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Volume 60, Issue 2, December 2020

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dissertationes
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Emanuele Castelli Dati storici e aspetti romanzeschi nelle prime due Visioni del Pastore di Erma. Una riconsiderazione del problema alla luce di nuove scoperte testuali
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The aim of the paper is to reconsider the content of first two Visions of the Shepherd of Hermas and to decode some ficticious elements offered by the author at the beginning of his work. The study takes into consideration some recent textual discoveries concerning the first sentence of the Shepherd.
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Emanuela Prinzivalli Haereticorum baptisma. Aspetti della controversia battesimale tra Occidente e Oriente nel III secolo
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The present essay, starting from a close examination of the available sources, intends to retrace the historical dynamics of the controversy between Stephen of Rome and Cyprian of Carthage about single baptism. The analysis highlights more clearly than other studies the need to justify, because of the urgent context of the schism of Novatian, the legitimacy of the different traditions of the Churches, something previously taken for granted. The difficulty of this enterprise, combined with the imponderable human factor, represented by the personalities of the protagonists, generates misunderstandings. A further factor is the decisive role played by Dionysius of Alexandria in resolving the conflict, which confirmed the preferential relationship between Rome and Alexandria.
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Christophe Guignard Hilaire de Poitiers, Commentaire sur Matthieu 33, 5 : plaidoyer pour le texte de la famille α
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Three major reshuffles delineate two families (α and β) within the manuscript tradition of the Commentary on Matthew by Hilary of Poitiers. In the first two cases (3, 2; 9, 7-9), J. Doignon in his critical edition (SCh 254 and 258) favored the text of the α family, judging that the β family generally attests to numerous revisions intended to suppress difficult lectiones. In the third case, on the other hand, he adopted the short text of the β family, thus demoting two short passages in 33, 5 specific to the α family. This article shows that on the one hand the language of these passages is attributable to Hilary and on the other their content fits perfectly with his exegesis. It thus argues for their authenticity.
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Roberta Franchi Dal racconto storico-agiografico alla riscrittura poetica: Prudenzio e l’inno su san Romano (Peristephanon X)
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Peristephanon X, a hymn on the martyrdom of St. Romanus of Antioch, may be considered the masterpiece of Prudentius’ poetry on the Christian martyrs. Romanus is represented as a Christian hero. As a rhetor, he defends his faith against paganism as if he were a lawyer; as a martyr, he follows Christ’s example in accepting torture and death. Prudentius’ poetry aims to stimulate and revivify the Christian belief of his audience.
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Daniela Scardia Tractatus in psalmum 15, 8 (Series altera): Gerolamo tra rispetto dei modelli e autonomia esegetica
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The paper focuses attention on Jerome’s interpretation of Ps. 15,8 in Tractatus in psalmum 15. After an introduction dealing with the right way to translate the verse according to Hebraica veritas, which shows his philological skills, he reveals his exegesis. The opening and concluding parts of this exegesis follow closely the Origen’s Homily on Psalm 15, but the long central section about the righteous highlights the particularity of Jerome’s exegesis; he uses other interpretations of Origen’s, but subordinates them to his own concerns to achieve original results. The study offers further proofs in favour of a proposal for dating this text.
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Alexander H. Pierce At the Crossroads of Christology and Grace: Augustine On the Union of Homo and Verbum in Christ (ca. 411–430)
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There are three basic approaches to the question of how Augustine, in his anti-Pelagian writings, conceives of the union of the human and the divine in Christ. Some have argued for a dynamic notion of Christological union as the mutual presence of God and man in and by grace. Others emphasize the increasing technicality of Augustine’s description of Christ’s ontological union. Still others posit a middle ground, affirming both of the ways he speaks of the unity of Christ. However, the relationship between these forms of union has been left unexamined. The purpose of this article is therefore to explore how the two ways in which Augustine envisions Christ’s unity complement one another and to establish the logical priority of the personal incorporation of homo and Verbum over the notion of union as full divine indwelling.
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Charles-Antoine Fogielman L’exégèse anti-origéniste de Jean Philopon: origines et postérité
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The main exegetical work of Jean Philopon, the De opificio mundi, which rehearses the literalist reading of Genesis found in the Basil of Caesarea’s Hexaemeron rather than an allegorical reading, uses a surprising hermeneutic given the general expectations of the era and in particular the Miaphysite milieu to which Philoponus belongs. This paper studies how Philoponus’ work stems from the demands of the Christological debate in which he took part, and offers an evaluation of its immediate aftermath.
