Table Of ContentSTUDIA PATRISTICA
VOL. C
Including Papers
Presented at the Sixth British Patristics Conference,
Birmingham, 5–7 September 2016
Edited by
H.A.G. HOUGHTON, M.L. DAVIES and M. VINZENT
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STUDIA PATRISTICA
VOL. C
STUDIA PATRISTICA
Editor:
Markus Vinzent, King’s College London and Max Weber Centre,
University of Erfurt
STUDIA PATRISTICA
VOL. C
Including Papers
Presented at the Sixth British Patristics Conference,
Birmingham, 5–7 September 2016
Edited by
H.A.G. HOUGHTON, M.L. DAVIES and M. VINZENT
PEETERS
LEUVEN – PARIS – BRISTOL, CT
2020
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Table of Contents
H.A.G. HOUGHTON, Birmingham, UK
Introduction ......................................................................................... 1
Frances YOUNG, Birmingham, UK
Teasing Out Meaning: Some Techniques and Procedures in Early
Christian Exegesis ............................................................................... 3
Jennifer STRAWBRIDGE, Oxford, UK
Taking Up Armour: The Challenges of Early Christian Exegesis of
Ephesians ............................................................................................. 19
Michael DORMANDY, Cambridge, UK
‘In Every Letter’? Some Possible Evidence for the Authorship of
Ephesians ............................................................................................. 39
Matthew J. THOMAS, Oxford, UK
Leading Captivity Captive: Paul in Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with
Trypho and the ‘Pauline Captivity’ Narrative .................................... 51
Pui Him IP, Cambridge, UK
Athenagoras of Athens and the Genesis of Divine Simplicity in
Christian Theology .............................................................................. 61
Simeon BURKE, Edinburgh, UK
Tertullian’s Martyrological Maxim: A Case Study for the Multiple Rhe-
torical Functions of the Command to ‘Render to Caesar the Things of
Caesar and to God the Things of God’ in the Writings of Tertullian 71
Paul HARTOG, Des Moines, USA
Clement of Alexandria’s Conflicted Reception of ‘Children’ and
‘Fear’ .................................................................................................... 83
Lavinia CERIONI, Nottingham, UK
‘For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face’
(1Cor. 13:12). Pauline Reception in Origen’s Commentary on the
Song of Songs ...................................................................................... 93
Giovanni HERMANIN DE REICHENFELD, Exeter, UK
‘The Material of the Gifts from God’. Is the Spirit a Creature in
Origen’s Commentary on the Gospel of John? .................................. 103
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Claire HALL, Oxford, UK
Origen and Astrology .......................................................................... 113
Edwina MURPHY, Sydney, Australia
Cyprian, Parenthood, and the Hebrew Bible: Modelling Munificence
and Martyrdom .................................................................................... 123
Victor A. GODOY, São Paolo, Brazil
Orthodoxy, Heresy and Episcopal Authority in the Third-Century
Church: The Debates between Cyprian of Carthage, the Laxist and
the Rigorist Clergy ............................................................................. 133
Kirsten H. MACKERRAS, Oxford, UK
Foolish Faith: Defending Christian Wisdom in Paul and Lactan-
tius ................................................................................................... 143
Wojciech RYBKA, Edinburgh, UK
Jerome’s and Ambrosiaster’s Interpretations of the Jerusalem Coun-
cil’s Prohibitions (Acts 15:20, 29) ....................................................... 155
Luise Marion FRENKEL, São Paolo, Brazil
Historiographic Narratives on the Authority of Imperial Writings in
Christian Polemics ............................................................................... 165
Oliver B. LANGWORTHY, St Andrews, UK
Gregory Nazianzen’s Portrayal of Paul ............................................... 173
Gabrielle THOMAS, Nottingham, UK
Gregory Nazianzen: Interpreting the Human Eikon of God Literally
as a Physical Bearer of God’s Presence .............................................. 181
Jonathan R.R. TALLON, Manchester, UK
Chrysostom, Preaching and Jigsaws: Did John Chrysostom Preach
on Scripture in Series? ........................................................................ 191
Joshua BRUCE, Edinburgh, UK
Appealing to Antichrist: A Critical Examination of Donatist Juridical
Appeals ................................................................................................ 201
Lars Fredrik JANBY, Oslo, Norway
The Cognitive Value of the Disciplines in Augustine’s Mature
Works ....................................................................................................... 209
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Gregory R.P. STACEY, Oxford, UK
Augustine on Faith and Evidence ....................................................... 217
Aäron J. VANSPAUWEN, Leuven, Belgium
Contra Domini uel Apostoli auctoritatem. The Authority of Paul in
the Polemical Treatise De Fide Contra Manichaeos of Evodius of
