Papers Presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference, Cardiff, 5-7 September 2018

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by  J. Lössl (editor)

STUDIA PATRISTICA
VOL. CII
Including Papers
Presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference,
Cardiff, 5–7 September 2018
Edited by
N. BAKER-BRIAN and J. LÖSSL
PEETERS
LEUVEN – PARIS – BRISTOL, CT
2021
STUDIA PATRISTICA
VOL. CII
STUDIA PATRISTICA
Editor:
Markus Vinzent, King’s College London and Max Weber Centre,
University of Erfurt
STUDIA PATRISTICA
VOL. CII
Including Papers
Presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference,
Cardiff, 5–7 September 2018
Edited by
N. BAKER-BRIAN and J. LÖSSL
PEETERS
LEUVEN – PARIS – BRISTOL, CT
2021
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Table of Contents
Nicholas BAKER-BRIAN and Josef LÖSSL
Introduction ......................................................................................... 1
PART I: ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY, EARLY CHRISTIANITY
AND JUDAISM
Ilaria L.E. RAMELLI
The Logos/Nous One-Many between ‘Pagan’ and Christian Platonism 11
David L. DUSENBURY
World City: Towards a New Reading of Nemesius of Emesa’s De
natura hominis .................................................................................... 45
Susanna TOWERS
The Manichaean Demoness Ăz and Yetzer Hara ............................... 63
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 ............ 79
Nicholas J. BAKER-BRIAN
Revisiting Proba’s Confession: The Proem of the Vergilian Cento
and the Reign of Julian the Apostate .................................................. 103
Zac ESTERSON
Was Fortunatianus of Aquileia an Anti-Victorinus of Pettau? A Study
in Inheritance, Convergence, Divergence and Regional Context ....... 119
James F. WELLINGTON
Subverting Subversion: An Ontological Reading of Gregory of Nyssa’s
Refutation of Slavery in In Ecclesiasten Homiliae IV ....................... 141
Sara PARVIS
Constantinople 360 and Constantinople 381: A Tale of Two Councils 153
VI Table of Contents
PART III: AUGUSTINE AND HIS AGE
Phillip J. BROWN
Figurabat Ecclesiam: Figuration, Friendship and the Unity of the
Church in Augustine’s Sixth Tractate on John ................................... 175
Georgiana HUIAN
‘In the Synagogue of Gods’: Augustine’s Notion of Deification in
Sermon 23B (Mainz 13) ...................................................................... 191
Math OSSEFORTH
Augustine in the Underworld: An Example of Intertextuality in Saint
Augustine’s Confessions ...................................................................... 205
Marcin WYSOCKI
How to Survive the End of the World? A Study of Latin Christian
Letters of the 4th and 5th Century ....................................................... 217
PART IV: THE END OF ANTIQUITY AND BEYOND
Georgios SISKOS
Identical Foundations of Opposite Christologies: Nestorius of Con-
stantinople and Severus of Antioch. The Critique of St. Maximus the
Confessor ............................................................................................. 231
Michael MUTHREICH
The Second Dionysian Text in Manuscript ‘Vat. Sir. 123’ ................. 247
Hellen DAYTON
A Natural Source of Spiritual Healing Lost in Translation: On Chap-
ter II 45 of the 300 Kephalaia by Nikitas Stithatos ........................... 259
Andrej KUTARŇA
Human Will and Divine Grace – Damascene’s Teaching on Theosis
and its Echo in Aquinas ...................................................................... 269
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 Benediktinisches Geistesleben, St. Ottilien.
BHG Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca, Brussels.
BHL Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Brussels.
VIII Abbreviations
BHO Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Brussels.
BHTh Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, Tübingen.
BJ Bursians Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klassischen Altertums-
wissenschaft, Leipzig.
BJRULM Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester.
BKV Bibliothek der Kirchenväter, ed. F.X. Reithmayr and V. Thalhofer,
Kempten.
BKV2 Bibliothek der Kirchenväter, ed. O. Bardenhewer, Th. Schermann, and
C. Weyman, Kempten/Munich.
BKV3 Bibliothek der Kirchenväter. Zweite Reihe, ed. O. Bardenhewer, J. Zel-
linger, and J. Martin, Munich.
