Displaying: 381-400 of 940 documents

0.225 sec

381. Augustinianum: Volume > 53 > Issue: 2
Emmanuel Albano Il Mistero Della Chiesa, Principio Di Unità Della Riflessione Di Clemente Di Alessandria: Note Per Una Possibile Lettura Storico-Teologica
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
The article intends to analyse the notion of Church in Clement of Alexandria’s thought. The analysis begins with the biblical images used by the author, i.e., those of the body, mother and spouse, before dwelling on its essential dimensions. The notion of ecclesial tradition emerges as a central theme in this reflection in its formal aspects as well as in its contents. They find their definition and codification in the ecclesiastical canon which makes reference to a correct orthopraxis and, therefore, to a confrontation with heterodoxy. Such an aspect, even though it was only mentioned, allows the onto-logical-atemporal dimension of the Church to express itself in the visible-temporal dimension, thereby showing the unity of the Church “in its essence, its thought content, its origin and its preeminence as a whole.”
382. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 1
Geoffrey D. Dunn The Poverty of Melania the Younger and Pinianus
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
Two literary sources, Palladius’ Historia Lausiaca and Gerontius’ Vita Melaniae, provide information about the ascetical activity of Melania the Younger and her husband Pinianus, two extremely wealthy aristocratic Romans in late antiquity. Peter Brown recently has sug-gested that they are to be seen as heroic individuals who embraced total renunciation of their possessions in contrast with the practice of regular expiatory almsgiving as recommended by Augustine of Hippo. This paper argues that while the generosity of their alms-giving was enormous and while Gerontius’ rhetorical objective was to portray them as engaging in total renunciation of riches, a careful reading of the texts reveals that much of their almsgiving came from their annual income and the sale or donation of some of their possessions, but that their income-generating capital investment in fixed assets like property was preserved, which enabled them to engage in acts of charity over a lengthy period of time. The only exception to this was their dispossession of property in Rome threat-ened by the presence of Alaric between 408 and 411 and other property in Spain and Gaul. Despite Melania’s preference for celi-bacy, frugal living and almsgiving, she and her husband remained wealthy individuals. Even their experiences in Africa, where Pinianus was nearly forced to become a presbyter in Hippo, much to Augustine’s embarrassment, indicates that they remained people of substance whose impressive and continual record of almsgiving gave them an authority in the local church that rivalled Augustine’s.
383. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 1
Jerome Lagouanere L’Amour du Prochain dans les Premiers Commentaires Pauliniens d’Augustin d’Hippone
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
In this paper, the Author examines how the Epistles of Paul, mainly his Epistles on Romans and on Galatians, have influenced Augustine when he tries to define love of neighbour. Thanks to a survey of exegetical commentaries of the Bishop of Hippo and a comparison with those of his predecessors, like Marius Victorinus or Ambro- siaster, and contemporaries, like Jerome, the Author shows in what ways the notion of neighbour in Augustine’s thought is original and must be understood in a cenobitic framework. As a consequence, the Augustinian notion of neighbour must be read in these exegetical works as both a soteriogical and an ecclesiological one.
384. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 1
Vittorino Grossi Liturgia cristiana e arte Nota in Margine a due Pubblicazioni recenti
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
This note is a presentation and analysis of two recently published volumes by the Libreria Editrice Vaticana: L’Atlante storico della Liturgia, by Keith F. Pecklers, translated from English by Carlo Dezzuto, and Ierotopi cristiani. Alla luce della riforma liturgica del Concilio Vaticano II, by Tiziano Ghirelli. In it, the author higlights the merits and the shortcomings of both publications.
385. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 1
Andrés Sáez Gutiérrez La presencia de Cristo Desde La Creación Hasta La Encarnación Según el Peri Pascha de Melitón De Sardes
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
Contemporary Christology in the twentieth century has rediscovered the mediation of Christ in creation, an aspect of faith attested to in the first Christian centuries. In this paper, we will attempt to go into detail about the mediating mission of the Son, applied in this case to the period from creation until incarnation, a period which contemporary systematic theology has investigated far less, except in a few exceptions, than it has in relation to creation itself. To do this, we have focused on the thought of an author from the second half of the second century: Melito of Sardis. In addition, the foreshadowing of the life of Christ before the incarnation; the activity of Christ from creation until incarnation; the suffering of the Logos throughout the history of Israel and the meaning of his presence in this period of historia salutis will be analysed.
386. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 1
Emanuela Prinzivalli Lo studio della teologia dei Padri: Il Contesto Storico-Letterario
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
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.
387. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 1
Patricio De Navascués Benlloch Policarpo e Ireneo nel frammento a Florino, CPG 1308 (Apud Eusebio, HE 5,20,4-8)
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
This passage from Irenaeus’ Letter to Florinus (cf. Eus. Caes., HE 5, 20, 4-8) offers sufficient material for reflection on the patristic function within dogmatic theology, provided that we understand both Polycarp in the role of a Church Father standing in direct contact with the apostolic kerygma, and, at times, Irenaeus as a theologian reflecting on faith. We begin with the apostolic kerygma which Policarp first hears, learns and sets down clearly, then later recalls and transmits in harmony with faith and scripture. Irenaeus, for his part, carries out the role of theologian to the extent to which he listens to what was handed on attentively, commits it to memory, reflects upon it and then witnesses to it, moved by the grace of God. The language utilized by Irenaeus reveals reminiscences of the Platonic tradition, apropos of the function of memory and scripture (cf. Phaedrus) and of the Philonian tradition, apropos of the theological content of the biblical term to ruminate. The analysis undertaken offers a ground upon which to think about new relationships between dogmatic and patristic theologies, a question that can be developed in a later article.
388. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 1
Rosa Mª Marina Sáez Observaciones agustinianas sobre la metonimia y su Pervivencia en Algunos Textos Gramaticales Hispánicos
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
In this paper the Augustinian concept of metonymy is analyzed through a commentary on de ciuitate Dei 11, 8 (CCSL 48, 327-328) and other parallel texts as well as their survival in some grammatical texts produced in Visigothic Spain. This study demonstrates the enormous influence of Augustine's thought in these texts, either through an indirect tradition, or through direct reading of his writings.
389. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 1
Manlio Simonetti Antilegomenon su ὑπόστασις
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
Concerning the vexing question concerning the value to be attributed to ὁμοούσιος, the key term of Nicea, this note rejects the earlier critiques raised against Simonetti by way of an interpretation of the expressions εξ ἑτέρας ὑπόστασις contained in the fourth creedal formula of Antiochia.
390. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 1
Juan Antonio Cabrera Montero La Cita Atanasiana del Apologeticum de Tribus Capitulis de Julián de Toledo
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
Neither of the two existing critical editions of the Apologeticum de tribus capitulis succeeds in identifying a literal citation which its author, Julian of Toledo attributes to Athanasius of Alexandria and which is not found in either of the works, authentic or attributed, of the patriarch of Alexandria. After an analysis of the sources which Julian may have utilized in his polemic with the Roman see, we find the citation in the Contra Arianos, Sabellianos et Photinianos dialogus of Virgil of Tapso in a fictitious conversation that this African author of the fifth century establishes between Arius and Athanasius.
391. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 1
Claudio Moreschini La Sapienza Pagana al Servizio Della Dottrina Trinitaria Secondo lo Pseudo Didimo di Alessandria
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
From the perspective of concordism the pseudo-Didymean De Trinitate, offers many citations from philosophical and pagan religious literature, the purpose of which is to find confirmation of the truth revealed by Christ. This study shows how the most interesting among pagan poetry cited by Pseudo-Didymus aims to enrich the section of his work dedicated to the definition of God, the Trinitarian persons and their prerogatives, conveying a theology analogous to that developed by the Cappadocians.
392. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 2
Clementina Mazzucco I rapporti tra i coniugi nel pensiero dei Padri della Chiesa (I-III sec.)
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
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.
393. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 2
Mª Amparo Mateo Donet Las Actas de los mártires. Una actualización de los Documentos Sobre los Primeros Cristianos
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
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.
394. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 2
Manlio Simonetti Su Origene, Commento a Matteo 17, 1-3; 25-28
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
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.
395. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 2
Patricio De Navascués Benlloch I Padri della Chiesa e la teologia dogmatica. Alcune considerazioni
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
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.
396. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 2
Angelo Segneri Alla ricerca delle fonti patristiche del De Trinitate pseudodidimiano
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
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.
397. Augustinianum: Volume > 54 > Issue: 2
Americo Miranda I ministeri ecclesiastici ed il rapporto tra “temporale” e “spirituale” nell’opera di Giovanni Crisostomo
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
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.
398. Augustinianum: Volume > 55 > Issue: 1
Sergio Gerardo Americano La versione latina Della Doctrina ad Antiochum Ducem Pseudo-Atanasiana (CPG 2255) Origine E Datazione
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
The Doctrina ad Antiochum ducem, incorrectly attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria, owes its importance to the transmission of extensive extracts from the Shepherd of Hermas. Doctrina is transmitted in Greek in two recensions, a brevior (in 11 chapters) and a longa (in 21 chapters); however the same recensio longa has been subject to a number of redactional phases. A Latin version edited only recently, the object of this present study, sheds light on these later redactions. Stylistic and historical-literary considerations prompt a dating in the 40’s of the sixth century and assign paternity to Paschasius of Dumium, a monkwho lived in a monastery of the same name in northwest of Braga (Portugal) that was founded at the same time by Martin of Braga (ca. 510 — 579). The dating of the Latin version also entails a more precise dating of the original Greek, assignable to the beginning of the sixth century.
399. Augustinianum: Volume > 55 > Issue: 1
Angelo Segneri L’ Epistula Synodalis pseudoanfilochiana (CPG 3243)
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
The intention here is to propose a new critical edition of the so-called Epistula synodalis (CPG 3243) a text traditionally attributed to Amphilochius of Iconium, but which the Author considers to be spurious. Alongside the Italian translation of the letter, based on a comparative commentary with the writings of Basil (and also of the two Gregories), a strong dependence of this text on Cappadocian Fathers’ Trinitarian theology and pneumatology is brought to light. However, its origin is probably an anonymous work, only subsequently associated with Amphilochius.
400. Augustinianum: Volume > 55 > Issue: 1
Clara Burini de Lorenzi La Peregrinatio di Paola: Agiografia ed Esegesi (Girolamo, ep. 108)
abstract | view |  rights & permissions
In Letter 108, Jerome describes the itinerary of Paula from Rome to Bethlehem (108:7-14). This section introduces hagiographic and exegetical elements: the route becomes the celebration and memory of exemplary pietas while the places consent once more to the teaching of the Scripture and the inalienable principle “from letter to spirit”.