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Scriptural interpretation was an important form of scholarship for
Christians in late antiquity. For no one does this claim ring more
true than Origen of Alexandria (185-254), one of the most prolific
scholars of Scripture in early Christianity. This book examines his
approach to the Bible through a biographical lens: the focus is on
his account of the scriptural interpreter, the animating centre of
the exegetical enterprise. In pursuing this largely neglected line
of inquiry, Peter W. Martens discloses the contours of Origen's
sweeping vision of scriptural exegesis as a way of life. For
Origen, ideal interpreters were far more than philologists steeped
in the skills conveyed by Greco-Roman education. Their profile also
included a commitment to Christianity from which they gathered a
spectrum of loyalties, guidelines, dispositions, relationships and
doctrines that tangibly shaped how they practiced and thought about
their biblical scholarship. The study explores the many ways in
which Origen thought ideal scriptural interpreters (himself
included) embarked upon a way of life, indeed a way of salvation,
culminating in the everlasting contemplation of God. This new and
integrative thesis takes seriously how the discipline of scriptural
interpretation was envisioned by one of its pioneering and most
influential practitioners.
The early centuries of the Christian church are widely regarded as
the most decisive and influential for the formation of the
church’s convictions about Jesus Christ. The essays in this
volume offer readers a fresh orientation, and ground-breaking
analyses, of the figure of Jesus in late antiquity. Written by
historians and theologians who examine the thought of leading
theologians, Latin and Greek, from the second through the seventh
centuries, these essays honor and complement the scholarship of
Brian E. Daley, Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the
University of Notre Dame. While most discussions still confine
patristic Christology to its conciliar trajectory, this volume
broadens our horizons. The essays gathered here explore aspects of
early Christology that cannot be narrowly confined to the path
marked by the ecumenical councils. The contributors locate Jesus
within a rich matrix of relationships: they explore how early
Christian theologians connected Jesus Christ to their other
doctrinal concerns about God, the gift of salvation, and the
eschaton, and they articulate how convictions about Jesus Christ
informed numerous practices, including discipleship, martyrdom,
scriptural interpretation, and even the practice of thinking well
about Christ. Contributors: Peter W. Martens, D. Jeffrey Bingham,
Khaled Anatolios, Michael C. McCarthy, S.J., Carl L. Beckwith,
Christopher A. Beeley, Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, Basil Studer,
O.S.B., Rowan Douglas Williams, Lewis Ayres, David R. Maxwell, John
J. O'Keefe, John A. McGuckin, and Andrew Louth.
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