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Seeing through the eyes of faith : new approaches to the mystagogy of the Church Fathers / edited by Paul van Geest.

Contributor(s): Geest, Paul van [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Late antique history and religion: 11.Publisher: Leuven : Peeters, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: xiv, 728 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789042931985; 9042931981Subject(s): Fathers of the church | Mystagogy -- Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600LOC classification: BR67 | .S44 2016Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 649-698) and indexes.
Contents:
Studying the Mystagogy of the Fathers: an Introduction / Paul van Geest -- Mystagogical Terminology in Liturgical Contexts / Gerard Rouwhorst -- The Meaning of 'Mystagogy' in Cyril of Alexandria / Hans van Loon -- The Communication of Mysteria in the Mystagogical Discourses of Ambrose and Chrystosom / Americo Miranda -- Mystagogy, Apologetics, Rhetorics and Polemics -- Theological Perspectives on Apologetic Persuasion in Justin Martyr, Athenagoras, and Theophilus of Antioch / Aza Goudriaan -- The Binominal Antithesis in the Works of Cyril of Jerusalem between Pagan Inheritance and Christian Metamorphosis / Rocco Schembra -- Bible, Rhetoric and Theology: Some Examples of Mystagogical Strategies in St. Gregory of Nyssa's Sermons / Johan Leemans -- Mystagogical Theology in Gregory of Nyssa's Epiphany Sermon In diem luminum / Piet Hein Hupsch -- Mystagogy in St. Augustine: Rhetoric, Exegesis, and Liminality / Karla Pollmann -- Augustine's Mystagogical Strategy in some Easter Sermons / Marie-Anne Vannier -- Cum tremore se exultare. Polemics and Mystagogy in St. Augustine's Writings to the So-called Semi-Pelagians / Bart van Egmond -- Mystagogy and the Introduction to the Creed -- Rufinus and the Creed: New Viewpoints from an Old Witness? A Possible Mystagogical Use of the Expositio Symboli / Liuwe H. Westra -- There and Back Again -- A Creed's Tale. The Interaction between Baptismal (Mystagogical) and Polemical Creeds / Peter van Egmond -- 'Who can express in Words the Difference between the Quality of the Sweetness of a Date and a Dried Fig?' Origen, Images, and the Way to Godhood / Karl F. Morrison -- 'God on Earth, Man in Heaven'. John Chrysostom's Use of Celestial Imagery for the Christian Life / Maria Verhoeff -- From 'Divine Law' to Miracle as Visible Theology: Tracing an Imaginative Shift / Giselle de Nie -- St. Augustine's Mystagogical Instruction of Ideas and Images / Laela Zwollo -- Confession as an Image. St. Augustine's Shift from Mystagogy to Negative Theology / Matthias Smalbrugge --
Mystagogy, Liturgical Initiation and Eucharist -- Christian Initiation in Antioch between St. John Chrysostom and St. Severus / Sever J. Voicu -- 'Keeping the Mystery by which we are kept': Mystagogy in the Odes of Solomon / Gie Vleugels -- 'Receive today how you are to call upon God'. The Lord's Prayer and Augustine's Mystagogy / William Harmless -- Mystagogy in Saint Maximus / Andrew Louth -- Personal and Communal Mystagogy in St. Maximus the Confessor / Michael Bakker -- Liturgically Mediated Plurality. Transformative Contemplation in St. Basil's Eucharistic canon and in St. Maximus' Mystagogy / Stephen C. Headley -- Symbolism in the Liturgical Commentary of St. Germanos of Constantinople / Kallistos Ware -- Mystagogy, Initiation and Spiritual Growth -- Songs in the Desert. The Rabbis and Origen on Spiritual Ascent / Marcel Poorthuis -- Prayer in the Mystagogy of Clement, Origen, and John / Margareth Schatkin -- The Lenten Lectures of St. Cyril of Jerusalem: from Pedagogics to Mystagogy / Michiel Op de Coul -- St. Ambrose's Mystagogy: A Learning Process to 'See with the eyes of faith' / Marten van Willigen -- The Desert Sayings (Apophthegmata Patrum) as Mystagogical Path: Images of 'Hesychia' in the Systematic Collection, Chapter 2 / Nienke Vos -- St. Augustine's Exercitatio mentis and its Function in Mystagogy: Opening up the Individual for Exercises in Communal Thinking and Living / Martin Claes -- Becoming a Limb of the Totus Christus: St. Augustine's Mystagogy in Confessiones 13 as Trans-Identification / Daniel Napier -- The Impulse of Allegory. Lectio divina as Mystagogy in Gregory the Great / Arnold Smeets -- Mystagogy and Martyrdom -- Mystagogy and Martyrdom in Ignatius of Antioch / Peter Ben Smit -- Scriptures and Dreams. The Prophetic Identity of the Martyr Perpetua. A Narrative Mystagogy / Bart J. Koet -- A Martyr's Pain is Not Pain: Mystagogical Directives in Tertullian's Ad martyras, and some other North African Martyr Texts / Henk Bakker.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BR67 .S44 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903293369

Includes bibliographical references (pages 649-698) and indexes.

