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Books in the Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics series

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  • by Aho Shemunkasho
    £55.49

    This book presents the significance of healing theology and the ways in whichthe healing of man--spiritually, mentally and corporally--is highly valued byEphrem the Syrian.

  • - The Significance of Body and Community
    by Jill Gather
    £116.49

    Christian authors of the Greek- as well as the Syriac-speaking world placed the heart at the center of a mystical theology that viewed the body as a God-given instrument of divine ascent and the relational setting of Christian existence as an important means of experiencing God's abiding inner presence.

  • - Second Revised Edition
    by Jan-Eric Steppa
    £99.49

    This book deals with the works of the anti-Chalcedonian hagiographer, John Rufus, and traces the basic motives behind the opposition against the council of Chalcedon in the fifth century through an attempt to reconstruct a specific anti-Chalcedonian culture.

  • - Christ's Descent to the Dead in the Theology of Saint Ephrem the Syrian
    by Thomas Buchan
    £100.99

    Buchan's work is an examination of the theological use of the doctrine of Christ's descent to the dead in the works of Saint Ephrem the Syrian (ca.

  • by Lee Sytsma
    £132.99

    An exploration of paradoxical beliefs in the writings of Origen of Alexandria.

  • - A Refutation of John Hick's Use of Irenaeus
    by David Hionides
    £145.99

    This book serves to correct the now accepted understanding of Irenaeus's theodicy. This assumption of Hick's theodicy as legitimately "Irenaean" remains due the gulf between Irenaean scholarship and discussion of the problem of evil.

  • - Lactantius and the Doctrine of Providence
    by Anthony Coleman
    £110.49

    This book examines the doctrine of providence as it appears in the works of the North African Latin apologist, L. Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius.

  • - Commentary on Daniel and 'Chronicon'
    by T. Schmidt
    £87.99

    This volume contains an English translation and introduction to Hippolytus of Rome's Commentary on Daniel and his Chronicon. Both works are the first writings of their kind. The commentary is the earliest extant Christian commentary on a book of the Bible and the Chronicon is the first extant Christian historical work.

  • - Second Century Incarnational Christology and Early Catholic Christianity
    by Michael Svigel
    £89.49

    This book proposes a model for explaining unity and diversity in early Christianity that centers about a clear confessional identity, allowing both extreme expressions of diversity of texts and traditions while explaining the exclusion of teachers, texts, and traditions that deviated from the confessional norm.

  • - An Exegetico-theological Study on the Homilies of Jacob of Serugh on the Feasts of Our Lord
    by Thomas Kollamparampil
    £44.49 - 112.99

    Jacob of Serugh's vision of `Salvation in Christ', in its exegetical, theological, catechetical, liturgical and pastoral aspects, is reviewed in this monograph. This treatise gathers up Jacob's typological and symbolic thought-patterns, in his own language, categories, terminologies, and imageries.

  • by Robert Williams
    £100.99

    Early lists of bishops, identified by Walter Bauer as "literary propaganda," mark critical points in the development of the doctrine of the apostolic succession of bishops. Ecclesiastical politics in each case reflects the threat to the bishop's authority and clarifies the meaning of apostolic succession in the Church's development.

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