Doctrine and Debate in the East Christian World, 300-1500

Contents: Introduction; Supplementary bibliography; Part 1 The Formative Period: The making of a heretic: the Life of Origen in Epiphanius Panarion 64, J. Rebecca Lyman; Manichaeans and public disputation in late antiquity, Richard Lim; The conversations with the Syrian Orthodox under Justinian (532), Sebastian Brock; Anti-Jewish polemic and the emergence of Islam, V. Deroche. Part 2 The Encounter with Islam: Byzantine accounts of Islam, Wolfgang Eichner; Disputes with Muslims in Syriac Christian texts: from Patriarch John (d.648) to Bar Hebraeus (d.1286), Sidney H. Griffith; The signs of prophecy: the emergence and early development of a theme in Arabic theological literature, Sarah Stroumsa; Reopening the Muslim-Christian dialogue of the 13th-14th centuries: critical reflections on Ibn Taymiyyah's response to Christianity, Nancy N. Roberts. Part 3 Iconoclasm: A Dark-Age crisis: aspects of the Iconoclastic controversy, Peter Brown; Texts as weapons: polemic in the Byzantine dark ages, Averil Cameron. Part 4 Anti-Latin Texts: Byzantine perceptions of Latin religious 'errors', Tia M. Kolbaba. Part 5 The Tools of Argument: Dyophysite florilegia of the 5th and 6th centuries CE, Marcel Richard; The saint, the scholar and the astrologer: a study of hagiographical themes in some 'question and answer' collections of the 5th-7th centuries CE, Gilbert Dagron; The first Christian Summa Theologiae in Arabic: Christian Kalam in 9th-century Palestine, Sidney H. Griffith; Communal identity and the systematisation of knowledge in the Syriac 'cause of all causes', G.J. Reinink; Abdallah ibn al-Fadl's exposition of the Orthodox faith, Ramy Wannous; Index.