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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... Augustine, the scriptorium of Jerome in his Bethlehem monastery.” George Lawless Augustinian Patristic Institute and Gregorian University, Rome “We are pleased to witness publication of the Ancient Christian.
... Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, ©1990-. Used by permission of the Augustinian Heritage Institute, Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Selected excerpts from Arator's On the Acts of the Apostles, edited by Richard Shrader, ©1987. Used ...
... Augustine and Bede) and from other literary genres. Out of a surfeit of resulting raw materials, the volume editors have been invited to select the best, wisest and most representative reflections of ancient Christian writers on a given ...
... Augustine owned by North Africans. These minds are the common possession of the whole church. The Orthodox do not ... Augustinian Patristic Institute of Rome. The New Testament series is inaugurated with the volume on Matthew offered by ...
... Augustine, Ephrem, Gerontius, Paulinus of Nola and many anonymous writers (of the Lives of Mary of Egypt, Thais, Pelagia). 8Whose voice is heard through her younger brother, Gregory of Nyssa. 9Funk & Wagnalls New “Standard” Dictionary ...
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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 |