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Joel Varela Rodríguez Isidoro de Sevilla ante Gregorio Magno: aspectos de la teología moral
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This article studies Isidore of Seville’s reception of the moral theology of Gregory the Great. Examples will be offered from the Expositio in Vetus Testamentum and the second book of the Differentiae; the moral project of the Sententiae will also be explored. The most significant conclusion is that Isidore refuses to reproduce the most relevant innovations of Gregory’s teaching on charity.
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Paolo Liverani La Σκιά (Hbr. 10,1) e la verità dei colori
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In the Epistle to the Hebrews (10,1; cf. Hbr. 8,5; Col. 2,16-17) the terms σκιά and εἰκών are opposed, and most commentators have focused on the latter term, interpreting it as a Platonic allusion. If we consider in more detail the meanings of σκιά and σκιαγραφία, another interpretation appears more likely. Σκιαγραφία means “shading”, “silhouette” or “outline”, and finally “sketch” or – even better – “preliminary drawing”, “underdrawing”or “sinopia”. The last meaning is well attested in the sources at least since the late second or early third century AD and a number of passages in the Fathers alluding to the Epistle support the same conclusion. The term is common in the technical terminology of painters on wooden tablets and was a widely employed topos with different nuances according to different authors.
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Rocco Ronzani Flauia Amala Amalafrida Theodenanda e un elogio funebre della famiglia reale ostrogota (ICUR I, 2794)
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The note reinterprets an important epigraphic testimony of the Ostrogoth age (ICUR I, 2794), published for the first time by Giovanni Battista de Rossi in 1894. It is a polymetric funeral eulogy commissioned among the Amali royal family, perhaps dedicated by Flavia Amala Amalafrida Theodenanda to one or more relatives, unless one wishes to identify her with one of the dedicatees of the eulogy. After a presentation of supportive material and a new edition of the text, the history of the discovery of the inscription is retraced, involving leading figures of the 19th century political and ecclesiastical culture including cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli and H. Stevenson Jr., a pupil of de Rossi. The contribution dates the artifact between the end of the 5th century and the beginning of the 6th; it studies the hypothesis of identifying Amalafrida with one of the princesses in the family circle of King Theodoric and with the Ostrogothic wife of Flavius Maximus; it illustrates a hypothesis of the intended use of the epigraph for a funeral monument in the cemetery area of the Martyrial Basilica of S. Secondino on the Praenestina.
adnotationes
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Vittorino Grossi L’antropologia agostiniana dell’imago Dei. Nota di aggiornamento della ricerca
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In Augustinian reflection, the main problem of the imago Dei is the renewal of its image through being healed from lust, so as to regain the ordo amoris destroyed by sin. Current research investigates what the gratia Christi and charity contribute to the renewal of the image of God, at the level of a marriage bond that human race was given as part of the act of creation. This emerges as a primary element, both in the original state of man and in his recovery through the gratia Christi.
recensiones
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Giovanni Maria Vian Clemente di Alessandria, Estratti da Teodoto. Frammenti delle perdute Ipotiposi, a cura di Giuliano Chiapparini
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Gianmario Cattaneo A Diogneto, a cura di Fabio Ruggiero
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Giovanni Maria Vian La mistica cristiana, I: Mistica tardogreca e bizantina, siriaca, armena, latina e italiana medievale, a cura di Marco Rizzi - Sabino Chialà - Boghos Levon Zekiyan
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Giuseppe Caruso Un metodo per il dialogo fra le culture. La chrêsis patristica, a cura di Angela Maria Mazzanti
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Sincero Mantelli Il Vangelo di Marcione, a cura di Claudio Gianotto - Andrea Nicolotti
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Giovanni Maria Vian Maria Antonietta Barbàra Valenti, Estratti catenari esegetici greci. Ricerche sul Cantico dei cantici e altro
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Antonio Gaytán «Una sola fe… diversas costumbres». Las Cartas de Gregorio Magno y la Evangelización de los anglos, introducción, traducción y notas de Giancarlo Bellina Shols
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Giuseppe Caruso Stuart Squires, The Pelagian Controversy. An Introduction to the Enemies of Grace and the Conspiracy of Lost Souls
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Enrico Moro Agostino, Vedere Dio (lettera 147), traduzione, introduzione e note a cura di Giovanni Catapano
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