(H/B) DOCTRINE AND DEBATE IN THE EAST CHRISTIAN WORLD, 300-1500

Παρουσίαση

The reign of Constantine (306-37), the starting point for the series in which this volume appears, saw Christianity begin its journey from being just one of a number of competing cults to being the official religion of the Roman/Byzantine Empire. The involvement of emperors had the, perhaps inevitable, result of a preoccupation with producing, promoting and enforcing a single agreed version of the Christian creed. Under this pressure Christianity in the East fragmented into different sects, disagreeing over the nature of Christ, but also, in some measure, seeking to resist imperial interference and to elaborate Christianities more reflective of and sensitive to local concerns and cultures.
This volume presents an introduction to, and a selection of the key studies on, the ways in which and means by which these Eastern Christianities debated with one another and with their competitors: pagans, Jews, Muslims and Latin Christians. It also includes the iconoclast controversy, which divided parts of the East Christian world in the seventh to ninth centuries, and devotes space both to the methodological tools that evolved in the process of debate and the promulgation of doctrine, and to the literary genres through which the debates were expressed. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction
Supplementary bibliography
Part 1. The Formative Period
The making of a heretic: the Life of Origen in Epiphanius Panarion, J. Rebecca Lyman
Manichaeans and public disputation in late antiquity, Richard Lim
The conversations with the Syrian Orthodox under Justinian (532), Sebastian Brock
Anti-Jewish polemic and the emergence of Islam, V. Deroche
Part 2. The Encounter with Islam
Byzantine accounts of Islam, Wolfgang Eichner
Disputes with Muslims in Syriac Christian texts: from Patriarch John (d.648) to Bar Hebraeus (d.1286), Sidney H. Griffith
The signs of prophecy: the emergence and early development of a theme in Arabic theological literature, Sarah Stroumsa
Reopening the Muslim-Christian dialogue of the 13th-14th centuries: critical reflections on Ibn Taymiyyah's response to Christianity, Nancy N. Roberts
Part 3. Iconoclasm
A Dark-Age crisis: aspects of the Iconoclastic controversy, Peter Brown
Texts as weapons: polemic in the Byzantine dark ages, Averil Cameron
Part 4. Anti-Latin Texts
Byzantine perceptions of Latin religious 'errors', Tia M. Kolbaba
Part 5 The Tools of Argument
Dyophysite florilegia of the 5th and 6th centuries CE, Marcel Richard
The saint, the scholar and the astrologer: a study of hagiographical themes in some 'question and answer' collections of the 5th-7th centuries CE, Gilbert Dagron
The first Christian Summa Theologiae in Arabic: Christian Kalam in 9th-century Palestine, Sidney H. Griffith
Communal identity and the systematisation of knowledge in the Syriac 'cause of all causes', G.J. Reinink
Abdallah ibn al-Fadl's exposition of the Orthodox faith, Ramy Wannous
Index