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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... Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses, The Classics of Western Spirituality, ©1978. Used by permission of Paulist Press, Mahwah, New Jersey, <www.paulistpress.com>. Selected excerpts from The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for ...
... Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Palladius, 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 ...
... Gregory of Nyssa. The Life of Moses. Translated by A.J. Malherbe and E. Ferguson. Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 1978. W. Jaeger, ed. Gregorii Nysseni Opera. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1952. Ephrem the Syrian. Hymns ...
... Gregory of Nyssa) and that by his risen humanity we are given immortality (Gregory of Nyssa). Augustine, typically, comes to grips. 30 Acts 2:22-36 Peter Discourses on the Resurrection Acts 2:22-36.
Volume 5 Francis Martin, Thomas C. Oden. given immortality (Gregory of Nyssa). Augustine, typically, comes to grips with the statement that Jesus is the “firstborn of the dead”1 in the light of the resurrection of the “saints” recorded ...
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 |