Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics

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).

• Preface xNotes on Contributors xiPart I Introduction 11 The Nature and Scope of Patristics 3Ken ParryPart II Collecting the Fathers 132 Byzantine Florilegia 15Alexander Alexakis3 Modern Patrologies 51Angelo Di BerardinoPart III Studies in Reception History I: Individual Fathers 694 Irenaeus of Lyons 71Denis Minns5 Clement of Alexandria 84Piotr Ashwin‐Siejkowski6 Origen of Alexandria 98Mark Edwards7 Athanasius of Alexandria 111David M. Gwynn8 Ephrem of Nisibis 126Andrew Palmer9 John Chrysostom 141Wendy Mayer10 Augustine of Hippo 155Kazuhiko Demura11 Cyril of Alexandria 170Hans van Loon12 Shenoute of Atripe 184Janet Timbie13 Nestorius of Constantinople 197George Bevan14 Dionysius the Areopagite 211István Perczel15 Severus of Antioch 226Youhanna Nessim Youssef16 Gregory the Great 238Bronwen Neil17 Maximos the Confessor 250Andrew Louth18 John of Damascus 264Vassilis Adrahtas19 Gregory of Narek 278Abraham Terian20 Gregory Palamas 293Marcus PlestedPart IV Studies in Reception History II: Collective Fathers 30721 The Cappadocian Fathers 309H. Ashley Hall22 The Desert Fathers and Mothers 326John Chryssavgis23 The Iconophile Fathers 338Vladimir BaranovPart V Studies in the Fathers 35324 Scripture and the Fathers 355Paul Blowers25 Hagiography of the Greek Fathers 370Stephanos Efthymiadis26 Liturgies and the Fathers 385Hugh Wybrew27 Fathers and the Church Councils 400Richard Price28 The Fathers and Scholasticism 414James R. Ginther29 The Fathers and the Reformation 428Irena Backus30 The Fathers in Arabic 442Alexander Treiger31 The Greek of the Fathers 456Klaas Bentein32 The Latin of the Fathers 471Carolinne White33 Reimagining Patristics: Critical Theory as a Lens 487Kim Haines‐EitzenIndex 497

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