Bücher der Reihe Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity

This volume results from the international research project "The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity (325-c.600)". It deals with the phenomenon of clerical exile in late antiquity (4th to 6th centuries).

Progress is a structural and systematic concept in the thought of Origen of Alexandria, which represents one of the most advanced syntheses of the Christian reading of the Old and the New Testaments¿ legacy and the classical paideia, as well as a rational critique towards every kind of static objectification of the religious. Origen¿s legacy was capable of radiating its influence through Western theology and philosophy, thus shaping its idea of theological, moral, intellectual, social and political progress. The volume follows the intellectual dynamism generated by the reception of Origen¿s thought through seventeen articles, which span through the centuries, from the analysis of Origen¿s thought to its reception history in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Modern Age, up until the 20th century.

Die Studie beschreibt Aushandlungsprozesse christlicher Identitat im proto-orthodoxen Martyriumsdiskurs. Sie zeigt, wie Fragen von Autoritat, die Vorstellung von Martyrern als Opfern, die Affirmation der Bezeichnung Christiani oder der blutig bezeugte Wahrheitsanspruch gegenuber innerchristlichen Gegnern im Martyriumsdiskurs verhandelt wurden.

What is a human being according to Augustine of Hippo? The volume discusses anthropological themes in Augustine's corpus of writings. The reader will find articles on a wide spectrum of Augustine's anthropological ideas. Some contributions focus on specific texts. Others on specific theological or philosophical aspects of Augustine's anthropology.

Der Band versammelt 18 ausgewahlte Aufsatze Joerg Ulrichs. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf der fur die Patristik zentralen Epoche des 4./5. Jahrhunderts. Weitere Themenschwerpunkte sind die fruhchristlichen Apologeten und ihr historisches Umfeld sowie die Kirchen- und Theologiegeschichte des abendlandischen 12. Jahrhunderts.

The author examines early Christian rhetorical language and its broader religious and cultural contexts. The tension of the dual subjectivity emerging in the asceticism of the heart and the ideological and material aspects of Christian imperialism in the context of the Holy Land and Constantinople takes the reader into new intellectual territory.

The Historia ecclesiastica of Eusebius took part in the cultural negotiations that attended the turn to a post-Constantinian Christianity. This book pinpoints the more or less fragmented concepts of history and world implied in Historia ecclesiastica and investigates what narrative(s) on the history of Christianity are contained in the work.

This book investigates the interplay between prayer and identity formation and the socializing character of Christian prayer: how prayer established a relationship between the individual and God; how other social relations were reinforced by prayer; and how the individual Christian was connected to his/her own self in prayer.

The articles explore individual religious transformation in Antiquity, with a focus on initiation and conversion and their definitions, content and characteristics. They investigate different facets of these phenomena in a wide range of religions in their own context and from new theoretical and empirical perspectives.

For it is Written

Contextualising Early Christian Martyrdom

This volume explores how forced movement and exile of clerics developed over time and ultimately came to shape interactions between the late-antique Roman Empire, the Byzantine, post-Roman, and early medieval worlds. It investigates the politics and legal mechanics of ecclesiastical exile, the locations associated with life in exile, both in literary sources and in material culture, as well as the multitude of strategies which ancient and early medieval authors, and the exiles themselves, employed to create historical narratives of banishment. The chapters are revised versions of papers given at international conferences held at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, the German Historical Institute London, and the University of Alcalá in 2016 and 2017.

Deeming various linguistic, cognitive and theological aspects of the theory of knowledge, Origen and the Cappadocian fathers took advantage of the grammatical, logical and cognitive theories of the Hellenic scholars. The book surveys the milestones of the patristic epistemological discourse in the exegetical, theological and philosophical contexts.