Frances Young is Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham, UK.

• Contents: Introduction; Part A From Exegesis to Hermeneutics: Adam and Anthropos: a study of the interaction of science and the Bible in two anthropological treatises of the 4th century; John Chrysostom on first and second Corinthians; Allegory and atonement; The rhetorical schools and their influence on patristic exegesis; The 4th century reaction against allegory; Allegory and the ethics of reading; From suspicion and sociology to spirituality: on method, hermeneutics and appropriation with respect to patristic material; The Apostolic Constitutions: a methodological case-study; On episcopos and presbyteros; Ministerial forms and functions in the Church communities of the Greek Fathers; Exegetical method and scriptural proof: the Bible in doctrinal debate; Proverbs 8 in interpretation (2): wisdom personified. Part B From Doctrine to Theology: Paideia and the myth of static dogma; The Confessions of St Augustine: what is the genre of this work?; Did Epiphanius know what he meant by heresy?; Creatio ex nihilo: a context for the emergence of the Christian doctrine of creation; Naked or clothed? Eschatology and the doctrine of creation; Creation and human being: the forging of a distinct Christian discourse; Theotokos: Mary and the pattern of fall and redemption in the theology of Cyril of Alexandria; The God of the Greeks and the nature of religious language; Index.

'... all [the twenty essays and lectures in this volume] are of considerable interest to anyone who is trying to come to grips with the formative period of our shared Christian past.' Ecclesiology

Frances Young is Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham, UK.

• Contents: Introduction; Part A From Exegesis to Hermeneutics: Adam and Anthropos: a study of the interaction of science and the Bible in two anthropological treatises of the 4th century; John Chrysostom on first and second Corinthians; Allegory and atonement; The rhetorical schools and their influence on patristic exegesis; The 4th century reaction against allegory; Allegory and the ethics of reading; From suspicion and sociology to spirituality: on method, hermeneutics and appropriation with respect to patristic material; The Apostolic Constitutions: a methodological case-study; On episcopos and presbyteros; Ministerial forms and functions in the Church communities of the Greek Fathers; Exegetical method and scriptural proof: the Bible in doctrinal debate; Proverbs 8 in interpretation (2): wisdom personified. Part B From Doctrine to Theology: Paideia and the myth of static dogma; The Confessions of St Augustine: what is the genre of this work?; Did Epiphanius know what he meant by heresy?; Creatio ex nihilo: a context for the emergence of the Christian doctrine of creation; Naked or clothed? Eschatology and the doctrine of creation; Creation and human being: the forging of a distinct Christian discourse; Theotokos: Mary and the pattern of fall and redemption in the theology of Cyril of Alexandria; The God of the Greeks and the nature of religious language; Index.

'... all [the twenty essays and lectures in this volume] are of considerable interest to anyone who is trying to come to grips with the formative period of our shared Christian past.' Ecclesiology

Frances Young is Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham, UK.

• Contents: Introduction; Part A From Exegesis to Hermeneutics: Adam and Anthropos: a study of the interaction of science and the Bible in two anthropological treatises of the 4th century; John Chrysostom on first and second Corinthians; Allegory and atonement; The rhetorical schools and their influence on patristic exegesis; The 4th century reaction against allegory; Allegory and the ethics of reading; From suspicion and sociology to spirituality: on method, hermeneutics and appropriation with respect to patristic material; The Apostolic Constitutions: a methodological case-study; On episcopos and presbyteros; Ministerial forms and functions in the Church communities of the Greek Fathers; Exegetical method and scriptural proof: the Bible in doctrinal debate; Proverbs 8 in interpretation (2): wisdom personified. Part B From Doctrine to Theology: Paideia and the myth of static dogma; The Confessions of St Augustine: what is the genre of this work?; Did Epiphanius know what he meant by heresy?; Creatio ex nihilo: a context for the emergence of the Christian doctrine of creation; Naked or clothed? Eschatology and the doctrine of creation; Creation and human being: the forging of a distinct Christian discourse; Theotokos: Mary and the pattern of fall and redemption in the theology of Cyril of Alexandria; The God of the Greeks and the nature of religious language; Index.

'... all [the twenty essays and lectures in this volume] are of considerable interest to anyone who is trying to come to grips with the formative period of our shared Christian past.' Ecclesiology