Introduction -- Studying the Mystagogy of the Fathers: an Introduction / Paul van Geest -- Mystagogical Terminology in Liturgical Contexts / Gerard Rouwhorst -- The Meaning of 'Mystagogy' in Cyril of Alexandria / Hans van Loon -- The Communication of Mysteria in the Mystagogical Discourses of Ambrose and Chrystosom / Americo Miranda -- Part 1: Mystagogy, Apologetics, Rhetorics and Polemics -- Theological Perspectives on Apologetic Persuasion in Justin Martyr, Athenagoras, and Theophilus of Antioch / Aza Goudriaan -- The Binominal Antithesis in the Works of Cyril of Jerusalem between Pagan Inheritance and Christian Metamorphosis / Rocco Schembra -- Bible, Rhetoric and Theology: Some Examples of Mystagogical Strategies in St. Gregory of Nyssa's Sermons / Johan Leemans -- Mystagogical Theology in Gregory of Nyssa's Epiphany Sermon In diem luminum / Piet Hein Hupsch -- Mystagogy in St. Augustine: Rhetoric, Exegesis, and Liminality / Karla Pollmann -- Augustine's Mystagogical Strategy in some Easter Sermons / Marie-Anne Vannier -- Cum tremore se exultare. Polemics and Mystagogy in St. Augustine's Writings to the So-called Semi-Pelagians / Bart van Egmond -- Part 2: Mystagogy and the Introduction to the Creed -- Rufinus and the Creed: New Viewpoints from an Old Witness? A Possible Mystagogical Use of the Expositio Symboli / Liuwe H. Westra -- There and Back Again -- A Creed's Tale. The Interaction between Baptismal (Mystagogical) and Polemical Creeds / Peter van Egmond -- Part 3: Mystagogy and Visual Symbolism -- 'Who can express in Words the Difference between the Quality of the Sweetness of a Date and a Dried Fig?' Origen, Images, and the Way to Godhood / Karl F. Morrison -- 'God on Earth, Man in Heaven'. John Chrysostom's Use of Celestial Imagery for the Christian Life / Maria Verhoeff -- From 'Divine Law' to Miracle as Visible Theology: Tracing an Imaginative Shift / Giselle de Nie -- St. Augustine's Mystagogical Instruction of Ideas and Images / Laela Zwollo -- Confession as an Image. St. Augustine's Shift from Mystagogy to Negative Theology / Matthias Smalbrugge --

Part 4: Mystagogy, Liturgical Initiation and Eucharist -- Christian Initiation in Antioch between St. John Chrysostom and St. Severus / Sever J. Voicu -- 'Keeping the Mystery by which we are kept': Mystagogy in the Odes of Solomon / Gie Vleugels -- 'Receive today how you are to call upon God'. The Lord's Prayer and Augustine's Mystagogy / William Harmless -- Mystagogy in Saint Maximus / Andrew Louth -- Personal and Communal Mystagogy in St. Maximus the Confessor / Michael Bakker -- Liturgically Mediated Plurality. Transformative Contemplation in St. Basil's Eucharistic canon and in St. Maximus' Mystagogy / Stephen C. Headley -- Symbolism in the Liturgical Commentary of St. Germanos of Constantinople / Kallistos Ware -- Part 5: Mystagogy, Initiation and Spiritual Growth -- Songs in the Desert. The Rabbis and Origen on Spiritual Ascent / Marcel Poorthuis -- Prayer in the Mystagogy of Clement, Origen, and John / Margareth Schatkin -- The Lenten Lectures of St. Cyril of Jerusalem: from Pedagogics to Mystagogy / Michiel Op de Coul -- St. Ambrose's Mystagogy: A Learning Process to 'See with the eyes of faith' / Marten van Willigen -- The Desert Sayings (Apophthegmata Patrum) as Mystagogical Path: Images of 'Hesychia' in the Systematic Collection, Chapter 2 / Nienke Vos -- St. Augustine's Exercitatio mentis and its Function in Mystagogy: Opening up the Individual for Exercises in Communal Thinking and Living / Martin Claes -- Becoming a Limb of the Totus Christus: St. Augustine's Mystagogy in Confessiones 13 as Trans-Identification / Daniel Napier -- The Impulse of Allegory. Lectio divina as Mystagogy in Gregory the Great / Arnold Smeets -- Part 6: Mystagogy and Martyrdom -- Mystagogy and Martyrdom in Ignatius of Antioch / Peter Ben Smit -- Scriptures and Dreams. The Prophetic Identity of the Martyr Perpetua. A Narrative Mystagogy / Bart J. Koet -- A Martyr's Pain is Not Pain: Mystagogical Directives in Tertullian's Ad martyras, and some other North African Martyr Texts / Henk Bakker.

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