The Apostolic Age in Patristic Thought

by Hilhorst, A.

• ISBN13: 9789004126114
• ISBN10: 9004126112
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This volume deals with how Christians of the first centuries looked back on the period of the nascent Church. Thanks to the incomparable stature of its founder, Jesus Christ, who had descended from heaven and commissioned his Apostles, this period was authorative for all Christians in matters of doctrine, institutions, rites and morality, a new phenomenon in the Graeco-Roman world. Its implications are explored in sixteen essays dealing with various subjects such as liturgy, the canon of Scriptures, the role of miracles, art, monasticism, and ministry. All contributions, taking into account both the views of individual Church fathers and Gnostic and Manichaean texts, make a large amount of primary material available.

Author Biography

A. Hilhorst, Ph.D. (1976) in Classics, University of Nijmegen, was Lecturer in New Testament at Groningen University until 2003. He is the secretary of the Journal for the Study of Judaism, and has published on early Jewish and Christian literature

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Abbreviations	xiii
Origin and Early History of the Apostolic Office	1	(10)
Theodore Korteweg
The Eucharist as a Love-meal (agape) in Didache 9--10, and Its Development in the Pauline and in the Syrian Tradition	11	(17)
Joseph Ysebaert
Romantic Fantasies: Early Christians Looking Back on the Apostolic Period	28	(13)
Ton Hilhorst
The Notion απoστoλικoζ: A Terminological Survey	41	(10)
Peter Van Deun
Miracles Recalling the Apostolic Age	51	(12)
Jan Den Boeft
Liturgy on the Authority of the Apostles	63	(23)
Gerard Rouwhorst
La tradition apostolique et le canon du Nouveau Testament	86	(18)
Riemer Roukema
Witnesses and Mediators of Christ's Gnostic Teachings	104	(11)
Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
Die Apostolizitat der kirchlichen Verkundigung bei Irenaus von Lyon	115	(15)
H. S. Benjamins
Origen's View of Apostolic Tradition	130	(9)
Fred Ledegang
The Paraclete Mani as the Apostle of Jesus Christ and the Origins of a New Church	139	(19)
Johannes van Oort
The Apostolic World of Thought in Early Christian Iconography	158	(36)
Arnold Provoost
The Era of the Apostles According to Eusebius' History of the Church	194	(10)
Adelbert Davids
Monks: The Ascetic Movement as a Return to the Aetas Apostolica	204	(15)
G. J. M. Bartelink
Primum enim omnes docebant: Awareness of Discontinuity in the Early Church: The Case of Ecclesiastical Office	219	(9)
B. Dehandschutter
Urbs beata Jerusalem: Saint Augustin sur Jerusalem	228
Antoon A. R. Bastiaensen
Indexes
Index of References	243
Index of Names and Subjects	249
Index of Greek and Latin Words	252
Index of Modern Authors	253