Nova Doctrina Vetusque

Essays on Early Christianity in Honor of Fredric W. Schlatter, S.J. Edited by Douglas Kries and Catherine Brown Tkacz.

This collection of sixteen essays explores early Christianity by examining its architecture, its scriptures, and the writings of its eminent historians, apologists, monastic leaders, and theologians. Contents: Catherine Brown Tkacz / Douglas Kries: Introduction - W. H. C. Frend: From Confessional Propaganda to International Scholarship: The Archaeology of Early Christianity - Robert F. Taft, S.J.: One Bread, One Body: Ritual Symbols of Ecclesial Communion in the Patristic Period - Daniel J. Nodes: Origen of Alexandria Among the Renaissance Humanists and their Twentieth Century Historians - Charles Kannengiesser: Lady Wisdom's Final Call: The Patristic Recovery of Proverbs 8 - Andrew J. Carriker: Seven Unidentified Sources in Eusebius' Historia Ecclesiastica - Catherine Brown Tkacz: Quid Facit Cum Psalterio Horatius? Seeking Classical Allusions in the Vulgate - Edward A. Synan: The Vulgarity of the Vulgate - Anne P. Carriker: Augustine's Frankness in his Dispute with Jerome over the Interpretation of Galatians 2:11-14 - Douglas Kries: Virgil, Daniel, and Augustine's Dialogic Pedagogy in De Magistro - Roland J. Teske, S.J.: The Definition of Sacrifice in the De Civitate Dei - Katherin A. Rogers: Equal Before God: Augustine on the Nature and Role of Women - Mary Forman, O.S.B.: Desert Ammas: Midwives of Wisdom - W. Eugene Kleinbauer: Christian or Secular? The Tetraconch in the So-Called Library of Hadrian at Athens - William Edmund Fahey: History, Community, and Suffering in Victor of Vita - Joseph W. Day: Toward a Pragmatics of Archaic and Paleochristian Greek Inscriptions - Anthony P. Via, S.J.: Eastern Monasticism in South Italy in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries - Bibliography of the Work of Frederic W. Schlatter, S.J. VIII,291 Seiten mit vier Tafeln, gebunden (American University Studies. Series VII: Theology and Religion; vol. 207/Peter Lang Verlag 1999) Mängelexemplar/near mint