Collected essays by an eminent patristic scholar contextualizing some of her recent books such as Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture and God's Presence: A Contemporary Recapitulation of Early Christianity: Acknowledgments; Introduction (with pertinent remarks on shifts in patristic studies and her commitment to patristics as a sub-discipline of theology); A. From Exegesis to Hermeneutics: I. Adam and Anthropos: a study of the interaction of science and the Bible in two anthropological treatises of the fourth century; II. John Chrysostom on first and second Corinthians; III. Allegory and atonement; IV. The rhetorical schools and their influence on patristic exegesis; V. The fourth century reaction against allegory; VI. Allegory and the ethics of reading; VII.
From suspicion and sociology to spirituality: on method, hermeneutics and appropriation with respect to patristic material; VIII. The Apostolic Constitutions: a methodological case-study; IX. On episkopos and presbyteros; X. Ministerial forms and functions in the Church communities of the Greek Fathers; XI. Exegetical method and scriptural proof: the Bible in doctrinal debate; XII.Proverbs 8 in interpretation (2): wisdom personified; B. From Doctrine to Theology: XIII. Paideia and the myth of static dogma; XIV.
The Confessions of St Augustine: What is the genre of this work?; XV. Did Epiphanius know what he meant by heresy? XVI. Creatio ex nihilo: a context for the emergence of the Christian doctrine of creation; XVII. Naked or clothed? Eschatology and the doctrine of creation; XVIII. Creation and human being: the forging of a distinct Christian discourse; XIX. Theotokos: Mary and the pattern of fall and redemption in the theology of Cyril of Alexandria; XX. The God of the Greeks and the nature of religious language. Index.
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