
Reading the Church Fathers
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 28. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-567-60762-1 (ISBN)
Description
This title is a unique collection of essays surrounding modern hermeneutic approaches to early Christian theological texts. 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?; and, What can modern thinkers contribute to our reading of the Fathers?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
351 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-567-60762-1 (9780567607621)
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Morwenna Ludlow | Scot Douglass
Reading the Church Fathers
E-Book
04/2011
1st Edition
T.& T.Clark Ltd
€39.99
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Morwenna Ludlow | Scot Douglass
Reading the Church Fathers
E-Book
04/2011
1st Edition
T.& T.Clark Ltd
€39.99
Available for download
Persons
Morwenna Ludlow is Lecturer in Patristics at the University of Exetery, UK. Scot Douglass is Associate Professor in the Herbst Program of Humanities for Engineers at University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
Content
Foreword; I. Reading postmodern readings of the Fathers:; Johannes Zachhuber: Jean-Luc Marion's reading of the Pseudo-Dionysius; David Newheiser: Time and the responsibilities of reading: revisiting Derrida and Dionysius; Virginia Burrus: Seeing God in bodies: Augustine's Postmodern insight; II. Reading postmodern thinkers in parallel with reading the fathers:; Tamsin Jones: Emmanuel Levinas and Gregory of Nyssa on Reading, Desire and Subjectivity; Scot Douglass: The combinatory detour: the prefix sun- in Gregory of Nyssa's Production of Theological Knowledge.; III Reading the Fathers reading themselves:; Matthieu Cassin: Text and Context: on the importance of a scholarly reading (une lecture savante).; Morwenna Ludlow: Anatomy: investigating the body of texts in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa. Afterword.