The Blackwell Companion to Patristics (Blackwell Companions to Religion)

by Ken Parry

Publisher:

John Wiley

, 2015

Overview

This comprehensive volume brings together a team of distinguished scholars to create a wide-ranging introduction to patristic authors and their contributions to not only theology and spirituality, but to philosophy, ecclesiology, linguistics, hagiography, liturgics, homiletics, iconology, and other fields.

Challenges accepted definitions of patristics and the patristic period – in particular questioning the Western framework in which the field has traditionally been constructed

Includes the work of authors who wrote in languages other than Latin and Greek, including those within the Coptic, Armenian, Syriac, and Arabic Christian traditions

Examines the reception history of prominent as well as lesser-known figures, debating the role of each, and exploring why many have undergone periods of revived interest

Offers synthetic accounts of a number of topics central to patristic studies, including scripture, scholasticism, and the Reformation

Demonstrates the continuing role of these writings in enriching and inspiring our understanding of Christianity

Key Features

• Examines the reception history of prominent.
• Provides definitions of patristics and the patristic period.
• Enriches and inspires our understanding of Christianity

Product Details

• Title: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics
• Author: Ken Parry
• Series: Blackwell Companions to Religion
• Publisher: John Wiley
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Pages: 546
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• ISBNs: 9781118438718, 111843871X
• Resource ID: LLS:WLYBLCKWPTRSTCS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-14T00:23:07Z

About Ken Parry

Ken Parry is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He researches and publishes in the fields of late antiquity, Byzantine studies, and Eastern Christianity. He is the founding editor of the series Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, and editor of The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (1999), The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity (2007), and co-editor of Byzantium, Its Neighbours and Its Cultures (2014).