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A comprehensive study of the rise, development and use of credal
formulaines in the creative centuries of the Church's history.
A comprehensive study of the rise, development and use of credal
formulaines in the creative centuries of the Church's history.
This fascinating dictionary gives concise accounts of every
officially recognized pope in history, from St Peter to Pope
Benedict XVI, as well as all of their irregularly elected rivals,
the so-called antipopes. Each pope and antipope's entry covers his
family and social background and pre-papal career as well as his
activities in office. Also, an appendix provides a detailed
discussion and analysis of many topics including the theory that
there has been a female pope. This new edition reflects the very
latest in papal research and contains additional information in the
further reading sections of each entry, making the book an even
more useful starting place for research into specific pontiffs.
Moreover, the entries are arranged chronologically, creating a
continuous history of the papacy over almost 2,000 years. It
reveals how, for much of that history, spiritual and temporal power
has been inextricably mingled in the person of the pope. A
fascinating read for students of theology and history, as well as
the general reader with an interest in Christian history.
John Chrysostom, or "Golden Mouth", was a famous ascetic and
preacher of the fourth/fifth century, a controversial bishop of
Constantinople, and a brilliant orator - hence the epithet. This is
the first comprehensive study of him in the English language in
over a century. In the early chapters John Kelly highlights
Chrysostom's youthful experiments with asceticism at Antioch in
Syria, his six years as a monk and then a recluse in the nearby
mountains, and his influential role as Antioch's leading preacher.
The central section of the book shows him as a fearlessly outspoken
populist bishop of the capital. Kelly focuses on his authoritarian
style, his interventions in political crises, and his clashes with
the Empress Eudoxia, as well as his efforts to promote the primacy
of the see of Constantinople in the east. The final chapters
reconstruct the plots that led to Chrysostom's downfall, the drama
of his trial, and his exile and death. Golden Mouth also provides
fresh analyses of Chrysostom's principal treatises and public
addresses, and discussions of his views on monasticism, sexuality
and marriage, education, and suffering.
This is part of a series of modern commentaries based on new
English translations made by their respective editors.
While adhering strictly to sound scholarship and doctrine, they
intend, above all, to bring out the theological and religious
message of the New Testament to the contemporary Church.
This is a comprehensive study of the well known and the not so well
known creeds. Dr Kelly's famous book - a study of the rise,
development and use of formularies in the creative centuries of the
Church's history - was immediately acclaimed in Europe and America
as the standard work on the subject. The book opens with an
examination of creedal elements in the New Testament and continues
with an enquiry into the relation of creeds to the rite of Baptism.
The chapters that follow are devoted to a study of the evidence for
'the rule of faith' in the second century; a long discussion of the
old Roman Creed; and a consideration of the creeds of the Eastern
Church and their relation to Western creeds and to those propounded
by the fourth-century councils. Particular attention is given to
the Council of Nicea and the Nicene Creed. In addition, there is a
lengthy and largely original reconstruction of the expansion of the
Roman Creed and its acceptance throughout Europe as the present
Apostle's Creed. Two valuable features of the book are the emphasis
it lays on the liturgical setting of ancient creeds, and the
attempt it makes to elucidate their theology as it was understood
by those who framed them.
A history of doctrines of the Early Church, written and arranged
with exceptional clarity by a leading patristic scholar. Canon
Kelly describes the development of the principal Christian
doctrines from the close of the first century to the middle of the
fifth, and from the end of the apostolic age to the council of
Chalcedon.
John Chrysostom, or "Golden Mouth", was a famous ascetic and
preacher of the fourth/fifth century, a controversial bishop of
Constantinople, and a brilliant orator - hence the epithet. This is
the first comprehensive study of him in the English language in
over a century. In the early chapters John Kelly highlights
Chrysostom's youthful experiments with asceticism at Antioch in
Syria, his six years as a monk and then a recluse in the nearby
mountains, and his influential role as Antioch's leading preacher.
The central section of the book shows him as a fearlessly outspoken
populist bishop of the capital. Kelly focuses on his authoritarian
style, his interventions in political crises, and his clashes with
the Empress Eudoxia, as well as his efforts to promote the primacy
of the see of Constantinople in the east. The final chapters
reconstruct the plots that led to Chrysostom's downfall, the drama
of his trial, and his exile and death. Golden Mouth also provides
fresh analyses of Chrysostom's principal treatises and public
addresses, and discussions of his views on monasticism, sexuality
and marriage, education, and suffering.
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