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Oxford Early Christian Studies

Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors

Ludlow, Morwenna (Professor of Christian History and Theology, Professor of Christian History and Theology, University of Exeter)

Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors

Oxford Early Christian Studies

Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors

Oxford Early Christian Studies: Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors

 

Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors analyses Christian Greek literature in the fourth century in order to emphasise the style, ingenuity, and craftsmanship demonstrated by the authors of such texts.


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Beschrijving Oxford Early Christian Studies: Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors

Ancient authors commonly compared writing with painting. The sculpting of the soul was also a common philosophical theme. Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors takes its starting-point from such figures to recover a sense of ancient authorship as craft. The ancient concept of craft (ars, techne) spans 'high' or 'fine' art and practical or applied arts. It unites the beautiful and the useful. It includes both skills or practices (like medicine and music) and productive arts like painting, sculpting and the composition of texts. By using craft as a guiding concept for understanding fourth Christian authorship, this book recovers a sense of them engaged in a shared practice which is both beautiful and theologically useful, which shapes souls but which is also engaged in the production of texts. It focuses on Greek writers, especially the Cappadocians (Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nysa) and John Chrysostom, all of whom were trained in rhetoric. Through a detailed examination of their use of two particular literary techniques--ekphrasis and prosōpopoeia--it shows how they adapt and experiment with them, in order to make theological arguments and in order to evoke a response from their readership.


ISBN
9780198848837
Pagina's
288
Verschenen
Serie
Oxford Early Christian Studies
NUR
700
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

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