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  1. International Conference: Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity

    Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity
    International Conference
    Ebeltoft, Denmark
    31 May – 4 June 2010

    Further Information:
    Conference website and registration:
    www.relnorm.au.dk/en/may2010conf/presentation

    The conference explores questions such as: How did ancient religious texts and traditions attain normative and canonical status? Which ideological and rhetorical strategies were used in the struggle for the normative status of specific texts and traditions? Discussions will take place under these five headings:
    1. Reuse, Rewriting and Usurpation of Biblical and Classical Texts
    2. Invention and Maintenance of Religious Traditions: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives 3. Orthodoxy and Heresy
    4. Formation of the Biblical Canon
    5. Canons, Classics and Foundation Texts in Antiquity: A Comparative Perspective

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  2. 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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  3. Paul R. Kolbet Publishes Book

    Boston College Professor Publishes Book

    NOTRE DAME, IN, December 15, 2009<Paul R. Kolbet, assistant professor of
    theology at Boston College, has published a new book AUGUSTINE AND THE
    CURE OF SOULS: Revising a Classical Ideal. In this study, Kolbet crosses
    the boundaries of ancient philosophy, psychology, rhetoric, and theology
    to examine the ancient practice of the “cure of the soul” and to chart
    its Christian appropriation by Augustine.

    AUGUSTINE AND THE CURE OF SOULS is published by the University of Notre
    Dame Press. Click here for more information:

    http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01337

    Contact: Kathryn Pitts, Marketing Manager, University of Notre Dame
    Press, p. 574.631-3267, e. pitts.5@nd.edu

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    January 16th, 2010 6:10 pm Continue Reading

  4. “Let the Little Children Come to Me:” Childhood & Children in Early Christianity

    Cornelia B. Horn and John W. Martens, “Let the Little Children Come to Me:” Childhood and Children in early Christianity (Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009).

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    November 13th, 2009 4:37 pm Continue Reading

  5. Brepols Publishers announces Corpus Christianorum in Translation

    Brepols Publishers announces Corpus Christianorum in Translation, translations of Greek and Latin patristic and medieval texts edited in the Corpus Christianorum series.

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    September 17th, 2009 10:22 pm Continue Reading
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