The Making of Syriac Jerusalem: Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle A...
Published in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Published in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Published in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
In AH 2,13,2 Irenaeus describes the activity of the mind as unfolding in a five-stage process, with each stage having a distinct name: ennoia, enthymēsis, phronēsis, boulē, and dialogismos. His account manifestly draws on philosophical psychology and epistemology, which has led scholars to assume he is using a source written by a member of one of t...
Published in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Published in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
In the more than seventeen hundred years that passed since he was proclaimed emperor of the Roman Empire, different stories about Diocletian have provided different images of the emperor. The writers of “passions”, who tell us about the martyrs who died, or allegedly died, during the Diocletianic persecution recoil in horror when they describe this...
Published in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Scholarship on the Jovinianist controversy has shown that the idea of baptism as deeply transformative lay at the heart of Jovinian’s thinking. Scholars have likewise held that Jerome, who through his Adversus Jovinianum is our main source to the ideas of Jovinian, did not acknowledge the ecclesiological concerns on which his opponent’s argument wa...
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Chrysostom construed attention as an unwavering and wholehearted dedication to the study of the Word in view of one’s moral transformation. As it will become evident the attainment of this state required instruction, not in doctrines, but in the art of asking questions. This article tries to place Chrysostom’s hermeneutics in its Middle Platonic an...
Published in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Published in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Published in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Published in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Clement of Alexandria provides extensive material on Greek philosophy in his Paedagogos and his Stromata. As it was part of contemporary philosophical debate, both works include so called doxographies listing the opinions (doxai) of philosophers about certain topics. In this article, I will show how Clement takes up ethical doxographies concerning ...