Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
Language: English
Pages: 3057
ISBN: 0830829431
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
2014 Midwest Publishing Association Award of Excellence (Scholarly/Reference) 2014 Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention The Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity covers eight centuries of the Christian church and comprises 3,220 entries by a team of 266 scholars from 26 countries representing a variety of Christian traditions. It draws upon such fields as archaeology, art and architecture, biography, cultural studies, ecclesiology, geography, history, philosophy, and theology. This three-volume encyclopedia offers unparalleled, comprehensive coverage of the people, places and ideas of ancient Christianity, including:
- cultural currents
- events and movements
- philosophy
- iconography and architecture
- archaeology
- texts and translations
- theological terms
- doctrines
- liturgy
- spirituality
- monasticism
- Christian sects
- heresies
- controversies
- councils
The encyclopedia's A-to-Z coverage extends from "Aaron (iconography)" to "Zosimus, pope" and chronologically from Christianity's origins to Bede (d. 735) in the West and John of Damascus (d. ca. 749) in the Greek East, with detailed emphasis on the first four centuries of Christian history. Its geographical range reaches across:
- North Africa
- Mauretania
- Numidia
- Africa Proconsularis Byzacena
- Libya
- Egypt
- Nubia
- Ethiopia
- Asia
- Adiabene
- Armenia
- Bithynia & Pontus
- Georgia
- Cappadocia
- Lycia and Pamphylia
- Phrygia
- Syria
- Mesopotamia
- Arabia
- Palestine
- Persia
- China
- Europe
- Gaul
- Spain & Portugal
- Italy
- Germany
- Britain and Ireland
- Scotland
- Pannonia
- Dalmatia
- Macedonia
- Moesia
- Thrace
- Cyprus
- Crete
This edition updates and expands on previous Italian and English-language editions with the addition of more than 500 new articles (added to the current Italian or English edition), including the following 30 articles exclusive to IVP's edition:
- apostolic see
- Capua
- Carmen de synodo Ticinensi
- China
- cosmopolitanism
- death
- diakonia/diaconate
- Dialogi de sancta Trinitate IV-V
- doorkeeper (porter)
- dynamis/energeia
- eternity
- forgiveness
- freedom/free will
- good
- Hierotheus
- incubatio
- infinity/infinitude
- libelli miraculorum
- love
- Mara bar Serapion (letter of)
- oikeiosis
- old age
- presanctified
- Serapeion (Serapeum)
- subdeacon
- Theosebia
- Triumphus Christi heroicus
- Tychon
- unity
- Virgo Parens
Extensive cross-referencing provides ease in exploring related articles, and helpful bibliographies, including primary sources (texts, critical editions, translations) and key secondary sources (books and journal articles), give access to the very latest in-depth scholarship in countless disciplines of study. IVP's new Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity (2014) is translated from Nuovo dizionario patristico e di antichita cristiane (2006-2008), produced by the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, the world's foremost center for partristic studies, under the direction of Professor Angelo Di Berardino, and it greatly updates and expands the 1992 Encyclopedia of the Early Church (Oxford University Press/James Clarke).
on the island of Lesbos upon returning from a trip to Constantinople, where he had gone to ask for help in the plague and famine that menaced ANEMIUS (d. 382/391). Bishop of *Sirmium. FerCrete. The Eastern church venerates him as a saint. vent anti-*Arian, at the death of *Germinius (ca. Famous as the creator of a *liturgical canon widely 376) he was imposed by *Ambrose as bishop of Sirpopular in *Byzantium and throughout his sphere mium, in the context of a coordinated fight against of influence
monks should not be confused with the so-called *Audiani—a confusion probably due to *Augustine (Haer. 50; RAC 1,450), who also mentions the anthropomorphites elsewhere (Ep. 148,4,13; Epist. fund. 23,25). Finally, two further developments of anthropomorphism are noteworthy: in the East, arguments used in the 4th- and 8th-c. iconoclast controversies recall the same theology of God’s image disputed in the conflict between “simple” and “allegorizers”; and in the West Augustine, while rejecting the
rich receives the poor (August., Serm. 14,4-5), or the hand itself of the poor person for someone who gives him the fruits of his fast (Peter Chrys., Serm. 8); those who rest in it are the righteous who “participate in the things revealed to him” (Orig., Com Jo. XXXII, 266), believers like him, who was himself a believer (Orig., Fr. XIV in Jo). DSp 1,110; RAC 1, 18-28; TRE 1, 372-382 (with ample bibl.); B. Botte, Abraham dans la liturgie, Cahiers Sion 5 (1951) 88-95; J. Daniélou, Abraham dans la
*monophysites. They are described in the quaest. 30 of ps.-*Caesarius. The agnoetae carried the doctrine of *Severus of Antioch to its ultimate consequences, preaching on the basis of Mk 13:32, Jn 11:34 AGRAPHON and Lk 2:52 that Christ did not have perfect knowledge but, like all human beings, was subject to ignorance (*Leontius Scholasticus—who likens them to the Theodosians, Sect. V,6; X,3: PG 86, 1232.12611264). *Timothy of Constantinople lists them among the *Diacrinomeni as the fifth
Agricius’s episcopate as the tutor of Crispus. Feast containing agrapha do not intend to alter what is of- 19 January (previously 13). fered by an examination of Christ’s words in the ca- AASS, 1 Jan 773-781 (legendary biography); J. Marx, Der Biononical gospels. The largest collection of agrapha, in graph des Bischofs Agricius: Wetd. Zeitschr. für Geschichte und the broad sense of the term—i.e., passages cited as Kunst 12 (1982) 37-50; L. Duchesne, Fastes épisc. III, 35; DHGE scriptural by some