Reading the Church Fathers
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Reading the Church Fathers

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Reading the Church Fathers

About this book

Reading the corpus of texts written by the Fathers of the Church has always been a core area in Christian theology. However, scholars and academics are by no means united in the question how these important but difficult authors should be read and interpreted. Many of them are divided by implicit (but often unquestioned) assumptions about the best way to approach the texts or by underlying hermeneutical questions about the norms, limits and opportunities of reading Ancient Christian writers. This book will raise profound hermeneutical questions surrounding the reading of the Fathers with greater clarity than it has been done before. The contributors to this volume are theologians and historians who have used contemporary post-modern approaches to illuminate the Ancien corpus of texts. The chapters discuss issues such as What makes a 'good' reading of a church Father? What constitutes a 'responsible' reading? Is the reading of the Fathers limited to a specialist audience? What can modern thinkers contribute to our reading of the Fathers?

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Information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780567607621
eBook ISBN
9780567072689
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Theology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Participants in the Conversation
  8. Foreword
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Chapter 1 Jean-Luc Marion’s Reading of Dionysius the Areopagite: Hermeneutics and Reception History Johannes Zachhuber
  11. Chapter 2 Time and the Responsibilities of Reading: Revisiting Derrida and Dionysius David Newheiser
  12. Chapter 3 Seeing God in Bodies: Wolfson, Rosenzweig, Augustine Virginia Burrus
  13. Chapter 4 Emmanuel Levinas and Gregory of Nyssaon Reading, Desire and Subjectivity Tamsin Jones
  14. Chapter 5 The Combinatory Detour: The Prefix Sun- in Gregory of Nyssa’s Production of Theological Knowledge Scot Douglass
  15. Chapter 6 Text and Context: The Importance of Scholarly Reading. Gregory of Nyssa, CONTRA EUNOMIUM1 Matthieu Cassin
  16. Chapter 7 Anatomy: Investigating the Body of Texts in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa Morwenna Ludlow
  17. Afterword: Conversations about Reading
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index