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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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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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| Summary: | 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 well as tensions later smothered. The four authors have illuminated afresh the theological profiles of Ignatius, Clement, and Origen, and also the figure of Christ as it emerges in these pristine centuries between the New Testament and Nicaea. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9418 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Reviews in religion and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/rirt.14190 |