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1. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 2
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2. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 2
Patricio De Navascués Benlloch I Padri della Chiesa e la teologia dogmatica. Alcune considerazioni
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This article offers a series of reflections on the relationship that should exist between the Church Fathers and dogmatic theology. In order not to underplay the indispensable function performed by the Fathers, a function understood in theological and not in historical terms, the dogmatic theologian must stand before them – as Irenaeus stood before the elderly Polycarp – listening and receiving from them the message that, in harmony with the Scriptures and guided by the grace of God, they ought to deepen and con-temporize.
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Clementina Mazzucco I rapporti tra i coniugi nel pensiero dei Padri della Chiesa (I-III sec.)
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The article deals with the views of the Fathers of the Church on relations between husband and wife between the end of the first century and the end of the third century, an age that is less studied in this respect, even though it offers good documentation concerning the subject (particularly in the case of Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria). Four themes are considered: 1. adultery and separation; 2. the conjugal debt; 3. the division of tasks between husband and wife; 4. the faith life of the couple. Different opinions and often original points of view are presented in regard to the lawfulness of the second marriage, the culpability of adultery, the value of sexuality in the marriage and the wife’s subordination to her husband.
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Mª Amparo Mateo Donet Las Actas de los mártires. Una actualización de los Documentos Sobre los Primeros Cristianos
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This paper is an update of the documents we have concerning the Acts of the Christian martyrs, focused on three main aspects: 1) the kind of acts we know of and their classification from the point of view of their historic value; 2) the versions or editions of the texts that are most accepted by scholars; 3) the relevance of the different parts that make up these documents in order to discern the original text from passages that were rewritten or underwent later variations. In this way, the article offers an exhaustive list of the documents for use in researching Christian martyrs in the Roman period.
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Manlio Simonetti Su Origene, Commento a Matteo 17, 1-3; 25-28
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This comment concerns above all the existing relationship between the Greek text that has reached us and the ancient Latin translation of Origen’s Commentary on Matthew, analyzing two passages from the XVII book; that is, the interpretations of Mt. 21,23-27 and Mt. 22, 15-22. The Greek and Latin texts are not always consistent with one another: in most cases the Latin version abbreviates or omits some passages from the Greek, but at times it reveals typical exegetical minutiae from the origenian ratio interpretandi and absent from the incomplete Greek text available to us today, as the Author clearly points out in this study.
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Americo Miranda I ministeri ecclesiastici ed il rapporto tra “temporale” e “spirituale” nell’opera di Giovanni Crisostomo
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Ministers of the Church, whose characters were well defined in the second half of the fourth century, were more and more identified as the perfect believers. In the texts of John Chrysostom several models of “spiritual man” emerge on the basis of his personal experience and the evolution of his works: the monk, the presbyter, and the bishop. One notes that the relation of the Church to secular institutions is of greater importance in the works of Chrysostom, paying as he does particular attention to the autonomy of the Church. In an original way he refrains from criticizing political institutions, preferring to express a balanced view. He holds that a coexistence with political authorities is possible, and he urges a moral conver-gence with them. Ecclesial ministries find a more solid basis in the Chrysostom’s complex and sometimes pained statements, both in their ideal expressions and in their concrete effects on the society of the fourth century.
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Stuart Squires Augustine’s changing Thought on Sinlessness
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This article explores Augustine’s response to the Pelagians who claimed that if one truly desired to be sinless, one could be. The standard scholarly view, as articulated by Gerald Bonner, was that Augustine’s thought during the Pelagian controversy did not change over time. However, Augustine’s thoughts on sinlessness changed over a very brief period of time. He initially admits the possibility that, through grace, some may not have sinned (in De peccatorum meritis et remissione et De baptismo parvulorum); he later retracts this view (in De perfectione iustitiae hominis), only to assert in De gestis Pelagii that he unsure. Finally, he returns to his original position (citing the canons of the Council of Carthage of 418, and arguing that all have sinned).
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Joost Van Neer Structure and Argument in Augustine’s Nativity Sermon 188
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A thread runs through Augustine’s s. 188 that first moves from the spiritual realm via the physical realm to man, and then from man via the physical realm to the spiritual realm. This descending and ascending movement is a perfect depiction of God’s plan with man, which is to become humble himself in order to exalt man. The traditional division of s. 188 ignores the high level of symmetry that one finds in the sermon, and consequently obscures its splendid balance. It is not a help to the reader, but an obstacle. This article has therefore proposed a different solution: a division in three parts.
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Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez Las metáforas agonísticas en la Historia monachorum Syriae de Teodoreto de Ciro
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The Historia monachorum Syriae, written by Theodoret of Cyrrhus in 444 AD, contains a large quantity of sports metaphors in which the ascetic was presented as the “athlete of God”. The origin of this metaphor goes back to the epistles of Paul of Tarsus. Afterwards, there were many Christian writers who included it in their writings, although Theodoret undoubtedly exploited it in a much more intense way than other authors. His abundant use of this metaphor was due to the great popularity enjoyed by athletic contests in the eastern Mediterranean well into the fifth century. Moreover, the partially profane education of Theodoret allowed him to give a specific terminology to his sports metaphors hardly documentable in other writers of Christian antiquity.
10. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 2
Angelo Segneri Alla ricerca delle fonti patristiche del De Trinitate pseudodidimiano
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Traditionally attributed to Didymus the Blind, this anonymous work on the Trinity found in the Cod. Rom. Angel. gr. 116, has no certain authorship. The article throws light on the numerous parallels among the so-called De Trinitate and passages from Basil, the two Gregorys, Athanasius, the pseudo-Basilian books IV and V of the Adversus Eunomium, as well as from some writings of Cyril of Alexandria. Even though the question of the paternity of De Trinitate is still destined to remain clouded, the parallels pointed out by the Author tend definitely to exclude Didymus as the author of this anonymous theological tract.
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Rocco Ronzani Gregorio Magno e le origini dell’Europa. Atti del Convegno internazionale (Firenze, 13-17 maggio 2006), sotto la direzione di Claudio Leonardi; Carmelina Urso, Le donne al tempo di Gregorio Magno. La testimonianza del Registrum epistularum; A Companion to Gregory the Great, edited by Bronwen Neil and Matthew Dal Santo
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Rocco Ronzani Sacramentarium Gelasianum. Concordantia, a cura di Manlio Sodi - Giacomo Baroffio - Alessandro Toniolo
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Manlio Simonetti Enrico Cattaneo, Il Commento a Isaia di Basilio di Cesarea. Attribuzione e studio teologico-letterario
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Juan Antonio Cabrera Montero Gregory Vall, Learning Christ: Ignatius of Antioch & the Mystery of Redemption
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Jerónimo Leal Juan de Damasco, Sobre las imágenes sagradas. Introducción, edición bilingüe y notas de José B. Torres Guerra
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Giuseppe Caruso Emanuela Prinzivalli - Manlio Simonetti, La teologia degli antichi cristiani (secoli I-V)
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Giuseppe Caruso Simon Claude Mimouni, Les traditions anciennes sur la Dormition et l’Assomption de Marie. Etudes littéraires, historiques et doctrinales
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Gerald Boersma J. Warren Smith, Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue: The Theological Foundation of Ambrose’s Ethics
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Emanuela Prinzivalli Lo studio della teologia dei Padri: Il Contesto Storico-Letterario
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Theology, and thus also patristic theology, requires an historical perspective in order to resolve issues in the context of secularization. This article illustrates the persistent suspicion with which theology views history, and the contribution that the historical method can offer to patristic theology.