Exegesis and Theology in Early Christianity

Frances Young

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781138109025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351219167
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: World History

This collection of articles first brings together a number of working papers which were significant in the development of Frances Young's understanding of patristic exegesis, studies not included in her ground-breaking book, Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture (1997), though paving the way for that work. Then comes a selection of papers on theology, church order and methodology, the whole collection constantly returning to themes such as the fundamental connection between theology and exegesis, the significant role of reflection on language, metaphor and symbol, and the creative interaction of early Christianity with its cultural and intellectual environment. These studies demonstrate the author's scholarly approach to patristic material, whereby careful attention is paid to actual texts from the past; but they also reveal the groundwork for her own theological explorations in the very different intellectual environment of the present.

INDEX

Abraham: XIX 68

Adam: I 24; III 112; XIX 62–4, 66–8

Address to young men on how they might profit from pagan literature: IV 188

Adrianos: V 121–2

aesthetics: I 10; IV 187

Albinus: XX 50, 56, 61

Alexandrian: xii; I 30; IV 189; V 120, 123; VII 424; XI 292–3, 295, 297, 303; XIV 5; XX 56

allegory: II 350; III 107, 111; VI 103, 110–12, 116–17; IV 182–3, 193; V 120, 122–3; VII 432; XI 291–2, 297, 299, 303; XII 113; XIII 267, 270; XIV 6, 11, 15; XVIII 346; XIX 60; XX 54, 70

anagnōsis: IV 187

anagōgē: XIII 271

anakephalaiōsis: XIX 61, 62

anamnēsis: X 173

angels: I 7, 23

animal: I 20

anthropology: xi; I 11, 25, 29; XVII 2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 17, 19; XVIII 335–6, 343, 347; XIX 60, 62, 64

anthropomorphism: XX 54–5, 65, 74

Anthrōpotokos: XIX 55

Antiochene: xii; II 350; IV 184, 189–90, 195–6; V 120–21, 123–4; VI 113, 115–16; XI 292–3, 297–8, 303; XIII 279; XIX 65

apatheia: I 20; XVII 3

aphthartos: XIX 60

Apollinari[u]s: I 17, 18, 30

apologetic: I 18; XIV 4; XVI 142; XX 45, 54

apologists: XX 48

apophatic: xii; XX 48, 51, 53, 55, 58–9, 62, 64

Apostolic Constitutions: VIII 105, 107, 109, 114; X ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I Adam and Anthropos: a study of the interaction of science and the bible in two anthropological treatises of the fourth century
• II John Chrysostom on first and second corinthians
• III Allegory and atonement
• IV The rhetorical schools and their influence on patristic exegesis
• V The fourth century reaction against allegory
• VI Allegory and the ethics of reading
• VII From suspicion and sociology to spirituality: on method, hermeneutics and appropriation with respect to patristic material1
• VIII The Apostolic Constitutions: a methodological case-study
• IX On episcopos and presbyteros
• X Ministerial forms and functions in the Church communities of the Greek Fathers
• XI Exegetical method and scriptural proof the bible in doctrinal debate
• XII Proverbs 8 in interpretation (2): wisdom personified
• XIII Paideia and the myth of static dogma
• XIV The Confessions of St Augustine: What is the genre of this work? (The 1998 St Augustine Lecture)
• XV Did Epiphanius know what he meant by heresy?
• XVI Creatio ex nihilo: a context for the emergence of the Christian doctrine of creation
• XVII Naked or clothed? Eschatology and the doctrine of creation
• XVIII Creation and human being: the forging of a distinct Christian discourse
• XIX Theotokos: Mary and the pattern of fall and redemption in the theology of Cyril of Alexandria
• XX The God of the Greeks and the nature of religious language
• Index