Acts: Volume 5Francis Martin, Thomas C. Oden InterVarsity Press, 2014 M02 19 - 368 pages The Acts of the Apostles—or more in keeping with the author's intent, the Acts of the Ascended Lord—is part two of Luke's story of "all that Jesus began to do and teach." In it he recounts the expansion of the church as its witness spread from Jerusalem to all of Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. While at least forty early church authors commented on Acts, the works of only three survive in their entirety—John Chrysostom's Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, Bede the Venerable's Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles and a long Latin epic poem by Arator. In this Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume, substantial selections from the first two of these appear with occasional excerpts from Arator alongside many excerpts from the fragments preserved in J. A. Cramer's Catena in Acta SS. Apostolorum. Among the latter we find selections from Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, Ephrem the Syrian, Didymus the Blind, Athanasius, Jerome, John Cassian, Augustine, Ambrose, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Theodoret of Cyr, Origen, Cyril of Jerusalem, Cyril of Alexandria, Cassiodorus, and Hilary of Poitiers, some of which are here translated into English for the first time. As readers, we find these early authors transmit life to us because their faith brought them into living and experiential contact with the realities spoken of in the sacred text. |
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... Arator's On the Acts of the Apostles, edited by Richard Shrader, ©1987. Used by permission of the American Academy of Religion. Selected excerpts from Origen, Contra Celsum, translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Chadwick ...
... Arator's On the Acts of the Apostles. Edited and translated by Richard J. Schrader. Translated by Joseph L. Roberts III and John F. Makowski. The American Academy of Religion Classics in Religious Studies 6. Atlanta: Scholars Press ...
... Arator (d. 550), a subdeacon of Rome, consisting of 2,326 hexameters and covering the whole book.13 Its relevance to our purposes is minimal. We cite him once in a while to give the reader an idea of the culture of that time as well as ...
... Lawrence T. Martin, CS 117 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1989), and Arator's On the Acts of the Apostles. 19For some recent discussions of the fathers of the church, xliii Introduction to the Acts of the Apostles.
... Arator were made by Ms. Amy Rojek, and the Chrysostom passages finally selected were brought into a more colloquial English on the basis of the Greek text of Chrysostom's homilies supplied to us by Rev. Francis Gignac and Ms. Jie Yuan ...
Contents
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Early Christian Writers and the Documents Cited | 320 |
Biographical Sketches Short Descriptions of Select Anonymous Works | 325 |
Timeline of Writers of the Patristic Period | 349 |
Bibliography of Works in English Traslation | 362 |
AuthorsWritings Index | 367 |
Subject Index | 368 |
Scripture Index | 376 |
About the Editor | 381 |
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture | 382 |
More Titles from InterVarsity Press | 383 |
Bibliography of Works in Original Languages | 356 |