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Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors

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Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors

By: Morwenna Ludlow

Ancient authors commonly compared writing with painting. The sculpting of the soul was also a common philosophical theme. Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors takes its starting-point from such figures to recover a sense of ancient authorship as craft. The ancient concept of craft (ars, techne) spans 'high' or 'fine' art and practical or applied arts. It unites the beautiful and the useful. It includes both skills or practices (like medicine and music) and productive arts like painting, sculpting and the composition of texts. By using craft as a guiding concept for understanding fourth Christian authorship, this book recovers a sense of them engaged in a shared practice which is both beautiful and theologically useful, which shapes souls but which is also engaged in the production of texts. It focuses on Greek writers, especially the Cappadocians (Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nysa) and John Chrysostom, all of whom were trained in rhetoric. Through a detailed examination of their use of two particular literary techniques—ekphrasis and prosōpopoeia—it shows how they adapt and experiment with them, in order to make theological arguments and in order to evoke a response from their readership.

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0192588656

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Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern

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Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern

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The fourth-century Christian thinker, Gregory of Nyssa, has been the subject of a huge variety of interpretations over the past fifty years. Morwenna Ludlow analyses these recent readings, and asks: What do they reveal about modern and postmodern interpretations of the Christian past? What do they say about the nature of Gregory's writing?

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0199280762

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The Early Church

The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church

By: Morwenna Ludlow

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The Early Church

The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church

By: Morwenna Ludlow

How did the early Christians manage to establish a religion and institution which, despite persecution, flourished and grew? How did their initial experience of being a despised minority in the Roman Empire shape their sense of privileged identity and uniqueness? And how was it that - at least at the outset - the first believers were able to exist alongside the same shared traditions, rituals and beliefs of the Jews, despite the Jewish rejection of Jesus as Messiah?The Christian community was born out of paradox: its faith in a man who was also the 'anointed one' (or Christ) of God; and its growth and development often echoed those complex and contradictory origins. Morwenna Ludlow discusses the fragile context as well as the emerging core beliefs of the early Church (including divine creation, salvation, eschatology, the humanity and divinity of Christ and the inter-relationships of the Trinity) between 50-600 CE. She also examines the process of Christian self-definition in response to groups on the edge of the Church, such as Gnostics, Marcionites, Montanists and Manichaeans, as well as in relation to Judaism. Bringing to vivid life the remarkable history of the early Church, in all its conflict and struggle, the author shows why such a successful faith was able to rise out of such improbable and unpromising beginnings.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857735594

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Universal Salvation

Eschatology in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner

By: Morwenna Ludlow

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Universal Salvation

Eschatology in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner

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For nearly two thousand years Paul's suggestion at the end of 1 Corinthians 15 that God will be 'all in all' has appealed to those who hold a 'wider hope' that eventually no person will be lost from God's love. Clearly, such hope for universal salvation is at variance with most Christian tradition, which has emphasized the possibility, or certainty, of eternal hell. However, a minority of Christian thinkers have advocated the idea and it has provoked much debate in the course of the twentieth century. Responding to this interest, Morwenna Ludlow compares and assesses the arguments for universal salvation by Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner - two influential theologians from very different eras who are less well known for their eschatological views. In this book Dr Ludlow gives an assessment of early Christian eschatology and its effect on modern theology by examining some fundamental questions. Does universal salvation constitute a 'second tradition' of eschatology and how has that tradition developed? What can we learn from Patristic writers such as Gregory of Nyssa? How does one approach Christian eschatology in a modern context?

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Universal Salvation

Eschatology in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner

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Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern

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The Early Church

The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church

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Book's by Morwenna Ludlow

Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors

Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors

Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern

Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern

The Early Church

The Early Church

Universal Salvation

Universal Salvation

Universal Salvation

Universal Salvation

Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern

Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern

The Early Church

The Early Church

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