Christians shaping identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium : : studies inspired by Pauline Allen / / edited by Geoffrey Dunn, Wendy Mayer.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Volume 132
• TeilnehmendeR: Dunn, Geoffrey D., 1962-; Mayer, Wendy,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; Volume 132.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The essays collected in Christians Shaping Identity celebrate Pauline Allen’s significant contribution to early Christian, late antique, and Byzantine studies, especially concerning bishops, heresy/orthodoxy and christology. Covering the period from earliest Christianity to middle Byzantium, the first eighteen essays explore the varied ways in which Christians constructed their own identity and that of the society around them. A final four essays explore the same theme within Roman Catholicism and oriental Christianity in the late 19th to 21st centuries, with particular attention to the subtle relationships between the shaping of the early Christian past and the moulding of Christian identity today. Among the many leading scholars represented are Averil Cameron and Elizabeth A. Clark.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction / Wendy Mayer and Geoffrey D. Dunn -- 2 Jews, Gentiles and Ethnic Identity in the Gospel of Matthew / David C. Sim -- 3 Die Herkunft der Christen in der Apologie des Aristides: Baustein zu einem Kommentar / Michael Lattke -- 4 What did Ancient Christians Say when they Cast out Demons? Inferences from Spells and Amulets / Theodore de Bruyn -- 5 On Being a Christian in Late Antiquity: St Basil the Great between the Desert and the City / Andrew Louth -- 6 The Likeness to God and the Imitation of Christ: The Transformation of the Platonic Tradition in Gregory of Nyssa / Shigeki Tsuchihashi -- 7 Origen after the Origenist Controversy / Miyako Demura -- 8 Shaping the Sick Soul: Reshaping the Identity of John Chrysostom / Wendy Mayer -- 9 Theory and Practice in Ambrose: De officiis and the Political Interventions of the Bishop of Milan / Mary Sheather -- 10 Jerome as Priest, Exegete, and ‘Man of the Church’ / Philip Rousseau -- 11 The Use of Comparison and Contrast in Shaping the Identity of a Desert Monk / Jacobus P.K. Kritzinger -- 12 Augustine’s Scriptural Exegesis in De sermone Domini in monte and the Shaping of Christian Perfection / Naoki Kamimura -- 13 Shaping the Poor: The Philosophical Anthropology of Augustine in the Context of the Era of Crisis / Kazuhiko Demura -- 14 Innocent I on Heretics and Schismatics as Shaping Christian Identity / Geoffrey D. Dunn -- 15 Ariadne Augusta: Shaping the Identity of the Early Byzantine Empress / Brian Croke -- 16 Dream Interpretation and Christian Identity in Late Antique Rome and Byzantium / Bronwen Neil -- 17 Shaping Coptic Christian Identity: Severus and the Adoption in Egypt of the Cult of the Forty Martyrs / Youhanna Nessim Youssef -- 18 The Treatment of Ecumenical Councils in Byzantine Chronicles / Roger Scott -- 19 Flights of Fancy: Some Imaginary Debates in Late Antiquity / Averil Cameron -- 20 The Personal Identity of Jesus Christ: Alois Grillmeier’s Contribution to its Conceptualisation / Michael Slusser -- 21 Christological Declarations with Oriental Churches / Theresia Hainthaler -- 22 ‘Historical Development’ and Early Christianity: George Tyrrell’s Modernist Adaptation and Critique / Elizabeth A. Clark -- 23 Male-Centred Christology and Female Cultic Incapability: Women’s impedimentum sexus / Kari Elisabeth Børresen -- Index of Primary Sources -- General Index.