"This book studies the complex attitude of late ancient Christians towards classical education. In recent years, the different theoretical positions that can be found among the Church Fathers have received particular attention: their statements ranged from enthusiastic assimilation to outright rejection, the latter sometimes masking implicit adoption. Shifting attention away from such explicit statements, this volume focuses on a series ..."
"By contrast we might consider Eustratios the Presbyter«s very learned Life of
Eutychios Patriarch of Constantinople, composed in the capital in the 580s or
590s, with 9.2 quotations per 1,000 words; or Leontios of Neapolis«s more
colloquial Life of John the Almsgiver, Patriarch of Alexandria, composed on
Cyprus in the early 640s with 3.9 quotations per 1,000 words.10 A number of the
biblical quotations in the Life of Mary of Egypt ..."
"Of these, the first 21 were transmitted together, and in a largely fixed order.2 The
last five letters, on the other hand, seem to have been added to this original
corpus at a later stage,3 and will therefore be of lesser concern to me here. ...
Richard Foerster and Heinz-Günther Nesselrath have already observed, for
example, that these letters document a close relationship between Basil and
Libanius, and suggested that the main po ..."
Die Kirche und ihre Heiligen(1st Edition) Studien zu Ekklesiologie und Hagiographie in der Spätantike (Studien Und Texte Zu Antike Und Christentum / Studies and ... Antiquity and Christianity) (German Edition) by PeterGemeinhardt Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 2014 by Mohr Siebeck ISBN-13: 978-3-16-152717-3, ISBN: 3-16-152717-8
"In the present volume, Peter Gemeinhardt investigates Christianity in late antiquity as an institution and as a community of saints. He focuses especially on structure and self-understanding of the Church in the 4th and 5th century and on the importance of martyrs even after the end of the persecutions, on the education of saints and on the Life of Antony and its author, Athanasius. While proper ecclesiological reflection is rare ..."
" Die intensiv diskutierte ökumenische und systematisch-theologische Frage, ob der Heilige Geist allein aus dem Vater oder auch aus dem Sohn hervorgeht (ex Patre Filioque), wird kirchen- und dogmengeschichtlich analysiert. Ausgehend von der differenzierten Rezeption des Nizäno-Konstantinopolitanums im lateinischen Sprachraum wird nach den Ursprüngen der Filioque-Kontroverse zwischen dem 8. und 12. Jahrhundert gefragt. Dabei werden d ..."
"Was das Heilige ist und wie man darüber sprechen kann, ist eine offene Frage in der religionswissenschaftlichen und theologischen Forschung. Jenseits der klassischen Entwürfe von Durkheim, Otto oder Eliade kann Heiliges heute nur in multiperspektivischer Betrachtung angemessen untersucht werden. Die Beiträge zu diesem Band analysieren Diskurse über Heiliges in spätantiken Religionskulturen: griechisch-römische Religion, Judentum und Chr ..."
"The Fathers of the Church are of great importance for the dialogue between protestant and orthodox churches. While the former have learnt about the ecumenical impact of the patristic period, the latter are confronted with the shape and content of reformation theology. For nearly three decades, Wolfgang Bienert has participated in the dialogue of the German Protestant Churches with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Regularly ..."
" The present volume’s focus lies on the formation of a multifaccetted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian identity, new literary genres emerge, e.g., the Lives of Saints (Athanasius on Antony), sermons (the Cappadocians), hynms (Prudentius) and more. Authors like Eusebius of Caesarea and Augustine employ martyrological language and motifs in their ..."
"Recent studies on the development of early Christianity emphasize the fragmentation of the late ancient world while paying less attention to a distinctive feature of the Christianity of this time which is its inter-connectivity. Both local and trans-regional networks of interaction contributed to the expansion of Christianity in this age of fragmentation. This volume investigates a specific aspect of this inter-connectivity in the area ..."
"Religion requires education. Soon after the emergence of Christianity, religious education became crucial to the development of Christian communities in towns and in the countryside. The present volume analyzes the human agents of this education: bishops, catechists, mothers and fathers, monastic teachers. It thus offers a comparative analysis of teachers' roles in Christian educational contexts, dealing with questions such as: Who taug ..."
