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Publications for the Centre - 2003 Brochure
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Soft-cover image: Mosaic Icon of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, Constantinople, c. 1300-
WHY WAS THE COMMEMORATION OF MARTYRS SO IMPORTANT IN THE EARLY CHURCH?
The cult of the saints - martyrs being the most notable among them - was an important feature of the daily life of Early Christian communities. The supernatural powers believed to reside in the saints' relics attracted many visitors to their sanctuaries, and inspired a variety of devotional practices. The homily on the martyr was a culmination of the yearly feast day in and around each sanctuary. This book presents fresh, lively translations of fourteen such homilies, the majority for the first time in English. The homilies were delivered in some of the main cities of the Greek East of the later Roman Empire, by well-known figures such as Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom, as well as the equally gifted preachers, Asterius of Amasea and Hesychius of Jerusalem. Each author receives a separate introduction, and each homily also has its own introduction and notes. The main introduction gives useful background information on the cult of the martyrs in Roman Asia Minor, Palestine and Syria, and on the martyr homily as a literary genre, while also presenting possible methodological approaches to the texts. `Let Us Die That We May Live' offers an approachable, surprising and not always reverent insight into the life of the Early Church. It reveals the full importance of the martyr homily in terms of style, treatment of its subject, and social and liturgical issues, in a way that will he useful across disciplines such as theology, classical studies and religion. Johan Leemans is postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Wendy Mayer is Research Fellow in the Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University. Pauline Allen is professor of Early Christian Studies and Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University. Boudewijn Dehandschutter is professor of Patrology and Ancient Church History at the Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. |
Daniel Van Slyke is an Assistant Professor at the University of St. Mary of the Lake / George Mundelein Seminary in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Trained in historical theology, he researches and lectures on western Christianity in the later Roman empire and the development of sacramental thought and practice. |
This study provides a fresh analysis of the ancient evidence and the modern scholarship on Quodvultdeus, the bishop of Carthage who was exiled by the Vandals in AD 439. Focusing on the Liber promissionum et praedictorum Dei [OR Book of the Promises and Predictions of God], Dr. Van Slyke highlights Quodvultdeus' apocalyptic preoccupations, and sets forth the unique contours of the bishop's theology through a detailed analysis of how he selectively appropriates the eschatological thought of previous Christian authors such as Jerome and Orosius. Particular attention is paid to Augustine's influence on Quodvultdeus in order to draw out the considerable independence of the latter's thought. By placing the preeminent African bishop in the context of the religious and political upheavals of his time occasioned by the incursion of barbarians in the western Roman empire, this study elucidates the purpose behind the Liber and the dynamic between the exiled African author and his complacent Italian audience. See Brochure
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Maximus the Confessor and his Companions provides the first English translations of seven documents from the seventh century which recount the legal trials, banishment and deaths of the Monk Maximus the Confessor, his disciples and friends, and Pope Martin I. The background to these documents is formed by Byzantine imperial religious policy, radical change in the Byzantine empire, Arab and Persian attacks, and the close ties which existed between Maximus and his followers and the West. |
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