Never the twain shall meet?

Latins and greeks learning from each other in byzantium

Denis Searby, editor

De Gruyter

This volume explores the theme of Latin and Greek mutual learning, intellectual and cultural interchange in the final age of Byzantium (1261-1453), challenging received conceptions of East and West as clearly delineated ideological categories. The reception of Thomas Aquinas and Western scholasticism receives emphasis, but also other forms of philosophical and theological frames of reference that have had lasting repercussions.

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Spirit and Salvation

A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic Wolrd

Volume 4

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, author

Eerdmans Publishing Company

This fourth volume in Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen's ambitious five- volume systematic theology develops a constructive Christian pneumatology and soteriology in dialogue with the diverse global Christian tradition and with other major living faiths — Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.

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Seeing God

The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

Hans Boersma, author

Eerdmans Publishing Company

When we see God, are we looking with our physical eyes or with the mind’s eye? Both, says Hans Boersma in this sacramental and historical treatment of the beatific vision. Focusing on “vision” as a living metaphor, Boersma shows how the vision of God is accessible already today.

Seeing God is a historical study, but it also includes a dogmatic articulation of key characteristics that contribute to our understanding of the beatific vision. Theologians, philosophers, and literary authors have long maintained that the invisible God becomes visible to us. Boersma shows how God trains us to see his character by transforming our eyes and minds, highlighting continuity from this world to the next. Christ-centered, sacramental, and ecumenical in character, Seeing God presents life as a pilgrimage to see the face of God in the hereafter.

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La Résurrection et l'Exaltation du Christ dans la littérature de l'ére patristique

Raymond Winling, author

Les Editions du Cerf

Depuis le milieu du XXe siècle se sont déployés des efforts divers pour redonner à la Résurrection du Christ, quelque peu marginalisée depuis la fin du Moyen Âge, la place centrale qui lui revient. Il manquait une étude d'ensemble sur la Résurrection dans la littérature patristique. Raymond Winling montre comment la Résurrection et l'Exaltation du Christ constituent un centre de perspective à partir duquel s'éclaire tout le mystère chrétien et vers lequel convergent les autres données de la foi. Pour les Pères, la Résurrection du Christ est principe d'organisation du temps liturgique, aussi bien pour l'année liturgique que pour la semaine chrétienne (chap. I). La contestation de la part des non-chrétiens a forcé les Pères à un effort d'apologétique de grande envergure pour établir le fait de la Résurrection (chap. II). Soucieux de rendre compte de leur foi, les Pères ont cherché à dire ce que signifie la Résurrection pour le Christ lui-même (chap. III), à mettre en relief la notion d'Exaltation liée à celles de l'intronisation et de l'envoi de l'Esprit et à souligner la Seigneurie universelle du Christ ressuscité et sa présence agissante parmi les siens (chap. IV). En plus de la dimension christologique, les Pères ont étudié la portée de la Résurrection-Exaltation pour le salut, les sacrements et l'ensemble de la vie chrétienne.

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Qumran Cave IV.

Discoveries in the Judean Desert IX.

Palaeo-Hebrew and Greek Biblical Manuscripts

Patrick W. Skehan - Eugene Ulrich - Judith E. Sanderson, authors

This volume inaugurates the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from the main collection discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It contains ten biblical manuscripts from Genesis to Deuteronomy and Job. Six are written in the ancient Palaeo-Hebrew script and four are in Greek. There are also five hitherto unknown compositions. The Hebrew texts antedate by a millennium what had previously been the earliest surviving biblical codices in the original language, and they document the pluriform nature of the ancient biblical textual tradition before the text became standardized. The most extensive and significant manuscript, 4QpaleoExodm, exhibits the expanded textual tradition that formed the basis for the Samaritan Pentateuch and illumines the historical and theological relationship between the Jews and the Samaritans. Fragments of an unidentified Greek text mention Moses, Pharaoh, and Egypt, suggesting some development of the Exodus theme, and further witnessing to the rich religious literature to which Rabbinic Judaism and nascent Christianity were heirs. An index of all the biblical manuscripts from Qumran Cave 4 and their distribution in other Discoveries in the Judaean Desert volumes is provided, and there are also forty pages of plates from the manuscripts.

The moral psychology of Clement of Alexandria

Mosaic Philosophy

Kathleen Gibbons, author

Routledge

In The Moral Psychology of Clement of Alexandria, Kathleen Gibbons proposes a new approach to Clement’s moral philosophy and explores how his construction of Christianity’s relationship with Jewishness informed, and was informed by, his philosophical project. As one of the earliest Christian philosophers, Clement’s work has alternatively been treated as important for understanding the history of relations between Christianity and Judaism and between Christianity and pagan philosophy. This study argues that an adequate examination of his significance for the one requires an adequate examination of his significance for the other.

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