Sprawozdanie ze spotkania Sekcji Patrystycznej zatytułowanego "Świat stworzony w literaturze wczesnochrześcijańskiej", które odbyło się w Tarnowie w dniach 17-20.09.2023.
L’un des événements majeurs de l’année 2018 dans le domaine des sciences humaines et religieuses fut sans conteste la publication du tome IV inédit, et sans doute inachevé, de l’Histoire de la ...sexualité de Michel Foucault consacré au rapport des Pères de l’Église à la sexualité, Les Aveux de la chair. Cette importante publication fut précédée d’un colloque, « Foucault, les Pères et le sexe », qui se tint les 1er et 2 février 2018 et qui fut organisé conjointement par la Bibliothèque nationale...
In the 20th century, research on Christian source texts was again undertaken, thanks to which essential ecclesiological and sacramentological elements were discovered. Bernhard Poschmann (1878–1955), ...Karl Rahner (1904–1984), Herbert Vorgrimler (1929–2014) and Reinhard Meßner (1960) are considered to be the most influential researchers of penance and confession of those times. Throughout the years, between the development of the patristic and scholastic thoughts, they discerned many significant changes. The connection between the Church and the excommunicated, the possibility of second penance in one’s life as well as a spiritual nature of penance and of the entire process of reconciliation were particularly underscored in patristics. In the further years of Christianity, during the Celtic evangelization mission in Europe, the influence of monastic life played a central role in overcoming human weakness. In scholasticism, in turn, the focus was placed rather on the significance of sin’s essence and on the process of forgiveness. The reality and forgiveness of sin during confession were expressed through the concepts of matter and form. The specified accents of the 20th century theological-historical research, in relation to understanding of penance and confession throughout the years between patristics and scholasticism, indicate a changing approach to understanding of sacramental forgiveness. With time, a spiritual nature of this sacrament was more and more underlined, which became particularly observable in the terminological conceptual shift from penance to confession.
Eusebio de Cesarea es el creador de un género nuevo en la literatura cristiana, la historia eclesiástica, que será muy imitado en la Antigüedad, en Bizancio y en la Edad Media occidental. Este tipo ...de historiografía, que sigue y adapta los modelos literarios griegos, será el más adecuada para dar testimonio de la concepción teológica cristiana y de las nuevas circunstancias históricas posteriores a Constantino. La universalidad del Imperio romano es identificada con la Iglesia, el verdadero Reino de Dios, y por ello la Historia eclesiástica será una historia universal, en el tiempo y en el espacio.
In the monograph under review, a revised version of a dissertation submitted at the University of Konstanz in 2019, Polcar sets out to provide a full-scale commentary on a single letter of Jerome’s ...correspondence such as will be familiar to those who have read the work of Scourfield, Adkin, and Cain. The letter under investigation, epistula 79, is addressed to the newly widowed Salvina, containing both consolation for the loss of her husband, Nebridius, and exhortation to chaste widowhood. After a brief introduction to Jerome and the letter’s place in the ancient epistolographic tradition (pp. 11–19) and a survey of the edition and the manuscripts consulted (21–24), there follows a Latin text with a facing translation (pp. 24–45).
This review article examines and summarizes the key ideas and contributions of Nikolaos Loudovikos' book Analogical Identities: The Creation of the Christian Self – Beyond Spirituality and Mysticism ...in the Patristic Era. The book offers a reimagining of Christian anthropology and the understanding of the self by critiquing what the author sees as lingering Neoplatonic influences and dualistic notions of ‘spirituality’ or ‘mysticism’. Loudovikos traces the development of problematic conceptions of the will, introspection and power in influential thinkers like Augustine, Origen and Descartes. He then provides an alternative trajectory drawing on Greek patristic authors like Maximus the Confessor, Symeon the New Theologian and Gregory Palamas. Loudovikos argues that their thinking provides resources for overcoming problematic past legacies by articulating a view of the self, grounded not in an immaterial soul, but in dialogical, embodied fulfilment through grace and participation in Christ. Central is Maximus' theology of the will, which reframes it not as something to be transcended but as expressing the universal human desire for God. Loudovikos synthesizes these currents in proposing the concept of ‘analogical identity’ to describe the transformed Christian self. The book represents a ground‐breaking contribution that creatively retrieves the diverse patristic tradition(s) to overcome lingering problems in theological anthropology and provides a holistic model of human personhood.
El presente artículo pretende dar respuesta a los siguientes interrogantes: ¿quién fue el padre copto-ortodoxo Matta Al-Miskīn (1919-2006)? ¿Cuáles fueron sus teorías e ideas más importantes? Con el ...objetivo de ofrecer una respuesta detallada a estas preguntas y presentar de forma sucinta a quien se considera —con razón— uno de los máximos representantes de la teología copto-ortodoxa del siglo XX y del cristianismo árabe de hoy, la estructura propuesta tiene dos partes principales, además de una introducción y algunas observaciones finales. En primer lugar, se realiza un breve recuento de su vida y una presentación general de sus obras. En segundo lugar, se propone una síntesis de su pensamiento espiritual, monástico-místico, bíblico, patrístico y dogmático-teológico.
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This paper introduces the Sahidic Coptic fragments of Basil of Caesarea's Asceticon Magnum (CPG 2875). The first part of the article is devoted to the study of a Sahidic fragment of the ...Prooemium to Basil's Long Rules. The author demonstrates that the Sahidic text did not serve as a basis for the Arabic translation of the Prooemium, as some scholars assumed in the past. In the second part, a newly identified fragment of the Short Rules is presented.
This paper is limited to highlight a selection of exegetical comments through which, from the 6th century until the 12th, many Latin Church Fathers and theologians deciphered the eastern shut door of ...the temple (porta clausa) revealed by Yahweh to Ezekiel in a prophetic vision. This short study's select set of comments is complemented by a plentiful series of similar comments stated by other Greek-Eastern Church Fathers from the Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, the last series not discussed here. This considerable corpus of Greek-Eastern and Latin exegeses constitutes a solid centuries-old dogmatic tradition, according to which this Ezekiel's porta clausa is unanimously interpreted by all those Christian authors as a double complementary Mariological and Christological metaphor.
In a joint session at the 2022 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Patristic Studies and the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Mona Tokarek LaFosse assembled a panel of reviewers to engage ...with the texts presented in the second volume of New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures (Eerdmans, 2020). This article is a response to those papers by Tony Burke, the editor of the volume. The response addresses a number of themes raised by the reviewers, including the selection and arrangement of the texts, their troubling depictions of race and gender, the role of orality in their creation, and how the texts can be used in the classroom.
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