Encounters with the Pre-Nicene Christ Learning Christ: Ignatius of Antioch and The Mystery of Redemption, Gregory Vall, The Catholic University of America Press, 2021 (ISBN 978-0-8132-3478-6), xiv + 402 pp., pb 34.95 Clement and Scriptural Exegesis: The Making of a Commentarial Theologian, H. Clifton Ward, Oxford University Press, 2022 (ISBN 978-0-19-286336-2), xiv + 240 pp., hb £90 Cross and Creation: A Theological Introduction to Origen of Alexandria, Mark E. Therrien, The Catholic University of America Press, 2022 (ISBN 978-0-8132-3530-1), xxiv + 304 pp., pb 34.99 Origen and the Emergence of Divine Simplicity Before Nicaea, Pui Him Ip, University of Notre Dame Press, 2022 (ISBN 978-0-268-20361-0), xx + 276 pp., hb 85
These four books, all exemplary, attest the vibrancy of patristic scholarship today, and especially the fascination which the pre-Nicene period increasingly exerts. Stepping back behind Nicaea demands a refined sense for the texture of history, which may bring to light possibilities later lost as we...
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2023
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Reviews in religion and theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 30, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 3-11 |
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Middle Platonism
B Book review B development of doctrine B logos-Christology B Alexandria B Hellenization |
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