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Mary and the fathers of the church : the Blessed Virgin Mary in patristic thought
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Uniform Title
Maria nel pensiero dei padri della Chiesa. English
Title
Mary and the fathers of the church : the Blessed Virgin Mary in patristic thought / Luigi Gambero ; translated by Thomas Buffer.
ISBN
0898706866
9780898706864
Published
San Francisco : Ignatius Press, ©1999.
Physical Description
439 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
"The book contains extensive and numerous citations from the works of those men who developed the defining Christological and Mariological positions that, throughout the ages, have constituted the central and foundational doctrinal teaching of the Church. Each chapter concludes with an extended reading from the works of the patristic authors. A number of these texts have never before been published in English."--Jacket.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 06, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
From the Apostolic Age to the Council of Nicaea (325). The Apostolic Fathers ; The New Testament apocrypha ; The second-century apologists ; Irenaeus of Lyons ; Beginnings of Marian doctrine in the Latin church : Tertullian ; Two great masters of the school of Alexandria : Clement of Alexandria and Origen ; Mary in the early church in Rome ; The end of the ante-Nicene era
From the Council of Nicaea to the Council of Ephesus (431). Athanasius of Alexandria (d. 373) ; Ephrem the Syrian (ca. 306-373) ; Epiphanius of Salamis (d. 403) ; Cyril of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem catecheses ; The Cappadocian fathers : Basil of Caesarea (d. 379) ; Gregory of Nyssa (d. ca. 394) ; Gregory Nazianzen (d. 390) ; Amphilochius of Iconium (d. after 394) ; John Chrysostom (d. 407) ; Latin Christianity : Hilary of Poitiers (d. 367)
Ambrose of Milan (d. 397) ; Jerome (d. 419) ; Augustine of Hippo (d. 430)
From the Council of Ephesus to the fifth century. Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444) ; Proclus of Constantinople (d. 446) ; Theodotus of Ancyra (d. before 446) ; A homily on the Annunciation (fourth century) ; Caelius Sedulius (d. ca. 440-450) ; Peter Chrysologus (ca. 380-ca. 450) ; Leo the Great (d. 461) ; Severus of Antioch (ca. 465-ca. 538)
The end of the patristic period (sixth-eighth century). Romanos the Melodist (d. ca. 560) ; The "Akathist" hymn (fifth-sixth century) ; Gregory of Tours (d. 594) ; Venantius Fortunatus (d. ca. 600) ; Gregory the Great (ca. 540-604) ; Isidore of Seville (ca. 560-636) ; The iconoclast crisis (725-843) ; Germanus of Constantinople (d. ca. 733) ; Andrew of Crete (d. ca. 740) ; John Damascene (d. ca. 750).
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