Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Historical Theology: Aim and Methodology
Part I. Defining the Method of Historical Theology
1. Of Slowness and Distance: Reflections on Philology and the Curation of Tradition in Catholic Theology
2. The Historical Methold: New Wine in Old Wineskins
Part II. Demonstrating the Method of Historical Theology: Reassessing Early Christian Theological Interpretation of Scripture
3. Kavod on the River: Jesus’s Baptism as Revelation of the Divine Glory
4 . “The Drops of the Dew”: The Interpretation of “Begetting” Language in the Early Trinitarian Controversies
Reexamining Sources and Influences
5. Philo of Alexandria, Eunomius of Cyzicus, and Gregory of Nyssa on Divine Names and Power(s)
6. Tertullian’s Solution for the Christological Union
7. Singulare et Unicum Imperium: Monarchianism and Latin Apologetic in Rome
8. Healing the Tripartite Soul: Gregory of Nyssa’s Canonical Letter to Letoius and Its Sources
9. A Revisionist Suggestion Regarding the Expansion of the Soul in Gregory’s Life of Benedict
Redefining Polemical Opponents and Strategies
10. Was Melito a Monarchian?
11. Hilary and the Spirit
12. Didymus the Blind’s Anti-Eunomian Doctrine of Inseparable Activity
13. The Sign of hte Cross and the Victory of Christ in Athanasius of Alexandria
Revisiting Scholarly Narratives
14. Why Did Ancient Christians Call Their Ministers Priests?
15. Tertullian’s Inconsistent Anti-Monarchianism
16. Universal Salvation as a Soteriological Implication of Marius Victorinus’s Cosmology
17. Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: The Case of the Vanishing Theophanies in Patristic Scholarship
18. Faith, Vision, and Church in the Early Books of Augustine’s De Trinitate
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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