Heretical Writers
1. Dionysius ofCorinth 32
2. Pinytus of Gnossus 32
3. SerapionofAntioch 32
4. Hegesippus 33
5. St Irenaeus 33
6. Others 34
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HAPTER HREE
EARLYCHRISTIANSCHOOLS
EarlySchools of Thought 36
TheImportanceof Early ChristianSchools 36
EASTERNCHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
1. School ofAlexandria 36
2. School ofCaesarea 37
3. AntiochianSchool 37
4. National SyrianSchool ofEdessa 38
5. NestorianSchool ofNisibis 38
6. School ofEvagrianMysticism 38
7. School ofRealistic-Traditonalistic 38
WESTERNCHRISTIANSCHOOL
AfricanSchool 39
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DEANS AND FATHERS OFTHESCHOOLOF ALEXANDRIA
1. Athenagoras 41
2. Pantaenus 41
3. Clement ofAlexandria 42
4. Origen 42
5. Heraclas 45
6. St Dionysius theGreat of Alexandria 46
7. Theognostus 47
8. Pierius 47
9. St PetertheSeal ofMartyrs 47
10. St AlexanderofAlexandria 48
11. St Athanasius theApostolic 49
12. SerapionofThmius 52
13. Didymus the Blind 53
14. St Theophilus ofAlexandria 54
15. Synesius ofCyrene 56
16. St Cyril theGreat 57
17. St Dioscorus 61
18. St TimothyAelurus 64
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HAPTER OUR
THESCHOOLOF ANTIOCH
Antioch 68
TheSchool of Antioch 68
Its Program 68
Stages of theAntiochianSchool 69
MainCharacteristics of AntiochianTheology(in Comparison WithAlexandrianTheology) 69
Problems of theSchool of Antioch 70
AntiochianandAlexandrianChristological Thoughts 70
TheAlexandrianHypostaticUnion“e[nwsij kaqV u`po,stasin” 71
TheAntiochianDyophyses “du,o fu,seij”TwoNatures) 71
The“Indwelling” TheoryandtheHistoric-Grammatical Methodof Exegesis 72