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1 online resource |
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Oxford early Christian studies |
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Oxford early Christian studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; A Brief Retrospect and Prospectus; Pursuing a Comprehensive Approach to the Early Christian Vision of Creator and Creation; 2. Legacies of Greco-Roman Cosmological Wisdom; Infinite Universe versus Closed World; Did the Divine Create the World or Merely Invest Nature with Order?; Myth and Metaphysics in Plato's Cosmogony; The Quest for "First Principles" (Archai); Summary: Christianity and the Challenges of Greco-Roman Cosmology; 3. Legacies of Hellenistic-Jewish Cosmological Wisdom; Wisdom and the Teleology of Creation |
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God, the Logos (Wisdom), and the Mediation of Creation in PhiloPhilo's Model of Divine Creation of the World; How Creation Had a Beginning; Simultaneous" and "Double" Creation; Creation from Formless Matter: ex nihilo, aeterna, continua?; Will Creation Endure Eternally?; Summary: Christianity and the Legacies of Hellenistic-Jewish Cosmology; 4. The Shaping of Normative Discourse about Creator and Creation in Pre-Nicene Christianity; The Narrative Framework for Normative Discourse about Creator and Creation; Toward Normative Doctrinal Formulations about Creator and Creation |
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Competing Worldviews and the Early Christian Interpretation of the Creator's OikonomiaEarly Developments; Confuting Gnostic Cosmogonies and Educing the Divine Oikonomia; Creator and Creation in the Refutation of Marcionism; Summary: Between Narrative and Theological Discourse in the Early Christian Commitment to Creator and Creation; 5. Creation in the Mirror of Scripture I: Patristic Approaches to the Genesis Creation Story; The Tapestry of Biblical Witnesses to Creator and Creation; Genesis 1-3 as Prophecy; Differentiated Senses and the "Literal" Meaning for the Church |
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The Variety and Scope of Patristic Commentary on the HexaemeronGenre as a Key to Interpretive Approach; Analytical Commentary on the Hexaemeron; Three Cardinal Test Cases of Analytical Hexaemeral Interpretation; Doxological and Devotional Commentary on the Hexaemeron; Summary: Genesis 1 as a Tableau of the Divine Economy; 6. Toward a Christian Theology of the Beginning (and End) of the World; "In the Beginning"; Patristic Perspectives on "Simultaneous" and "Double" Creation; Early Developments; Gregory of Nyssa: Potentiality, Actuality, and Creation's Diastemic Frontier |
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Augustine: Simultaneous Creation, the Rationes Seminales, and the Divine Administration of the CosmosMaximus the Confessor: The Protologically and Eschatologically Simultaneous "Incarnation" of the Logos (Christ) in the Logoi of Creation; Creation ex nihilo and Creation ex Deo; The Interpretive Complexities of Creation ex nihilo; Refuting the Eternity of Matter and Upholding Divine Omnipotence; Creation ex nihilo and the Teleology of Creation; Creation ex nihilo as Creation "from God"; Summary: The Beginning of the World in the Divine Economy |
| Summary |
An introduction to the multiplex relation between creator and creation as an object both of theological construction and religious devotion in the early church |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 31, 2012) |
| Subject |
Creation -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
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Piety -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191745980 |
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0191745987 |
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