BLE Bulletin de littérature ecclésiastique, Toulouse.
BoJ Bonner Jahrbücher, Bonn.
BS Bibliotheca sacra, London.
BSL Bolletino di studi latini, Naples.
BWAT Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten Testament, Leipzig/Stuttgart.
Byz Byzantion, Leuven.
BZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Leipzig.
BZNW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, Berlin.
CAr Cahiers Archéologique, Paris.
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Washington.
CChr.CM Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, Turnhout/Paris.
CChr.SA Corpus Christianorum, Series Apocryphorum, Turnhout/Paris.
CChr.SG Corpus Christianorum, Series Graeca, Turnhout/Paris.
CChr.SL Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, Turnhout/Paris.
CH Church History, Chicago.
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Berlin.
CP(h) Classical Philology, Chicago.
CPG Clavis Patrum Graecorum, ed. M. Geerard, vols. I-VI, Turnhout.
CPL Clavis Patrum Latinorum (SE 3), ed. E. Dekkers and A. Gaar, Turnhout.
CQ Classical Quarterly, London/Oxford.
CR The Classical Review, London/Oxford.
CSCO Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Louvain.
Aeth = Scriptores Aethiopici
Ar = Scriptores Arabici
Arm = Scriptores Armeniaci
Copt = Scriptores Coptici
Iber = Scriptores Iberici
Syr = Scriptores Syri
Subs = Subsidia
CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Vienna.
CSHB Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae, Bonn.
CTh Collectanea Theologica, Lvov.
CUF Collection des Universités de France publiée sous le patronage de l’Asso-
ciation Guillaume Budé, Paris.
CW Catholic World, New York.
DAC Dictionary of the Apostolic Church, ed. J. Hastings, Edinburgh.
Abbreviations IX
DACL see DAL
DAL Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie, ed. F. Cabrol,
H. Leclercq, Paris.
DB Dictionnaire de la Bible, Paris.
DBS Dictionnaire de la Bible, Supplément, Paris.
DCB Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects, and Doctrines, ed.
W. Smith and H. Wace, 4 vols, London.
DHGE Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastique, ed. A. Baudrillart,
Paris.
Did Didaskalia, Lisbon.
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Cambridge, Mass., subsequently Washing-
ton, D.C.
DOS Dumbarton Oaks Studies, Cambridge, Mass., subsequently Washing-
ton, D.C.
DR Downside Review, Stratton on the Fosse, Bath.
DS H.J. Denzinger and A. Schönmetzer, ed., Enchiridion Symbolorum,
Barcelona/Freiburg i.B./Rome.
DSp Dictionnaire de Spiritualité, ed. M. Viller, S.J., and others, Paris.
DTC Dictionnaire de théologie catholique, ed. A. Vacant, E. Mangenot, and
E. Amann, Paris.
EA Études augustiniennes, Paris.
ECatt Enciclopedia Cattolica, Rome.
ECQ Eastern Churches Quarterly, Ramsgate.
EE Estudios eclesiasticos, Madrid.
EECh Encyclopedia of the Early Church, ed. A. Di Berardino, Cambridge.
EKK Evangelisch-Katholischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament, Neukirchen.
EH Enchiridion Fontium Historiae Ecclesiasticae Antiquae, ed. Ueding-Kirch,
6th ed., Barcelona.
EO Échos d’Orient, Paris.
EtByz Études Byzantines, Paris.
ETL Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, Louvain.
EWNT Exegetisches Wörterbuch zum NT, ed. H.R. Balz et al., Stuttgart.
ExpT The Expository Times, Edinburgh.
FC The Fathers of the Church, New York.
FGH Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, Berlin.
FKDG Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte, Göttingen.
FRL Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments,
Göttingen.
FS Festschrift.
FThSt Freiburger theologische Studien, Freiburg i.B.
FTS Frankfurter theologische Studien, Frankfurt a.M.
FZThPh Freiburger Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie, Freiburg/Switzerland.
GCS Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller, Leipzig/Berlin.
GDV Geschichtsschreiber der deutschen Vorzeit, Stuttgart.
GLNT Grande Lessico del Nuovo Testamento, Genoa.
GNO Gregorii Nysseni Opera, Leiden.
GRBS Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, Mass.