En el presente artículo se estudian las fuentes patrísticas del Rescriptum de Tuseredo (siglo VIII), que presentan algunos problemas: en algunos casos no está clara la procedencia de dichas fuentes; ...en otros, la fuente original fue objeto de intervenciones deliberadas por parte del autor. Por otra parte, se identifica como testimonio seguro de Fortleben de Tuseredo el anónimo tratado Serpens ille veternosus, confirmando así una propuesta aducida en su momento por Madoz. El asunto da pie a proponer una datación más precisa para el Serpens ille veternosus, discutir sus posibles autorías y analizar el contexto en el que éste pudo haber sido escrito.
The Shepherd of Hermas was one of the most widely circulated early Christian texts. Contemporary estimations of the text, however, are far from praiseworthy, and many regard the Shepherd to be so ...imprecise and poorly written as to lend itself to heterodox interpretation, especially in regard to its Christology and the infamous parable of “The Servant and the Vineyard.” This essay will argue that this negative evaluation of the Shepherd is misguided, and that not only does this specific parable avoid heterodox implications, but that it displays a thoroughly biblical understanding of Christ as the servant-messiah sent into the world by the Father to redeem the world, as witnessed by the apostolic preaching and the authors of the New Testament. This essay will demonstrate that the Shepherd presents the reader with a coherent narrative with which to understand the basic themes of the Christ event by weaving together a creative and original parable rooted firmly in the scriptural and interpretive tradition of both the Old and New Testaments.
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.
The present study aims to outline the epistemological and logical principles and ground–rules developed during Trinitarian debates by Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa: ones which, for the most ...part, function to define what counts as applicable to and possible for theological discourse when speaking about God. These principles not only underlie Cappadocian Trinitarian theology, but also can be seen as furnishing a key to the proper understanding and interpretation of the Conciliar Trinitarian account, which to a considerable extent was formulated on the basis of and in terms indebted to Cappadocian teaching. As will be argued here, the principles show very clearly the problems associated with addressing God in terms of “essence”—issues that in fact underlie most of the difficulties and incoherences presented by Trinitarian discourse as such.
Wśród różnorodnych form tekstów naukowych na uwagę zasługują opracowania leksykograficzne i encyklopedyczne oraz zamieszczane na ich łamach hasła i artykuły. Tworzone są przez badaczy z dużym ...doświadczeniem naukowym. Mają oni swój udział w encyklopediach ogólnych i specjalnych, słownikach terminologicznych, językowych, w tym przekładowych, leksykonach itd. Także patrolodzy mają dorobek w zakresie wydawnictw informacyjnych. Przykładem jest ks. Wincenty Myszor, przez lata związany z Akademią Teologii Katolickiej w Warszawie i Wydziałem Teologicznym Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach. W trakcie kariery naukowej zainicjował lub współtworzył siedemnaście encyklopedii, słowników i leksykonów. Na podstawie analizy źródeł oraz materiałów przechowywanych w Archiwum Archidiecezjalnym w Katowicach scharakteryzowano tę twórczość patrologa, który od lat siedemdziesiątych XX w. do XXI w. współpracował z wybitnymi przedstawicielami polskiej i niemieckiej patrologii, koptologii, filologii klasycznej, teologii i filozofii. Pozostawił w redagowanych przez nich wydawnictwach hasła i artykuły dotyczące zagadnień bliskich jego zainteresowaniom badawczym. Dał się również poznać jako autor i współautor do dziś użytkowanych słowników przekładowych języka koptyjskiego. Tego rodzaju dokonania świadczą o randze naukowca, który takim rodzajem aktywności daje trwałe świadectwo wiedzy i kompetencji badawczych.
The article offers a brief review of the book “Ambrose of Milan and Aurelius Augustine about soul” by E.P. Aristova, and an interpretation of the significance of this work for the problems of science ...development and the prospects of European culture. The doctrines on the soul reconstructed by E.P. Aristova set the framework for possible heuristics of thinking about a person in general and about subjectivity in various areas of the socio-cultural process, including the field of scientific, technical and socio-economic policy. The author shows that if the understanding of man as the image of God and, accordingly, as the creator was decisive for the philosophical and scientific thought of early modern period, then the teachings of Ambrose of Milan and Aurelius Augustine reveal the image of a sinner, who is guilty of the world fall and therefore called upon with the help of God to restore the destroyed original order. The article suggests replacing the idea of sin with the idea of responsibility for making decisions with large-scale consequences, while at the same time pointing to the need for existential foundation of the principle of responsibility ‒ the idea of the existential meaning of the actions of an individual, changing the world in a positive or negative direction (good ‒ evil, corruption ‒ chaos, beauty ‒ ugliness). The author claims that the idea of the restoration of the original order corresponds with epistemological realism ‒ as opposed to the idea of voluntaristic (and in this way similar to the divine) creativity, which correlates with epistemological constructivism.
Mission and Martyrdom Oxbrow, Mark
Transformation (Exeter),
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Recenzirano
The Greek term mártyras carries the double meaning of witness and martyr. This paper invites an exploration of the relationship between these two concepts in the contexts of first century and ...contemporary Africa using the life of St Mark as a historical lens. The paper suggests that many Western authored histories of the Christian movement are distorted by a lack of attention to the Eastern and African expansion of the Church in the early centuries and that contemporary African Christians have erroneously bought into this emaciated history and the theology to which it has given rise. Through an examination of various themes in the life, witness and death of St Mark, and the relationship between martyrdom and witness in African Christian history, the paper encourages a reappraisal of the African roots of Christianity as a rich source for contemporary discipleship in Africa and the universal Church.
Abstract This paper seeks to highlight the various interpretations that, before the Second Council of Constantinople (May-June 553), many Latin Church Fathers gave on several metaphorical ...expressions, such as “God’s temple,” “sanctuary,” “tabernacle,” “ark,” and other similar terms referring to spaces or containers reserved for deity. To address this issue, the author of this article structures his methodology on three strategies: the first consists in a profound tracking in Patristic and theological sources to detect some relevant statements by conspicuous Christian masters on the subject; through the second, he analyzes intra-textually each found Patristic assertions to decipher the doctrinal interpretation that every Christian writer brings about such metaphors; by the third methodological strategy, he intertextually relates all these texts, and authors through a comparative analysis to highlight their possible concordances or discrepan- cies.
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