The apostolic age in patristic thought / / edited by A. Hilhorst.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, v. 70
• TeilnehmendeR: Hilhorst, A.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 70.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume deals with how Christians of the first centuries looked back on the period of the nascent Church. Thanks to the incomparable stature of its founder, Jesus Christ, who had descended from heaven and commissioned his Apostles, this period was authorative for all Christians in matters of doctrine, institutions, rites and morality, a new phenomenon in the Graeco-Roman world. Its implications are explored in sixteen essays dealing with various subjects such as liturgy, the canon of Scriptures, the role of miracles, art, monasticism, and ministry. All contributions, taking into account both the views of individual Church fathers and Gnostic and Manichaean texts, make a large amount of primary material available.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Anthony Hilhorst -- ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE APOSTOLIC OFFICE / Theodore Korteweg -- THE EUCHARIST AS A LOVE-MEAL (AGAPE) IN DIDACHE 9–10, AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE PAULINE AND IN THE SYRIAN TRADITION / Joseph Ysebaert -- ROMANTIC FANTASIES: EARLY CHRISTIANS LOOKING BACK ON THE APOSTOLIC PERIOD / Ton Hilhorst -- THE NOTION AПOΣTOΛIKOΣ: A TERMINOLOGICAL SURVEY / Peter Van Deun -- MIRACLES RECALLING THE APOSTOLIC AGE / Jan den Boeft -- LITURGY ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE APOSTLES / Gerard Rouwhorst -- LA TRADITION APOSTOLIQUE ET LE CANON DU NOUVEAU TESTAMENT / Riemer Roukema -- WITNESSES AND MEDIATORS OF CHRIST’S GNOSTIC TEACHINGS / Gerard P. Luttikhuizen -- DIE APOSTOLIZITÄT DER KIRCHLICHEN VERKÜNDIGUNG BEI IRENÄUS VON LYON / H. S. Benjamins -- ORIGEN’S VIEW OF APOSTOLIC TRADITION / Fred Ledegang -- THE PARACLETE MANI AS THE APOSTLE OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE ORIGINS OF A NEW CHURCH / Johannes van Oort -- THE APOSTOLIC WORLD OF THOUGHT IN EARLY CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY / Arnold Provoost -- THE ERA OF THE APOSTLES ACCORDING TO EUSEBIUS’ HISTORY OF THE CHURCH / Adelbert Davids -- MONKS: THE ASCETIC MOVEMENT AS A RETURN TO THE AETAS APOSTOLICA / G. J. M. Bartelink -- PRIMUM ENIM OMNES DOCEBANT: AWARENESS OF DISCONTINUITY IN THE EARLY CHURCH: THE CASE OF ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICE / B. Dehandschutter -- URBS BEATA JERUSALEM: SAINT AUGUSTIN SUR JÉRUSALEM / Antoon A. R. Bastiaensen -- INDEX OF REFERENCES / Anthony Hilhorst.