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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... bodies of literature, seeking a fitting balance from all available exegetical traditions of ancient Christianity within our time frame. To all these we added the material we could find already in English translation. 3Excepting those ...
... body of Christ. From many varied Christian traditions this project has enlisted as volume editors a team of leading international scholars in ancient Christian writings and the history of exegesis. Among Eastern Orthodox contributors ...
... body (“the Twelve”) whose directive role is not mentioned until Acts 16:4, and then the term “apostle” no longer occurs in this book. The Story of the Church It is clear that from beginning to end Luke intends to tell the story of the ...
... body of the Word.”39 The sundering of this covenant has left us ignorant of what Frances Young calls “the sacrament of language,” a mode of predication made possible, “[B]ecause the structure of Christian thought revolved around the ...
... bodies show that they live by this means. About to go to heaven, he went forth to walk round the grove of olive because by its sacred bud it is a place of light and peace. He wished to return [to heaven] from that place, from which the ...
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 |