The Intellectual World of Late-Antique Christianity explores new perspectives on early Christian epistemology in relation to the changing discourses, institutions, and material culture of late antiquity. Early Christian modes of knowing and ordering knowledge involved complex processes of appropriation, reproduction, and reconfiguration of Jewish and classical epistemologies. This helped Christians develop cultures of interpretation and argument as textually oriented religious communities within the Roman Empire and beyond. It laid an intellectual foundation that would be built upon and modified in a variety of later contexts. Encompassing Greek, Latin, and Syriac Christianity, and an historical arc that stretches from the New Testament to Bede, this volume traces how diverse theological commitments resulted in distinctive Christian accounts of knowing. It foregrounds the myriad ways in which early Christian epistemology was embedded in earlier intellectual traditions and forms of life, and how they established norms for communal life and powerful ways of acting in the world.
This book is for scholars and students of the ideas, literatures, and cultures of early Christianity and late antiquity, ancient philosophers, and historians of theology. It offers new perspectives on early Christian modes of knowing and ordering knowledge in relation to changing discourses, institutions, and material culture of late antiquity.
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Explores and contextualises ways of knowing and ordering knowledge in early Christianity in Greek, Latin, and Syriac-speaking milieus.
1. Modes of knowing and the ordering of knowledge in early Christianity
Lewis Ayres, Michael Champion, Matthew R. Crawford;
2. The beginnings of a
Christian doctrine of the spiritual senses before Origen Jane Heath;
3.
Health, medicine, and philosophy in the school of Justin Martyr Jared Secord;
4. The structure of the ascetic self in Irenaeus of Lyons Paul Saieg;
5. The
order of education and knowledge in clement of Alexandria Matyį Havrda;
6.
Origen's institutions and the shape of biblical scholarship Peter Martens;
7.
Dialogue and catalogue: Fate, free-will, and epistemology in the Book of the
Laws of the Countries Scott Johnson;
8. Iamblichus on divination and prophecy
Peter Struck;
9. Cyprian, scripture and socialisation: forming faith in the
catechumenate and beyond Edwina Murphy;
10. Sacrificial knowing: Cyprian and
early Christian ritual knowledge Andrew McGowan;
11. Learning the language of
God: tables in early Christian texts Andrew Riggsby;
12. The Aėtian Placita
and the church fathers: creative use of a distinctive mode of ordering
knowledge David Runia;
13. Nicaea's frame: the organisation of creedal
knowledge in late antiquity and modernity Andrew Radde-Gallwitz;
14. The
Arian controversy and the problem of image(s) Rebecca Lyman;
15. Imaging
Ephrem the author Jeffrey Wickes;
16. Homilies as 'Modes of Knowing': an
exploration on the basis of Greek patristic sermons (ca. 350-ca. 450 CE)
Johan Leemans;
17. Dissemination of biblical narratives, motifs, and figures
through early Christian inscriptions and homilies Cilliers Breytenbach;
18.
How to make use of pagan knowledge without separating oneself from the
church's milk: the function of otherness in Gregory of Nyssa's theory of
self-perfection Jan Stenger;
19. Female characters as modes of knowing in
late imperial dialogues: the body, desire, and the intellectual life Dawn
LaValle Norman;
20. The Christianity of Latin Christian poetry Mark Edwards;
21. Ambrose's hymns as modes of knowing the 'Real' Brian Dunkle;
22. Confused
voices: sound and sense in the later Augustine Carol Harrison;
23. Precision
and the limits of human autopsy in Augustine's critique of pagan divination
Michael Hanaghan;
24. Duplex via: authority and reason at Cassiciacum Gerald
Boersma;
25. The object of our gaze: visual perception as a mode of knowing
Robin Jensen;
26. Reconsidering the tholos image in the Eusebian canon
tables: symbols, space, and books in the late antique Christian imagination
Matthew Crawford;
27. Condemning the glutton of the monastery: rhetorical
strategies and the epistemology of Philoxenus of Mabbug Jeanne-Nicole Mellon
Saint-Laurent;
28. Evagrius of Ponticus on lup: Distress and cognition
between philosophy, medicine, and monasticism Jonathan Zecher;
29. Liturgical
modes of knowing: coming to know God (and oneself) in sixth-century hymns and
homilies Sarah Gador-Whyte;
30. Prolegomena to philosophy and the ascetic
ordering of knowledge Michael Champion;
31. Bureaucratic modes of knowing in
the late roman empire Sara Ahbel-Rappe;
32. The dissemination and
appropriation of legal knowledge in the age of Justinian Peter Sarris;
33.
The ordering of knowledge in four late patristic Christological handbooks
Dirk Krausmüller;
34. World and empire: contrasting the cosmopolitan visions
of Maximus the Confessor and George of Pisidia in seventh century Byzantium
Paul Blowers;
35. Boethius on the ordering of knowledge John Magee;
36.
Ordering emotional communities: modes of knowing in Gregory the Great Bronwen
Neil;
37. Creating knowledge and knowing creation in late antique theological
and scientific writing Helen Foxhall Forbes;
38. Hierarchies of knowledge in
the works of Bede Zachary Guiliano;
39. Epilogue Teresa Morgan.
Lewis Ayres is Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University. He is the author of Nicaea and Its Legacy (2004) and Augustine's Trinitarian Theology (2010). Michael Champion is Associate Professor and Director of the Australian Catholic University Node, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. His most recent book is Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education ( 2022). Matthew R. Crawford is Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Biblical and Early Christian Studies at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. He is the author, most recently, of The Eusebian Canon Tables (2019).
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