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Title God in early Christian thought : essays in memory of Lloyd G. Patterson / edited by Andrew B. McGowan, Brian E. Daley & Timothy J. Gaden
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 407 pages)
Series Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 0920-623X ; v. 94
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 94.
Contents Who is the Demiurge? : Irenaeus' picture of God in Adversus haereses 2 / Richard A. Norris -- God beyond knowing : Clement of Alexandria and discourse / Annewies van den Hoek -- God in early Latin theology : Tertullian and the Trinity / Andrew B. McGowan -- Knowing God in the Theological orations of Gregory of Nazianzus : the heritage of Origen / Joseph W. Trigg -- God and Methodius : use of, and background to, the term aprosdeēs as a description of God in the works or Methodius of Olympus / Katherina Bracht -- Patristic exegesis and the arithmetic of the divine from the Apologists to Athanasius / James D. Ernest -- The Holy Spirit in Gregory Nazianzen : the pneumatology of Oration 31 / Christopher A. Beeley -- Divine semiotics and the way to the triune God in Augustine's De Trinitatis / Khaled Anatolios -- Ephrem's doctrine of God / Ute Possekel -- Trinitarian theology in early Christian anaphoras / Robert J. Daly -- Theophany and the invisible God in early Christian theology and art / Robin M. Jensen -- God and the poor in early Christian thought / Susan R. Holman -- The persons in God and the person of Christ in patristic theology : an argument for parallel development / Brian E. Daley -- God and storms in early Christian thought / Robert M. Grant
Summary These essays use particular issues, thinkers and texts to engage the question of God in early Christianity. They include studies of doctrine, and of understandings drawn from liturgy, art, and asceticism, and regarding the social order and nature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-373) and index
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Subject God (Christianity) -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General.
God (Christianity) -- History of doctrines
Geschichtstheologie
Gott
Gottesvorstellung
Kirchenväter
Patristik
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Patterson, L. G. (Lloyd George), 1929-1999.
McGowan, Andrew Brian, 1961-
Daley, Brian E., 1940-
Gaden, Timothy J
ISBN 9789047427582
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