Patristic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Proceedings of an International Conference to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the International Association of Patristic Studies PDF
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PATRISTIC STUDIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PROCEEDINGS OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PATRISTIC STUDIES Edited by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony Theodore de Bruyn Carol Harrison F © 2015 Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher. Cover picture: Madaba Mosaic Map, The Holy City of Jerusalem © Archivio Fondazione Terra Santa, Milano D/2015/0095/153 ISBN 978-2-503-55919-3 Printed in the E.U. on acid-free paper TABLE OF CONTENTS Carol Harrison - Theodore de Bruyn Introduction 9 KEYNOTE Susan Ashbrook Harvey Patristic Worlds 25 OVERVIEW OF PATRISTIC STUDIES Martin Wallraff Whose Fathers? An Overview of Patristic Studies in Europe 57 Marcin R. Wysocki Between Western and Eastern Traditions: Polish Patristic Studies after World War II 73 Dennis Trout The State of Patristics in North America 89 Francisco García Bazán Los estudios patrísticos en Sudamérica y el Caribe 107 Satoshi Toda Patristic Studies in East Asia (Mainly in Japan) 125 Bronwen Neil Patristics in Australia: Current Status and Future Potential 145 Michel Willy Libambu La contribution des études patristiques à la théologie africaine : L’étude des Pères de l’Église à l’école théologique de Kinshasa (1957-2013) 163 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS Adolph Martin Ritter The Origins of AIEP 195 Angelo Di Berardino The Development of the AIEP/IAPS 209 Jean-Noël Guinot Éditer et traduire les écrits des Pères dans Sources Chrétiennes : regard sur soixante-dix ans d’activité éditoriale 221 PATRISTICS AND THE CONFLUENCE OF JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, AND MUSLIM CULTURES Averil Cameron Patristic Studies and the Emergence of Islam 249 Emanuel Fiano The Construction of Ancient Jewish Christianity in the Twentieth Century: The Cases of Hans-Joachim Schoeps and Jean Daniélou 279 Timothy Pettipiece Manichaeism at the Crossroads of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions 299 PATRISTICS BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERN CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS Columba Stewart osb Patristics beyond ‘East’ and ‘West’ 317 Barbara Crostini A Meeting-Point between East and West: Hesychius of Jerusalem and the Interpretation of the Psalter in Byzantium 343 PATRISTICS AND THEOLOGY Christoph Markschies Patristics and Theology: From Concordance and Conflict to Competi- tion and Collaboration? 367 Lenka Karfíková The Fifth Theological Oration of Gregory Nazianzen and the Historical Contingency of Revelation 389 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS Eimhin Walsh Formation from the Fathers: The Place of Patristics in the Theological Education of Clergy 405 Reuven Kiperwasser - Serge Ruzer Syriac Christians and Babylonian Jewery: Narratives and Identity Shaping in a Multi-Religious Setting 421 PATRISTICS, LITERATURE, AND HISTORIES OF THE BOOK Mark Vessey ‘La patristique, c’est autre chose’: André Mandouze, Peter Brown, and the Avocations of Patristics as a Philological Science 443 Dominique Côté Les ‘Pseudo-Clémentines’ et le choix du roman grec 473 Tina Dolidze Patristics – as Reflected in Georgian Spiritual and Intellectual History 497 Yonatan Moss The Rise and Function of the Holy Text in Late Antiquity: Severus of Antioch, the Babylonian Talmud, and Beyond 521 PATRISTICS AND ART Robin M. Jensen Integrating Material and Visual Evidence into Early Christian Studies: Approaches, Benefits, and Potential Problems 549 Anne Karahan Patristics and Byzantine Meta-Images: Molding Belief in the Divine from Written to Painted Theology 571 PATRISTICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY Bernard J. Mulholland Identification of Early Byzantine Constantinopolitan, Syrian, and Roman Church Plans in the Levant and Some Possible Consequences 597 Eirini Panou The Church of Mary in the Probatic Pool and the Haghiasmata of Constantinople 635 7 CAROL HARRISON THEODORE DE BRUYN Durham University University of Ottawa President of AIEP/IAPS, 2007-2011 President of AIEP/IAPS, 2011-2015 INTRODUCTION The Association Internationale d’Études Patristiques (AIEP) / International Association of Patristic Studies (IAPS) had a long gestation. The idea of an international association was pro- posed by Michele Pellegrino at the Fourth International Conference on Patristic Studies in 1963. Over the next two years the idea was advanced by Henri-Irénée Marrou, initially among French scholars and then more widely. The Associa- tion was founded at a colloquium convened at the Sorbonne on 26 June 1965, with a provisional Executive Committee comprising Henri-Irénée Marrou, President, Jacques Fontaine, Secretary, Pieter G. van der Nat, Treasurer, and Kurt Aland and Frank L. Cross, Vice-Presidents. Finally, the Association was formally constituted with a duly elected Executive Com- mittee and Council at the Fifth International Conference on Patristic Studies in 1967. 1 The preparation of this volume of papers to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Association had an equally long gestation. The idea of a conference to mark the anniversary was initially suggested at a meeting of the Executive Commit- tee in 2010. The proposal to hold the conference in Jerusalem in 2013 was presented to the Council at the Sixteenth Interna- 1 The paper in this volume by Adolf Martin Ritter, President of the Association from 1983 to 1991, reflects on the state of Patristics in Europe in the decades leading up to the formation of the Association. The paper by Angelo Di Berardino, President of the Association from 1999 to 2003, describes the history of the Association in the decades after its founding. 10.1484/J.BAIEP.5.107509 9 C. HARRISON - T. DE BRUYN tional Conference on Patristic Studies in 2011. The conference was convened on 25-27 June 2013 in Jerusalem under the aus- pices of the Center for the Study of Christianity in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, fifty years after an association was first proposed. This volume of papers will be published, we hope, in time for the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies in 2015, fifty years after the Association was founded. No single conference or collection of papers can embrace the range, diversity, and richness of the scholarship that has been the raison d’être and life of the Association, which now has more than 870 members in over 50 countries. In planning the conference, the Executive Committee sought to bring together established and newer scholars to reflect on two aspects of the Association and its field of study: the state of Patristics in dif- ferent regions of the globe, and the multiple perspectives and disciplines currently brought to bear on the field. We envisioned holding the conference somewhere in the Mediterranean basin that, two millenia ago, generated the literatures and practices that we study, and consequently accepted with gratitude the offer of the Center for the Study of Christianity in the Hebrew Uni- versity of Jerusalem to host and support the conference. Opening the conference with a lecture on ‘Patristic Worlds’, Susan Ashbrook Harvey conjured up an extraordinarily sensuous picture of the diverse, pluralistic – often competing and con- fused – worlds which formed the context for the emergence of the multifaceted aspects of early Christian life and thought. As she vividly put it, anticipating much of what was to char- acterise the conference, ‘Twenty-first century patristic scholar- ship takes as its hallmark to approach antiquity as a multiplicity of worlds, an entire prism split open’. The papers published here are only a selection of those pre- sented at the conference. We shall not attempt a synthetic over- view of all the papers, but we would like to offer a few remarks on the two foci of the conference. First, the study of Patristics in different regions of the globe. Six scholars were invited to address the state of Patristics in their particular region: Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Sev- eral other presenters described the situation in particular coun- tries (such as Poland) or settings (such as theological education). 10
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