"English summary: Holy texts shape the lives, thoughts and deeds of religious individuals and communities. This collection of essays highlights this fact from various angles, illuminating the exegesis of such texts as well as their practical application. What foundation exists for the authority of sacred texts? In what way do they communicate divine knowledge to human beings? And how can their messages be expertly revealed? The relations ..."
"The present volume´s focus lies on the formation of a multifaccetted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian identity, new literary genres emerge, e.g., the Lives of Saints (Athanasius on Antony), sermons (the Cappadocians), hynms (Prudentius) and more. Authors like Eusebius of Caesarea and Augustine employ martyrological language and motifs in their apolo ..."
"Carl Andresen (1909 1985) posed questions of continuing relevance: what was the attitude of early Christianity to the intellectual history of antiquity, how did it categorize theology and philosophy with respect to each other, how did it defend the Bible s claim to truth against concurrent systems of thought? This study provides an extensive and detailed reconstruction of the meeting of the world of antiquity and Christianity, including ..."
Antonius(1st Edition) Der erste Mönch by PeterGemeinhardt Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Beck C. H. ISBN-13: 978-3-406-64658-4, ISBN: 3-406-64658-1
"Antonius der Große, der als Einsiedler in der Wüste teuflischen Versuchungen widersteht und zum Leitbild des Mönchtums wird, ist eine Schlüsselfigur des frühen Christentums. Peter Gemeinhardt erzählt anhand der zahlreichen antiken Quellen das über hundert Jahre währende Leben des Heiligen und zeigt, warum dieses Urbild eines Asketen gerade in der Moderne so viele Schriftsteller und Künstler inspiriert hat.Kaum ein antiker Christ hat sei ..."
Die Heiligen by PeterGemeinhardt Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2010 by Beck C. H. ISBN-13: 978-3-406-58798-6, ISBN: 3-406-58798-4
"Vigilantius bemängelte, man feiere öfter Heiligengedenktage als Ostern (
Hieronymus, Contra Vigilantium 9). ... Augustin reagierte prompt: Keineswegs
würden die Märtyrer wie Götter verehrt, vielmehr «begeht das christliche Volk ihr
Gedächtnis mit religiöser ... sie Zeugnis ablegten, zu beachten: «Für uns sind die
Märtyrer keine Götter; wir kennen nur einen und denselben Gott, der sowohl
unserer ist als ..."
"Bildung gilt als "Megathema" der Moderne. Aber auch in Kulturen der Vormoderne sind Prozesse der Sozialisation, der Formation und der Initiation zu beobachten. Der vorliegende Band fokussiert diese Beobachtungen unter dem modernen Stichwort "Bildung", um ein differenziertes Instrumentarium fur vergleichende Untersuchungen vormoderner Kulturen - von der griechischen Antike bis zum europaischen Mittelalter und zum Klassischen Islam - zu e ..."
Weltkonstruktionen(1st Edition) Religiose Weltdeutung Zwischen Chaos Und Kosmos Vom Alten Orient Bis Zum Islam (Orientalische Religionen in Der Antike) (German Edition) by PeterGemeinhardt, Annette Zgoll, Mohr Siebeck Hardcover, 242 Pages, Published 2010 by Mohr Siebeck ISBN-13: 978-3-16-150582-9, ISBN: 3-16-150582-4
"English summary: Religion has to do with God and the world. This volume contains an interdisciplinary discussion on the interpretation of the world by religions in the Ancient Near East, Greco-Roman antiquity, the Old and New Testament, and by late ancient Christianity and Islam. The basic categories for interpreting the world are chaos and cosmos, creation and eschatology, heaven and earth or the world of the living and the netherworld ..."
"... Wilhelm Levison (Hannover: Hahn, 1951), 262; Gregory of Tours, The History
of the Franks, trans. ... were bishops of Lyon, Langres and Clermont; Conrad
Walter and Steffen Patzold, “Der Episkopat im Frankenreich der Merowingerzeit,”
in Steffen Patzold and Karl Ubl (eds.) ... RGA 90 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014): 109–
139, here 127. because it was nepotism but because the uncle was still 22 Volker
Menze."