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Christologische Schriftargumentation und Bildersprache
Zum Konflikt zwischen Metapherninterpretation und dogmatischen Schriftbeweistraditionen in der patristischen Auslegung des 44. (45.) Psalms
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Elisabeth Grünbeck
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English
Published/Copyright:
1994
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This volume examines the early Church's methods of theological argumentation concerning the metaphorical texts of the Bible. Ps 45 presents some of the oldest biblical evidence for the divinity of Christ and was often cited in christological and trinitarian controversies.
In the 4th century the conflict between the traditional interpretation of the Church and linguistic methods erupted. In the course of the debate with Arian exegesis the significance of metaphor and the possibility of speaking of God were conceived anew.
This study is based on dogmatic, exegetical and spiritual texts ranging from Justin to Cyril of Alexandria and Theodoret of Cyrus. It shows how the various forms of argumentation interact: how scholarly theology was mediated through preaching, and pastoral and catechetical interests affected christological reflection.
In the 4th century the conflict between the traditional interpretation of the Church and linguistic methods erupted. In the course of the debate with Arian exegesis the significance of metaphor and the possibility of speaking of God were conceived anew.
This study is based on dogmatic, exegetical and spiritual texts ranging from Justin to Cyril of Alexandria and Theodoret of Cyrus. It shows how the various forms of argumentation interact: how scholarly theology was mediated through preaching, and pastoral and catechetical interests affected christological reflection.
Author / Editor information
Elisabeth Grünbeck is Assistant at the Institute for the History of the Early Church and Patristics in Freiburg, Germany.
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'...a thorough, compelling piece of scholarship...'
Alan Kolp, Church History, 1996.
Alan Kolp, Church History, 1996.
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December 22, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9789004312937
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438
eBook ISBN:
9789004312937
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in patristics and theology, in the history of exegesis and theology, especially of the doctrines of God and Christ in the Early Church.
