The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Patristics, ed. by KEN PARRY

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to
Patristics  Forthcoming!

Edited by KEN PARRY
Draft table of contents

Introduction:


1. The Nature and Scope of Patristics - Ken Parry (Australia)

PART I: Collecting the Fathers:



2. Byzantine Florilegia - Alexander Alexakis (Greece)

3. Modern Patrologies - Angelo Di Berardino (Italy)

PART II: Studies in Reception History I:

Individual Fathers


4. Irenaeus of Lyons - Denis Minns (Australia)

5. Clement of Alexandria - Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski (UK)

6. Origen of Alexandria - Mark Edwards (UK)

7. Athanasius of Alexandria - David Gwynn (UK)

8. Ephraim of Nisibis - Andrew Palmer (Netherlands)

9. John Chrysostom - Wendy Mayer (USA)

10. Augustine of Hippo - Kazuhiko Demura (Japan)

11. Cyril of Alexandria - Hans van Loon (Netherlands)

12. Shenoute of Atripe - Janet Timbie (USA)

13. Nestorius of Antioch - George Bevan (Canada)

14. Dionysius the Areopagite - István Perczel (Hungary)

15. Severus of Antioch - Youhanna Yousif (Australia)

16. Gregory the Great - Bronwen Neil (Australia)

17. Maximus the Confessor - Andrew Louth (UK)

18. John of Damascus - Vassili Adrahtas (Australia)

19. Gregory of Narek - Abraham Terian (USA)

20. Symeon the New Theologian - H. J. M. Turner (UK)

21. Gregory Palamas - Marcus Plested (UK)

PART III: Studies in Reception History II:

Collective Fathers


22. The Apostolic Fathers - Symeon Paschalidis (Greece)

23. The Cappadocian Fathers - H. Ashley Hall (USA)

24. The Desert Fathers and Mothers - John Chryssavgis (USA)



25. The Iconophile Fathers - Vladimir Baranov (Russia)

PART IV: Studies in the Fathers:



26. Scripture and the Fathers - Paul Blowers (USA)

27. Hagiography of the Fathers - Stephanos Efthymiadis (Cyprus)

28. Liturgies of the Fathers - Hugh Wybrew (UK)

29. The Fathers and Church Councils - Richard Price (UK)

30. Scholasticism and the Fathers - James Ginther (USA)

31. The Fathers and the Reformation - Irena Backus (Switzerland)

32. The Fathers in Arabic - Rifaat Ebied (Australia)

33. The Greek of the Fathers - Klaas Bentein (Belgium)

34. The Latin of the Fathers - Carolinne White (UK)

35. Reimagining Patristics - Kim Haines-Eitzen (USA)

Index

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



About the editor

Ken Parry is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Australia. He is editor of The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (Wiley-Blackwell, 1999), and has contributed to numerous books and journals on Byzantine Christianity and the Christian East. He is also the founding editor of the series Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity.



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"Tradition of Theotokos' Adoration in Orthodox Church" - Tbilisi, May 2014

 

International Centre for Christian Studies at the Orthodox Church of Georgia

The Fifth International Symposium

"Tradition of Theotokos' Adoration in Orthodox Church"

Tbilisi, May

 

 

Many  ecclesiastical as well as secular scientists study historic, theological, hymnographical questions and the issues of ecclesiastical art and writing connected with Theotokos in Orthodox Church.

International Symposium - "Tradition of Theotokos' Adoration in Orthodox Church" -  is planned to be held in Tbilisi in May (presumably 12-19 May), 2014 with the  blessing of  His Holiness and Beatitude the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi and Metropolitan of Bichvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazia - Ilia II.

For centuries there have been many cases of visions and miracles connected with Saint Mary Theotokos Mother Of God in our churches, monasteries and on the sacred places; many wonder-worker icons of Mother of God were revealed.

We think that interchange of our churches' experience connected with adoration of Saint Mary Theotokos Mother of God will enrich us informatively as well as spiritually.

According to the Symposium Program, it is planned to visit and see the robe of Theotokos and other clearness and saint places connected with Mother of God.

Please confirm us your participation in the Symposium and send us a presumable title of your report during a month.

Deadline of sending your papers is 30 October, 2013.

