Table Of ContentPATRISTIC STUDIES
IN THE
TWENTY-FIRST
CENTURY
PROCEEDINGS
OF AN INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE TO MARK
THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
OF PATRISTIC STUDIES
Edited by
Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
Theodore de Bruyn
Carol Harrison
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Carol Harrison - Theodore de Bruyn
Introduction 9
KEYNOTE
Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Patristic Worlds 25
OVERVIEW OF PATRISTIC STUDIES
Martin Wallraff
Whose Fathers? An Overview of Patristic Studies in Europe 57
Marcin R. Wysocki
Between Western and Eastern Traditions: Polish Patristic Studies
after World War II 73
Dennis Trout
The State of Patristics in North America 89
Francisco García Bazán
Los estudios patrísticos en Sudamérica y el Caribe 107
Satoshi Toda
Patristic Studies in East Asia (Mainly in Japan) 125
Bronwen Neil
Patristics in Australia: Current Status and Future Potential 145
Michel Willy Libambu
La contribution des études patristiques à la théologie africaine : L’étude
des Pères de l’Église à l’école théologique de Kinshasa (1957-2013) 163
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Adolph Martin Ritter
The Origins of AIEP 195
Angelo Di Berardino
The Development of the AIEP/IAPS 209
Jean-Noël Guinot
Éditer et traduire les écrits des Pères dans Sources Chrétiennes :
regard sur soixante-dix ans d’activité éditoriale 221
PATRISTICS AND THE CONFLUENCE
OF JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, AND MUSLIM CULTURES
Averil Cameron
Patristic Studies and the Emergence of Islam 249
Emanuel Fiano
The Construction of Ancient Jewish Christianity in the Twentieth
Century: The Cases of Hans-Joachim Schoeps and Jean Daniélou 279
Timothy Pettipiece
Manichaeism at the Crossroads of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim
Traditions 299
PATRISTICS BETWEEN EASTERN
AND WESTERN CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS
Columba Stewart osb
Patristics beyond ‘East’ and ‘West’ 317
Barbara Crostini
A Meeting-Point between East and West: Hesychius of Jerusalem
and the Interpretation of the Psalter in Byzantium 343
PATRISTICS AND THEOLOGY
Christoph Markschies
Patristics and Theology: From Concordance and Conflict to Competi-
tion and Collaboration? 367
Lenka Karfíková
The Fifth Theological Oration of Gregory Nazianzen and the Historical
Contingency of Revelation 389
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Eimhin Walsh
Formation from the Fathers: The Place of Patristics in the Theological
Education of Clergy 405
Reuven Kiperwasser - Serge Ruzer
Syriac Christians and Babylonian Jewery: Narratives and Identity
Shaping in a Multi-Religious Setting 421
PATRISTICS, LITERATURE, AND HISTORIES
OF THE BOOK
Mark Vessey
‘La patristique, c’est autre chose’: André Mandouze, Peter Brown,
and the Avocations of Patristics as a Philological Science 443
Dominique Côté
Les ‘Pseudo-Clémentines’ et le choix du roman grec 473
Tina Dolidze
Patristics – as Reflected in Georgian Spiritual and Intellectual History 497
Yonatan Moss
The Rise and Function of the Holy Text in Late Antiquity: Severus
of Antioch, the Babylonian Talmud, and Beyond 521
PATRISTICS AND ART
Robin M. Jensen
Integrating Material and Visual Evidence into Early Christian Studies:
Approaches, Benefits, and Potential Problems 549
Anne Karahan
Patristics and Byzantine Meta-Images: Molding Belief in the Divine
from Written to Painted Theology 571
PATRISTICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Bernard J. Mulholland
Identification of Early Byzantine Constantinopolitan, Syrian, and
Roman Church Plans in the Levant and Some Possible Consequences 597
Eirini Panou
The Church of Mary in the Probatic Pool and the Haghiasmata of
Constantinople 635
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CAROL HARRISON THEODORE DE BRUYN
Durham University University of Ottawa
President of AIEP/IAPS, 2007-2011 President of AIEP/IAPS, 2011-2015
INTRODUCTION
The Association Internationale d’Études Patristiques (AIEP) /
International Association of Patristic Studies (IAPS) had a long
gestation. The idea of an international association was pro-
posed by Michele Pellegrino at the Fourth International
Conference on Patristic Studies in 1963. Over the next two
years the idea was advanced by Henri-Irénée Marrou, initially
among French scholars and then more widely. The Associa-
tion was founded at a colloquium convened at the Sorbonne
on 26 June 1965, with a provisional Executive Committee
comprising Henri-Irénée Marrou, President, Jacques Fontaine,
Secretary, Pieter G. van der Nat, Treasurer, and Kurt Aland
and Frank L. Cross, Vice-Presidents. Finally, the Association
was formally constituted with a duly elected Executive Com-
mittee and Council at the Fifth International Conference on
Patristic Studies in 1967. 1
The preparation of this volume of papers to mark the fiftieth
anniversary of the founding of the Association had an equally
long gestation. The idea of a conference to mark the anniversary
was initially suggested at a meeting of the Executive Commit-
tee in 2010. The proposal to hold the conference in Jerusalem
in 2013 was presented to the Council at the Sixteenth Interna-
1 The paper in this volume by Adolf Martin Ritter, President of the
Association from 1983 to 1991, reflects on the state of Patristics in Europe in the
decades leading up to the formation of the Association. The paper by Angelo
Di Berardino, President of the Association from 1999 to 2003, describes the
history of the Association in the decades after its founding.
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tional Conference on Patristic Studies in 2011. The conference
was convened on 25-27 June 2013 in Jerusalem under the aus-
pices of the Center for the Study of Christianity in the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, fifty years after an association was first
proposed. This volume of papers will be published, we hope, in
time for the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic
Studies in 2015, fifty years after the Association was founded.
No single conference or collection of papers can embrace
the range, diversity, and richness of the scholarship that has
been the raison d’être and life of the Association, which now has
more than 870 members in over 50 countries. In planning the
conference, the Executive Committee sought to bring together
established and newer scholars to reflect on two aspects of the
Association and its field of study: the state of Patristics in dif-
ferent regions of the globe, and the multiple perspectives and
disciplines currently brought to bear on the field. We envisioned
holding the conference somewhere in the Mediterranean basin
that, two millenia ago, generated the literatures and practices that
we study, and consequently accepted with gratitude the offer
of the Center for the Study of Christianity in the Hebrew Uni-
versity of Jerusalem to host and support the conference.
Opening the conference with a lecture on ‘Patristic Worlds’,
Susan Ashbrook Harvey conjured up an extraordinarily sensuous
picture of the diverse, pluralistic – often competing and con-
fused – worlds which formed the context for the emergence
of the multifaceted aspects of early Christian life and thought.
As she vividly put it, anticipating much of what was to char-
acterise the conference, ‘Twenty-first century patristic scholar-
ship takes as its hallmark to approach antiquity as a multiplicity
of worlds, an entire prism split open’.
The papers published here are only a selection of those pre-
sented at the conference. We shall not attempt a synthetic over-
view of all the papers, but we would like to offer a few remarks
on the two foci of the conference. First, the study of Patristics
in different regions of the globe. Six scholars were invited to
address the state of Patristics in their particular region: Europe,
North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Sev-
eral other presenters described the situation in particular coun-
tries (such as Poland) or settings (such as theological education).
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