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1. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Francesco Berno The Nag Hammadi Reception of 1 Enoch. Some Preliminary Remarks and a Case Study: A Valentinian Exposition (NHC XI, 2; CPG 1216; CC 0669)
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The present article aims at providing a preliminary analysis of the literary and doctrinal relationship between the Nag Hammadi corpus and the Greek translation of 1 Enoch. The first section is devoted to examining the manuscript evidence for the Coptic reception of the Enochic dictate. The second part offers a more specific survey of this debated issue of the Valentinian Exposition (NHC XI, 2) and the so-called Liturgical Fragments (NHC XI, 2a-e).
2. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Boris Paschke Die Brüsseler Handschrift 8232-33: Ein griechischer Textzeuge für die Metastasis des Apostels Johannes
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The seventeenth-century Brussels manuscript 8232-33 is an extant Greek witness for the Metastasis of the apostle John. The seminal text edition of the apocryphal Acts of John by Eric Junod and Jean-Daniel Kaestli provides neither a siglum for, nor a comprehensive codicological description of, nor catalogue references concerning this manuscript. The present annotation makes this information available and analyzes the manuscript of the Metastasis with regard to its model, copyist, and time of origin.
3. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Juri Leoni Gli epigrammi di Papa Damaso e Roma Christiana
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This article aims through a study of the epigraphy of Pope Damasus (366-384), to reconstruct the ideal society that was shown to the pilgrim who went to the loca sanctorum in the Urbs. Taking into account the pastoral, political and ideological elements of Damasian epigraphy, it shows that the choice of martyrs and subjects which were celebrated responded to the increasing numbers of nobles within Roman Christian society after the peace of Constantine. Damasus tried to accommodated himself to the sensibilities of the minor aristocracy of Rome and the emerging clergy, without renouncing its hierarchical organization of the Church in line with the social and ecclesial tendencies of the second half of the fourth century, when Roma christiana came into being.
4. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Chiara Spuntarelli L’uso politico di Aristofane in Giovanni Crisostomo
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This article begins by analysing the homily Quod frequenter conveniendum sit, in which John Chrysostom represents himself as Elijah, in a way shaped politically by his years in Constantinople and his amazing project of building a Christian/gospel-based politeia. His representation is marked by the idea of philanthropia and in competition with similar ideas found in Neo-Platonic contexts. The article suggests that this representation is replayed in a polemical key in John’s circles to represent the clash with Eudoxia. The use of the verb κωμῳδέω in the spurious In ss. Petrum et Heliam offers a window onto the strategy of the supporters of the deposed bishop of reworking this identification of John with Elijah; this shows that the image of himself as monk, martyr and also persecuted prophet, which Chrysostom had constructed of in his years of exile, was welcomed and adopted by others.
5. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Giuseppe Peressotti Demonologia in area aquileiese
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The present work focuses on some particular demonological texts attributed to Fortunatianus (mid-IV century) and Chromatius (between the IV and the V century), both bishops of Aquileia. It also includes Victorinus, bishop of Poetovium (in present-day Slovenia, second half of the III century), who shared the same geographical-cultural milieu of the Aquilean bishops. We have considered primarily their biblical commentaries and, in the case of Chromatius, also his liturgical sermons. In these texts, the devil is characterized by a broad range of expressions in relation to his spiritual struggle against humanity, a struggle already won by Jesus and now entrusted to Christians. The three bishops highlight both the devil’s ability to deceive the sons of God, leading them to idolatry and heresy, and also the victory over him achieved by means of evangelical preaching.
6. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Miryam De Gaetano Nell’attesa del Giorno. Il contesto storico-culturale del Carmen de resurrectione
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The aim of this study is to determine the historical and cultural context of the pseudoepigraphic Carmen de resurrectione. The Carmen treats poetically many subjects of Christian eschatology: the second coming of Christ, the final judgement, heaven and hell, the universal conflagration. The author believes that the end time is imminent. This perception is common to all the Christians who experienced tribulations: persecutions, natural calamities, barbarian invasions. These painful events urged the Christians to undertake a path of true conversion, in the religious and moral sense. Unlike other poets (Commodianus, Verecundus), the Anonymous author emphasises the virtuous value of the hope of divine reward rather than the fear of divine punishment. The same perspective can be found in the poets and in the monks of early fifth-century Gaul, who suffered the barbarian invasion of 406.
7. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Jerzy Szafranowski The Life of the Jura Fathers and the Monastic Clergy
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This article challenges the belief – popular in modern scholarship – in the predominantly lay character of monastic communities before the 7th century. A closer look at the early 6th century Life of the Jura Fathers shows monasteries rich in monks who were at the same time presbyters and deacons. The paper investigates the reasons behind the clerical ordinations of monks and examines the various roles of presbyters and deacons in their monasteries. Finally, it considers the ways in which the ordained monks could have destabilized the community and the measures employed to counter their negative influence.
8. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Alberto Ferreiro Braulio of Zaragoza’s Letters on Mourning
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Braulio of Zaragoza (c. 585/595-651) was one of the most prolific writers of seventh century Visigothic Spain. The collection of 44 letters that he wrote are a unique and rich depository of information for that era and region of western Christendom. He was a personal adviser to three Visigothic kings, Chinthila and Chindasvinth and Reccesvinth, and he correspondended with his renowned contemporary Isidore of Seville. This study focuses on the letters that he directed at people who had lost a loved one and who needed consolation in their moment of mourning. The letters do not reveal anything about funerary burial practices, but they do yield a rare personal glimpse of what the Church taught about mourning the dead. Personal letters by their very nature are a literary means where peopleexpress their intimate feelings, in this case both those who were the recipients and Braulio who wrote to them. We see the Bishop of Zaragoza at his pastoral best in the letters of consolation written to family and friends who were mourning.
adnotationes
9. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Pierluigi Leone Gatti Much Ado about Nothing: An Answer to B. D. Shaw’s The Myth of the Neronian Persecution
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In recent years, the veracity of the tradition of the martyrdom of the apostles Peter and Paul has been disputed; recently, Brent Donald Shaw denied the historicity of the persecution of Christians. In this article, the author analyzes the texts of Tacitus and Suetonius as well as other texts omitted by Shaw and demonstrates the inconsistency of the hypotheses put forward by negationist scholars (Zwierlein; Shaw) from a theoretical and historical point of view.
10. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Patricio de Navascués Nota a Ireneo, Adversus Haereses 1, 1, 1: Fuisse in immensis aeonibus
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At the beginning of Irenaeus of Lyons’ Adversus Haereses, the doctrine of the Valentinian Ptolemy is presented using terms from the semantic field of time and eternity, which were undergoing a semantic evolution in contemporary Middle Platonic philosophy. These allow us to identify three phases, from a chronological point of view, at the beginning of the Valentinian myth: strict, supra-durational, eternity – eternity of indefinite duration – moment ante tempus.
11. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Maria Antonietta Barbàra La «ricchezza»: Gr. Nyss., Eccl. 7, 4 (SCh 416, 358)
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Gregory of Nyssa’s bearing in Qohelet 3:5b to wealth, rather than to the matrimonial “embrace”, is unusual by comparison withother ancient exegeses; it seems to be motivated not only by the acoluthia which characterizes his spiritual interpretation of the passage Qo. 3:2-8 (Sandro Leanza), but also by the crucial importance he gives to catharsis, as one the qualities he considered necessary for the exegete.
12. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Vittorino Grossi Per una rilettura dei Tempora Christiana in Agostino d’Ippona
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The phrase tempora christiana in Augustine has been studied from various points of view. This article illuminates the way in which it refers to the care of divine providence for individuals and society in the period when true worship is rendered to God through the Christian religion. Furthermore, we find Augustine proposing, using the idea of kairós, i.e. a new opportunity to be embraced, to create a new cycle of the human story, to which everyone will contribute.
13. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Agapit Gbegnon Signification du verbe κατέρχομαι dans la doctrine sur Marc le Mage (Adv. Haer. 1, 13, 3, linn. 56-58)
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The verbal form κατέλθῇ, which appears in the passage of Adv. Haer. 1, 13, 3, linn. 56-58, in which Irenaeus presents the Marcosian doctrine, is usually translated as to descend, following the old Latin version (cf. descendat). However, in another place in the work of Irenaeus himself, this verb receives other translations. This note shows how it may be much better to translate the verb κατέρχομαι in AH 1, 13, 3, linn. 56-58 by devenire, redere.
recensiones
14. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Juan Antonio Cabrera Montero Escritos medievales en honor del obispo Isidoro de Sevilla, introducción, traducción, índices y notas por José Carlos Martín-Iglesias
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15. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Silvia Mas Jérôme, Douze homélies sur des sujets divers, introduction, traduction et notes par J.-L. Gourdain
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Giuseppe Caruso Teodoreto di Cirro, Commento alle Lettere di Paolo, ed. P. Perretti
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Paul Graham Rowan Williams, Christ the Heart of Creation
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18. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
José Raúl Mena Seifert José Alberto Hernández Ibáñez, Patrología didáctica
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Florence Bret Nihil veritas erubescit. Mélanges offerts à Paul Mattei par ses élèves, collègues et amis, édités par Clementine Bernard-Valette, Jeremy Delmulle & Camille Gerzaguet
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20. Augustinianum: Volume > 59 > Issue: 1
Bazyli Degórski Paweł Sambor, La participation sacramentelle: une entrée dans la dynamique de la vie divine d’après les Sermons au Peuple de saint Augustin, prefazione M. Klöckener
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