Symposium languages are: Georgian, Greek, Russian and English.

Full texts of papers (ready for publishing) must be sent via e-mail to the Organizing Committee no later than November 1, 2013. Papers should be submitted as a word file, A-4, Times New Roman, 12 font, 1.5 space and should not exceed seven pages. Papers must have adequate English translation.

 

 

 

Contact:

35 N. Ramishvili Str., block1/1

Tbilisi, 0179. Georgia

Tel: (+995 32) 25 02 43, (+995 32) 44 77 30.

Website: www.logos.org.ge

E-mail: logos.iccr AT yahoo.com, secretarial AT logos.org.ge

 

Chair of the Organizing Committee:

 Academician David Muskhelishvili

Book launch of Studia Patristica LIII-LXX: papers of the 2011 Oxford conference

The Directors of the 16^th International Conference on Patristic Studies (Oxford, 2011) are delighted that the papers there presented are now published in Studia Patristica volumes LIII – LXX. Thanks to the hard work and efficiency of Peeters Publishers, and of all the co-editors, contributors and peer reviewers, this major undertaking has been completed in under two years from the time of the conference.

Peeters offered the possibility of publishing workshop papers in separate fascicles, and the first 9 volumes, co-edited with the workshop convenors, take up this offer. In the other volumes, papers are grouped by topic as in previous years. The Table of Contents covers all the volumes.

There will be a celebratory book launch, Studia Patristica and Patristic Studies, at Christ Church, Oxford, on Saturday October 19^th 2013, 4-7 p.m. Speakers (tbc) will consider how SP reflects change and continuity in patristic studies.      

Thirteenth International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa

The call for papers for the Thirteenth  International Colloquium on Gregory
of Nyssa is now open. The congress will be held in Rome at the Pontifical
University of the Holy Cross from 17 to 20 September 2014. It will be
focused on the In Canticum canticorum. All practical information can be
found through the conference website:
www.gregoryofnyssa.org
Proposals are due by the end of May 2014. Contact persons: Giulio Maspero
(maspero@pusc.it) and Miguel Brugarolas (mbrugarolas@unav.es).

Remembering Gerald Bonner who died on 22 May 2013

The Directors of the Oxford Conference, meeting on 2 July 2013, remembered with gratitude and affection Gerald Bonner, Reader Emeritus at Durham University (UK) and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Early Christian Studies at the Catholic University of America. He contributed to patristic studies both by his own publications, which included the classic St Augustine of Hippo: life and controversies (1963, rev.ed. 1986), and through his prompt and kindly encouragement of fellow-scholars. He attended the Conference for many years, and it was a sadness that his health did not allow him to be there in 2011. There will be many appreciations of his work: meanwhile, his colleagues at Durham have posted a brief account of his life by his family https://www.dur.ac.uk/theology.religion/about/news/?itemno=18120 

The Proceedings of the XVI. International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford 2011 have appeared

Authors and readers will be pleased to read that I was informed today by the Publisher Peeters, Leuven, that volumes 53 to 70 of Studia Patristica have appeared publishing the proceedings of the XVI. International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford 2011.

First of all I have to thank all contributors who so diligently worked on their papers, did all the revisions, we exchanged over 2,000 emails, send back and forth various versions, but, as it seems, finally we made it.
Thanks also to the fellow directors and all those who have peer reviewed the hundreds of abstracts, the papers, have organized and taken part in the conference, and
thanks also to the publisher, most particularly Mr. Peeters himself with his personal interest and support, and also Dr Bert Verrept who has spend hours on hours to make this enterprise happening. Without their constant support, this publishing venture could not have been achieved. I also thank my family who have supported me in getting the papers published.

So, let us hope that we enjoy reading the results and benefit from our joint endeavour,

yours Markus

International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford 2011 - volumes to appear in short

Dear participants and contributors,

you will hopefully be pleased to read that the volumes of the last International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford 2011, are being printed, as I write, and should be out in the next weeks - I will let you know when I have the printed volumes on the table.
It is a big relief to see the 18 volumes finished (amongst them are special volumes on a whole range of topics) and hope that you will like to see the vitality that Patristic Studies from around the globe has. More about the series soon.