Constructing Antichrist: Paul, Biblical Commentary, and the Development of Doctrine in the Early Middle Ages

305 Pages·2005·1.7 MB·English

by  Kevin L. Hughes

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CONSTRUCTING ANTICHRIST
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CONSTRUCTING
ANTICHRIST
Paul, Biblical Commentary, and the
Development of Doctrine in the
Early Middle Ages
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Hughes, Kevin L.
Constructing antichrist : Paul, biblical commentary, and the development
ofdoctrine in the early middle ages / Kevin L. Hughes.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8132-1415-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Antichrist—History ofdoctrines. 2. Bible. N.T. Thessalonians, 2nd—
Commentaries—History. I. Title.
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments x
The Vulgate Text of2 Thessalonians xii
1. Introduction: Constructing Antichrist 1
The Context and the Sense of Apocalyptic Thought / 2
2 Thessalonians: Pauline “Antichristology” / 10
After the Apostle: The Shape of the 2 Thessalonians Tradition / 14
2. The Man of Sin: Apocalyptic Realism in the
Early Church, 200–400 28
Paul and Antichrist in the Early Fathers: The Prehistory
of Commentary / 29
The Ambrose Tradition (1): Ambrosiaster / 37
The Ambrose Tradition (2): Theodore of Mopsuestia / 50
The Jerome Tradition (1): Pelagius / 64
The Jerome Tradition (2): Jerome and the Persistence of
Apocalyptic Realism / 74
Summary: The Building Blocks of Apocalyptic Realist Exegesis / 79
3. Members of the Enemy Body: The Spiritual
Exegesis of 2 Thessalonians 82
Tyconius / 84
Augustine of Hippo / 94
Excursus: Gregory the Great, The Silent Presence / 108
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4. Antichrist and His Body, 500–1000 115
Pseudo-Primasius: Pelagius Corrected / 117
Antichrist and His Body: The New Synthesis in
Carolingian Biblical Scholarship / 121
Rabanus Maurus: Antichrist as the Twofold Denial of Christ / 126
Florus of Lyons: A “Summa” of Augustinian Antichristology / 139
Sedulius Scotus: “Another Nero, of the Same Title” / 141
Haimo of Auxerre: The Providential Delay of Antichrist / 144
The Ambiguity of the End or the End of Ambiguity? Antichrist
in the Tenth Century / 167
5. Seeing the Adversary Afresh: Paul and Antichrist
in Early Scholastic Exegesis, 1000–1160 178
Lanfranc of Bec: The Early Glossed Text / 179
Bruno the Carthusian / 192
TheGlossa Ordinaria on Paul: Anselm of Laon / 206
FromGlossa Ordinaria to Glossa Magnatura: Peter Lombard / 223
6. Conclusion 239
The Early Medieval Synthesis: Summarizing the
Chronological Argument / 240
The Persistence of Apocalypticism: Implications for the
History of Theology / 245
Bibliography 251
Index 271
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SERIES ABBREVIATIONS
CCSL Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina.Turnhout: Brepols.
CCCM Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Medievalis.Turnhout: Brepols.
CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum.Vienna:
Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky.
MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica.Hanover and Berlin;
Impensis Bibliopolii Hahniani, 1826–
PL Patrologia Latina.Paris: Migne.
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