Christians Shaping Identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium: Studies Inspired by Pauline Allen

537 Pages·2015·2.3 MB·English

by  Geoffrey D. Dunn

Christians Shaping Identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium
Supplements
to
Vigiliae Christianae
texts and studies of early christian life and language
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Volume 132
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Christians Shaping Identity from
the Roman Empire to Byzantium
Studies Inspired by Pauline Allen
Edited by
Geoffrey D. Dunn
Wendy Mayer
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Christians shaping identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium : studies inspired by Pauline Allen /
edited by Geoffrey Dunn, Wendy Mayer.
 pages cm. — (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae : texts and studies of early Christian life and language,
ISSN 0920-623X ; Volume 132)
 Includes index.
 ISBN 978-90-04-29897-2 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-30157-3 (e-book) 1. Church history—
Primitive and early church, ca. 30–600. 2. Identification (Religion)—History—To 1500. 3. Identity
(Psychology)—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Dunn, Geoffrey D., 1962– editor.
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations x
List of Contributors xiii
1 Introduction 1
Wendy Mayer and Geoffrey D. Dunn
PART 1
The Roman Empire before Constantine
2 Jews, Gentiles and Ethnic Identity in the Gospel of Matthew 25
David C. Sim
3 Die Herkunft der Christen in der Apologie des Aristides: Baustein zu
einem Kommentar 48
Michael Lattke
4 What did Ancient Christians Say when they Cast out Demons?
Inferences from Spells and Amulets 64
Theodore de Bruyn
PART 2
The Late Antique East
5 On Being a Christian in Late Antiquity: St Basil the Great between the
Desert and the City 85
Andrew Louth
6 The Likeness to God and the Imitation of Christ: The Transformation of
the Platonic Tradition in Gregory of Nyssa 100
Shigeki Tsuchihashi
7 Origen after the Origenist Controversy 117
Miyako Demura
vi contents
8 Shaping the Sick Soul: Reshaping the Identity of John
Chrysostom 140
Wendy Mayer
PART 3
The Late Antique West
9 Theory and Practice in Ambrose: De officiis and the Political
Interventions of the Bishop of Milan 167
Mary Sheather
10 Jerome as Priest, Exegete, and ‘Man of the Church’ 186
Philip Rousseau
11 The Use of Comparison and Contrast in Shaping the Identity of a
Desert Monk 208
Jacobus P.K. Kritzinger
12 Augustine’s Scriptural Exegesis in De sermone Domini in monte and
the Shaping of Christian Perfection 225
Naoki Kamimura
13 Shaping the Poor: The Philosophical Anthropology of Augustine in
the Context of the Era of Crisis 248
Kazuhiko Demura
14 Innocent I on Heretics and Schismatics as Shaping Christian
Identity 266
Geoffrey D. Dunn
PART 4
Byzantium
15 Ariadne Augusta: Shaping the Identity of the Early Byzantine
Empress 293
Brian Croke
Contents vii
16 Dream Interpretation and Christian Identity in Late Antique Rome
and Byzantium 321
Bronwen Neil
17 Shaping Coptic Christian Identity: Severus and the Adoption in Egypt
of the Cult of the Forty Martyrs 342
Youhanna Nessim Youssef
18 The Treatment of Ecumenical Councils in Byzantine Chronicles 364
Roger Scott
19 Flights of Fancy: Some Imaginary Debates in Late Antiquity 385
Averil Cameron
PART 5
Reading the Past, Shaping the Present
20 The Personal Identity of Jesus Christ: Alois Grillmeier’s Contribution
to its Conceptualisation 409
Michael Slusser
21 Christological Declarations with Oriental Churches 426
Theresia Hainthaler
22 ‘Historical Development’ and Early Christianity: George Tyrrell’s
Modernist Adaptation and Critique 454
Elizabeth A. Clark
23 Male-Centred Christology and Female Cultic Incapability: Women’s
impedimentum sexus 478
Kari Elisabeth Børresen
Index of Primary Sources 503
General Index 508

Acknowledgements
It is with gratitude that we acknowledge the editorial board of Supplements to
Vigiliae Christianae and their readers for their advice to authors and their work
on the manuscript. We also thank all those who reviewed the articles in their
first draft, in response to which a number of the authors made substantive
changes. Without both levels of review the volume would be much impover-
ished. The assistance of the editorial staff at Brill, especially Mattie Kuiper and
Louise Schouten, is deeply appreciated and we thank them for expediting the
volume.
Geoffrey Dunn and Wendy Mayer are both former doctoral students of
Pauline Allen. Her inspiration, drive, and exemplum as a researcher have
greatly enriched and in many ways enabled their own careers. This book is
a small token of the incalculable ways in which both as a remarkable person
and as an outstanding researcher she has fostered the careers of countless
other scholars and in which she has for so many years served to further early
Christian studies as a field.