Demonstrative Proof in Defence of God

A Study of Titus of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos -- The Work's Sources, Aims and Relation to Its Contemporary Theology
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13883-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 243 mm x 164 mm, Gewicht: 1148 g

Reihe: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies

This volume is the first extensive study of a Christian work from the 4th century, Titus of Bostra’s Contra Manichaeos, which is the only text from the early Greek Church setting out a comprehensive theodicy.
The study illuminates the text’s relation to contemporary theology and philosophy and interprets it in the light of the ideological conflicts between pagans, Catholic Christians and Manichaeans in the 4th century. It includes an examination of the possible Manichaean sources used by Titus, and, furthermore, a critical text study and translation of central passages in Contra Manichaeos, based both on the Greek text and the Syriac version of it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pedersen, Nils Arne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
I. Introduction
II. Summary of Contents
III. Receptions, editions and scholarship history of ‘Contra Manichaeos’
IV. The historical and literary context for Titus of Bostra’s ‘Contra Manichaeos’
V. The audience for ‘Contra Manichaeos’ and the portrayal of Manichaeism that Titus wished to present to them
VI. The Manichaean texts used by Titus of Bostra
VII. Titus of Bostra’s philosophical position
VIII. Titus of Bostra’s interpretation of the Paradise narrative
IX. Comparison between the exegesis of Genesis in Titus of Bostra and in a number of writers in “the Antiochene School”
X. Summary of the study’s most important conclusions
XI. Critical examinations of the text
Bibliography
Indices

Über Autor(innen)

Nils Arne Pedersen, Dr. Theol. (1996), University of Aarhus (Denmark), is Associate Professor of Church History. He has published on Patristics and Manichaeism including Studies in The Sermon on the Great War (Aarhus University Press, 1996) and Manichaean Homilies (Brepols).