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Why is the Resurrection of Christ so remote, almost non-existent in
many early Christian writings of the first 140 years of
Christianity? This is the first Patristic book to focus on the
development of the belief in the Resurrection of Christ through the
first centuries A.D. By Paul, Christ's Resurrection is regarded as
the basis of Christian hope. In the fourth century it becomes a
central Christian tenet. But what about the discrepancy in the
first three centuries? This thought provoking book explores this
core topic in Christian culture and theology. Taking a broad
approach - including iconography, archaeology, history, philosophy,
Jewish Studies and theology - Markus Vinzent offers innovative
reading of well known biblical and other texts complemented by
rarely discussed evidence. Christ's Resurrection in Early
Christianity takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the
wilderness of unorthodox perspectives in the breadth of early
Christian writings. It is an eye-opening experience with insights
into the craftsmanship of early Christianity - and the earliest
existential debates about life and death, death and life - all
centred on the cross, on suffering, enduring and sacrifice.
Why is the Resurrection of Christ so remote, almost non-existent in
many early Christian writings of the first 140 years of
Christianity? This is the first Patristic book to focus on the
development of the belief in the Resurrection of Christ through the
first centuries A.D. By Paul, Christ's Resurrection is regarded as
the basis of Christian hope. In the fourth century it becomes a
central Christian tenet. But what about the discrepancy in the
first three centuries? This thought provoking book explores this
core topic in Christian culture and theology. Taking a broad
approach - including iconography, archaeology, history, philosophy,
Jewish Studies and theology - Markus Vinzent offers innovative
reading of well known biblical and other texts complemented by
rarely discussed evidence. Christ's Resurrection in Early
Christianity takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the
wilderness of unorthodox perspectives in the breadth of early
Christian writings. It is an eye-opening experience with insights
into the craftsmanship of early Christianity - and the earliest
existential debates about life and death, death and life - all
centred on the cross, on suffering, enduring and sacrifice.
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Against Marcellus (Hardcover)
Eusebius of Caesarea; Translated by Kelly Spoerl, Markus Vinzent
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This is the first English translation of the last two theological
works of Eusebius of Caesarea, Against Marcellus and On
Ecclesiastical Theology. The first text was composed after the
deposition of Marcellus of Ancyra in 336 to justify the action of
the council fathers in ordering the deposition on the grounds of
heresy, contending that Marcellus was "Sabellian" (or modalist) on
the Trinity and a follower of Paul of Samosata (hence adoptionist)
in Christology. Relying heavily upon extensive quotations from a
treatise Marcellus wrote against Asterius the Sophist, this text
provides important information about ecclesiastical politics in the
period before and just after the Council of Nicea, and endeavors to
demonstrate Marcellus's erroneous interpretation of several key
biblical passages that had been under discussion since before the
council. In doing so, Eusebius criticizes Marcellus's inadequate
account of the distinction between the persons of the Trinity,
eschatology, and the Church's teaching about the divine and human
identities of Christ. On Ecclesiastical Theology, composed circa
338/339 just before Eusebius's death, and perhaps in response to
the amnesty for deposed bishops enacted by Constantius after the
death of Constantine in 377 and the possibility of Marcellus's
return to his see, continues to lay out the criticisms initially
put forward in Against Marcellus, again utilizing quotations from
Marcellus's book against Asterius. However, we see in this text a
much more systematic explanation of Eusebius's objections to the
various elements of Marcellus's theology and what he sees as the
proper orthodox articulation of those elements. Long overlooked for
statements at odds with later orthodoxy, even written off as
heretical because allegedly "semi-Arian," recent scholarship has
demonstrated the tremendous influence these texts had on the Greek
theological tradition in the fourth century, especially on the
orthodox understanding of the Trinity. In addition to their
influence, they are some of the few complete texts that we have
from Greek theologians in the immediate period following the
Council of Nicea in 325, thus filling a gap in the materials
available for research and teaching in this critical phase of
theological development.
Despite novel approaches to the study of Early Christianity - New
Historicity, New Philology, Gender and Queer Studies; many turns -
Material, Linguistic, Cultural; and developments in Reception
History, Cultural Transfer, and Entangled History, much scholarship
on this topic differs little from that written a century ago. In
this study, Markus Vinzent challenges the interpretation of the
sources that have been used in the study of the Early Christian
era. He brings a new approach to the topic by reading history
backwards. Applying this methodology to four case studies, and
using a range of media, he poses radically new questions on the
famous 'Abercius' inscription, on the first extant apologist
Aristides of Athens, on the prolific Hippolytus of Rome, and on
Ignatius and the first non-canonical collection of letters.
Vinzent's novel methodology of a retrospective writing thus
challenges many fundamental and anachronistic assumptions about
Early Christian history.
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