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1. D. Vincent Twomey & Janet E. Rutherford, eds., “The Holy Spirit in the Fathers of the Church”

   D. Vincent Twomey and Janet E. Rutherford, eds., The Holy Spirit in the Fathers of the Church: the proceedings of the seventh International Patristic Conference (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010)

   Book Contents:

   Brendan Leahy (St Patrick’s College, Maynooth), The Holy Spirit in the theology of Irenaeus

   Janet E. Rutherford, Clement and Origen in context

   Juliette Day (Blackfriars Hall, Oxford), Cyril of Jerusalem on the Holy Spirit

   Lewis Ayres (U Durham), Didymus the Blind’s de Spiritu Sancto and the development of Nicene pneumatology

   Thomas O’Loughlin (U Nottingham), St Augustine on the place of the Holy Spirit in the formation of the Gospels

   Finbarr Clancy SJ (Milltown Institute), The Holy Spirit in St Fulgentius of Ruspe’s Ad Moninum

   Serafim Seppälä (U Joensuu, Finland), The Holy Spirit in Isaac of Ninevah and East Syrian Mysticism

   Andreas Andreopoulos (U Wales Lampeter), The Holy Spirit in the ecclesiology of Photios of Constantinople

   Gregory Collins OSB (Glenstal Abbey), Three modern ‘fathers’ on the filioque: good, bad, or indifferent?

   Patrick Mullins OCarm (Milltown Institute), The Holy Spirit and the Marian typology of St Ambrose at Vatican II.

    

   D. Vincent Twomey SVD is professor emeritus of moral theology, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Janet E. Rutherford is the hon. secretary, Patristic Symposium, Maynooth.

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   September 10th, 2010 4:20 pm | Continue Reading

2. Symbol & Icon: Dionysius the Areopagite & the Iconoclastic Crisis (by Filip Ivanovic)

   This book contributes to the study of the notions of symbol and icon by examining two phenomena that greatly contributed to their development: the thought of Dionysius the Areopagite and the iconoclastic controversy. Different historical and philosophical-theological contexts are examined within the framework of the influence that Dionysius exerted on main protagonists in the controversy and the theology of icon. The reader will find a discussion of the main points of Dionysius’ doctrine, the features of the iconoclastic controversy, and an elaboration of the Areopagite’s aesthetic and symbolic theory with special reference to the theology of icon. Throughout the work Ivanovic seeks to offer broad insight relevant to many different disciplines, such as theology, philosophy, history, and art. Dionysian theory of symbols and apophatic theology, his concepts of light, icon, and visible things as “images of the invisible things” were the basis of the further development of the Orthodox theology of the icon, which constitutes one of the fundamental values of Christian theology. The analysis offered in this book incites further study of the doctrinal dimension of Christian iconology, as well as of Christian and Neoplatonic mysticism, Byzantine aesthetics, and of theological and cultural studies.

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   August 18th, 2010 3:25 pm | Continue Reading

3. Judith Perkins, Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era.

   Judith Perkins, Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era, Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies (London/New York:  Routledge, 2009).

   Christian identity construction in the early imperial period is is a focus of this study.

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   March 12th, 2010 1:34 pm | Continue Reading

4. Heilige Letters en Lettergrepen

   Benno A. Zuiddam, Heilige Letters en Lettergrepen. De functie en het karakter van Schriftgezag in de tweede eeuw, zoals dit naar voren komt in de werken van Ignatius van Antiochië, Irenaeus van Lyon en Clemens van Alexandrië, Importantia (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Teologia, 2007).

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   January 22nd, 2010 1:03 pm | Continue Reading

5. New Book

   I’m happy to announce the publication of my new book:
   J. Jayakiran Sebastian, Enlivening the Past: An Asian Theologian’s Engagement with the Early Teachers of Faith (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2009).
   Thanks to friends at NAPS, especially Dr Charles Bobertz, who encouraged me to do this.

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   January 16th, 2010 6:11 pm | Continue Reading