Uzalis ................................................................................................... 227
Paul PARVIS, Edinburgh, UK
Whistling in the Exegetical Dark: The Latin Pseudo-Origen Com-
mentary on Job .................................................................................... 237
Elena Ene D-VASILESCU, Oxford, UK
‘If you wish to contemplate God’: Pseudo-Dionysius on Will and
Love .................................................................................................... 247
James F. WELLINGTON, Nottingham, UK
The Language of Love: Pseudo-Dionysius’ Detoxification of Eros in
De Divinis Nominibus IV, 11–12 ......................................................... 257
Michael MUTHREICH, Göttingen, Germany
Different Accounts of the Martyrdom of St Paul and their Significance
for the Epistola ad s. Timotheum de Passione Apostolorum Petri et
Pauli Ascribed to Dionysius the Areopagite ...................................... 263
Emma BROWN DEWHURST, Munich, Germany
Three Practical Ways of Thinking about Virtue in Maximus the
Confessor’s Cosmic and Ascetic Theology ........................................ 273
Arnold SMEETS, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Taming the Rhinoceros. Pauline Backings of Gregory’s Mission ..... 281
Susan CREMIN, Cork, Ireland
Christ the Physician. Affliction and Spiritual Healing in Bede’s
Homilies for Lent and Holy Week ...................................................... 291
Susan B. GRIFFITH, Birmingham, UK
‘It doesn’t say’: Metatextual Observations in Greek Patristic Com-
mentaries on Galatians ....................................................................... 303
Theodora PANELLA, Birmingham, UK
A Unique Commentary Manuscript: GA 457 and the Pauline Catena
Tradition............................................................................................... 315
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Alisa KUNITZ-DICK, Cambridge, UK
The Fate of Jerome’s Commentary on Haggai in the Early Middle
Ages ..................................................................................................... 323
Andrés QUERO-SÁNCHEZ, Erfurt, Germany
‘The First Cause gives everything to all things, even to that which
is nothing’: Origen of Alexandria and Meister Eckhart on Rom. 4:17 335
Jeannette KREIJKES, Groningen, The Netherlands, and Leuven, Belgium
Chrysostom’s Exegesis of Galatians: A Dubious Translation Tool for
John Calvin .......................................................................................... 345
Thomas E. HUNT, Birmingham, UK
Alois Riegl, Henri Marrou, and Walter Benjamin: The Interplay of
Modernity and Late Antiquity in Patristic Studies ............................ 357
Mark HUGGINS, Edinburgh, UK
Chrysostom and Chomsky: The Message of Social Justice and Eco-
nomic Equality in the Twenty-First Century ...................................... 365
Catherine SMITH, Birmingham, UK
Introducing the ITSEE Patristic Citations Database .......................... 375
Abbreviations
AA.SS see ASS.
AAWG.PH Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen Philolo-
gisch-historische Klasse, Göttingen.
AB Analecta Bollandiana, Brussels.
AC Antike und Christentum, ed. F.J. Dölger, Münster.
ACL Antiquité classique, Louvain.
ACO Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum, ed. E. Schwartz, Berlin.
ACW Ancient Christian Writers, ed. J. Quasten and J.C. Plumpe, Westminster
(Md.)/London.
AHDLMA Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge, Paris.
AJAH American Journal of Ancient History, Cambridge, Mass.
AJP American Journal of Philology, Baltimore.
AKK Archiv für katholisches Kirchenrecht, Mainz.
AKPAW Abhandlungen der königlichen Preußischen Akademie der Wissen-
schaften, Berlin.
ALMA Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi (Bulletin du Cange), Paris/Brussels.
ALW Archiv für Liturgiewissenschaft, Regensburg.
AnalBoll Analecta Bollandiana, Brussels.
ANCL Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Edinburgh.
ANF Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo/New York.
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, ed H. Temporini et al.,
Berlin.
AnSt Anatolian Studies, London.
AnThA Année théologique augustinienne, Paris.
APOT Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English, ed.
R.E. Charles, Oxford.
AR Archivum Romanicum, Florence.
ARW Archiv für Religionswissenschaft, Berlin/Leipzig.
ASS Acta Sanctorum, ed. the Bollandists, Brussels.
AThANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments, Zürich.
Aug Augustinianum, Rome.
AugSt Augustinian Studies, Villanova (USA).
AW Athanasius Werke, ed. H.-G. Opitz et al., Berlin.
AZ Archäologische Zeitung, Berlin.
BA Bibliothèque augustinienne, Paris.
BAC Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, Madrid.
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, New Haven, Conn.
BDAG A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian
Literature, 3rd edn F.W. Danker, Chicago.
BEHE Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études, Paris.
BETL Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, Louvain.
BGL Benedictinisches Geistesleben, St. Ottilien.
BHG Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca, Brussels.
BHL Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Brussels.
