On Pascha : With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans

by Melito; Stewart-Sykes, Alistair

• ISBN13: 9780881412178
• ISBN10: 0881412171
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(1)
Melito	1	(8)
On Pascha	9	(3)
Sardis	12	(2)
Melito the sophist	14	(4)
The Quartodeciman liturgy and Melito's On Pascha	18	(5)
The Fast	18	(1)
The Vigil	19	(1)
The Celebration	20	(3)
The Quartodeciman Pascha and the Jewish Pesah	23	(2)
Melito's anti-Judaism	25	(3)
The Theology of Melito	28	(6)
Melito's doctrine of God in Christ	28	(2)
Eschatology	30	(1)
Typology	31	(3)
Conclusion: Melito's liturgical theology	34	(3)
Melito of Sardis ON PASCHA	37	(32)
THE FRAGMENTS AND OTHER MATERIAL	69	(28)
The Fragments	69	(10)
Fragment 1	69	(2)
Fragment 3	71	(2)
Fragment 4	73	(1)
Fragment 7	73	(1)
Fragment 8b	73	(3)
Fragments 9-11	76	(2)
Fragment 17	78	(1)
Testimonies to Melito from later authors	79	(2)
From Eusebius	79	(1)
From Jerome	80	(1)
Selections from other authors concerning Quartodeciman practice	81	(16)
Apollinarius	81	(1)
Hippolytus	82	(2)
Eusebius' account of the Quartodeciman controversy at Rome at the end of the second century	84	(7)
From the Life of Polycarp, 1	91	(1)
A selection from the Syrian Didascalia, 21	92	(2)
From Theodoret's Compendium of Heretical Tales, 3.4	94	(1)
Epistula Apostolorum 15	95	(2)
Bibliography	97	(6)
Index	103