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Reading Augustine : a guide to the Confessions.
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ISBN: 1597525294 9781597525299 Year: 2006 Publisher: Eugene Wipf and Stock

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Altchristliche Lebensführung zwischen Bibel und Tugendlehre : Ethik bei den griechischen Philosophen und den frühen Christen.
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ISBN: 3525825447 9783525825440 Year: 2006 Volume: 272 Publisher: Göttingen Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht

Die Würde des Menschen
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ISSN: 0920623X ISBN: 9004154485 9789004154483 9786611400880 1281400882 9047411277 9789047411277 Year: 2006 Volume: 81 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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There can be no doubt that there is a link between early Christian statements on human dignity and the corresponding modern concept, as it appears ever more frequently in current bioethical debates. This study attempts to throw light on the surprisingly complex process of the emergence of such a Christian concept of human dignity in antiquity and portrays it as a process governed by contradictions and antagonisms: between biblical and platonic anthropology; between a platonic and a stoic perception of humanity; between gnostic and antignostic cosmology; between biblically based criticism of human culture on the one hand and heilsgeschichtlichem cultural optimism on the other hand; between Greek and Roman thinking. This history of the idea of the “dignity of man” is being recounted taking into consideration the complex matrix of Christian theory and practice (including issues such as worship, contraception and abortion), piety and theological reflection, ethics, liturgy and theological as well as cutural anthropology. *** Bei dieser Studie handelt es sich um den Versuch einer zusammenfassenden Darstellung der christlich-antiken Auseinandersetzung mit der Würde des menschlichen Lebens Diese wird nicht nur gegenwärtig etwa in der Bioethik wieder kontrovers diskutiert, sondern ist auch in der Antike ein Feld philosophischer und theologischer Überlegungen gewesen. Volp fragt, inwieweit sich in den Schriften der antiken christlichen Denker die Vorstellung einer mit einer besonderen Würde ausgestatteten gemein-menschlichen Natur findet, die Menschen von Tieren und von belebter und unbelebter Materie unterscheidet, und wie diese Natur gefaßt und begründet wird. Ausgehend von der These, daß diese Überlegungen nicht nur Auswirkungen auf die ethische und religiöse Praxis der Alten Kirche hatten, sondern umgekehrt auch entscheidend von ihr geprägt wurden, konzentriert sich die Arbeit nicht nur auf die theoretischen Äußerungen der Kirchenväter, sondern bezieht ethische Konkretionen (Schwangerschaftsabbruch, Umgang mit Menschen mit Behinderungen, Krieg) und den christlichen Kult mit in die Untersuchung ein. Zum Vorschein kommt ein überraschend komplexes Bild einer alles andere als selbstverständlichen geistesgeschichtlichen Entwicklung, deren Folgen bis in die heutige Zeit nachwirken.


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Alla ricerca del volto di Dio : la nascita del pensiero cristiano
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ISBN: 8834310748 9788834310748 Year: 2006 Volume: 24 Publisher: Milano : Vita e Pensiero,

Pre-benedictine monasticism. : initiation into the monastic tradition 2.
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ISBN: 0879070730 9780879070731 Year: 2006 Volume: 9 Publisher: Kalamazoo Cistercian publ.

Origen : cosmology and ontology of time
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ISSN: 0920623X ISBN: 9004147284 9047417631 9789004147287 9789047417637 Year: 2006 Volume: 77

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Origen's Cosmology and Ontology of Time constitute a major catalyst and a massive transformation in the development of Christian doctrine. The author challenges the widespread impression about this theology being bowled head over heels by its encounter with Platonism, Gnosticism, or Neoplatonism, and casts new light on Origen's grasp of the relation between Hellenism, Hebrew thought and Christianity. Against all ancient and modern accounts, the ingrained claim that Origen sustained the theory of a beginningless world is disconfirmed. He is argued to be the anticipator and forerunner of critical notions, with his innovations never having been superseded. While some of the accounts afforded by subsequent Christian writers were more extended, they were not fuller. Of them, Augustine just fell short of even accurately echoing this Theory of Time, since he introduced affinity with Platonism at points where Origen had instituted a radical dissimilarity. With his background fruitfully brought into the study of these questions, Origen's propositions are genuine innovations, not mere advances, however massive.


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Nuovo dizionario patristico e di antichità cristiane
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ISBN: 8821167402 9788821167416 9788821167423 9788821167409 8821167410 8821167429 9788821167430 8821167437 Year: 2006 Publisher: Genova : Marietti 1820,

The doctrine of deification in the Greek patristic tradition
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ISBN: 0199265216 9780199205974 9780199265213 0191695637 0199205973 1280965177 0191532711 9786610965175 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford university press,

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Deification in the Greek patristic tradition was the fulfillment of the destiny for which humanity was created - not merely salvation from sin but entry into the fullness of the divine life of the Trinity. This book, the first on the subject for over sixty years, traces the history of deification from its birth as a second-century metaphor with biblical roots to its maturity as a doctrine central to the spiritual life of the Byzantine Church. Drawing attention to the richness and diversity of the patristic approaches from Irenaeus to Maximus the Confessor, Norman Russell offers a full discussion of the background and context of the doctrine, at the same time highlighting its distinctively Christian character.

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