Preaching after Easter: Mid-Pentecost, Ascension, and Pentecost in Late Antiquity

The studies collected in Preaching after Easter examine the festal history and homiletics of Mid-Pentecost, Ascension, and Pentecost in the late antique Mediterranean world. Articles on individual sermons or the work of individual preachers such as John Chrysostom, Augustine of Hippo, Peter Chrysologus, Leo the Great, and Severus of Antioch exhibit the richness of late antique festal preaching. Questions of authenticity, heresiology, and theological, exegetical, or liturgical history are addressed with methodological rigor. Complementary contributions that deal with ancient Jewish-Christian dialogue, art-historical reception, and contemporary liturgical theology illustrate the wide ramifications of ancient Christian festal practice. Students and scholars of these feasts and the interpretive traditions devoted to them will find this volume to be an indispensable source of information and analysis.

Richard W. Bishop (Ph.D. 2009) is a post-doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium). His current project is an annotated translation of the extant Greek festal sermons on Ascension and Pentecost from Late Antiquity.

Prof. Dr. Johan Leemans (Ph.D. 2001) is full professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium). He has published extensively on late antique sermons and on the theology of the Cappadocian Fathers.

Dr. Hajnalka Tamas (Ph.D. 2014) is a post-doctoral fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and research associate at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium). Her research interests include late antique hagiography and asceticism.