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Agape
(299 words)
[German version] (ἀγάπη;
agápē) In the NT (Jud 12)
agápē is also used for the ‘love feast’ if it is an occasion of brotherly love (Tert. Apol. 39,16:
agápē is equal to
dilectio). Tertullian described a communal meal of the congregation comparable to ancient sacral meals. Since Ignatius (
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Antiochene School
(216 words)
[German version] This modern name describes a group of theologians who worked as exegetes. A true bond as a school can only be demonstrated for theologians who temporarily resided in Antiochia between
c. 350 and
c. 430, e.g., Diodorus of Tarsus, his students Theodorus of Mopsuestia, Iohannes Chrysostomos and their (?) student Theodoretus of Cyrrhus. The characteristics of this school are apparent in its exegetical work, such as the methodological prologues of a commentary on the Psalms attributed to Diodorus (CPG 2,3818): int…
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Carmen contra paganos
(123 words)
[German version] The Parisian Cod. Lat. 8084 of Prudentius transmits in fol. 156r-158v 122 v. an anonymous defamatory poem (CPL 1431), directed against a
praefectus (
urbis or
praetorio orientis), presumably Virius Nicomachus Flavianus [2] the Elder, but alternatively perhaps Vettius Agorius Praetextatus. The text is not only a Christian reaction to the pagan Roman renaissance under Symmachus, but also a testimony of the Christian reception of Virgil. The
Carmen contra paganos belongs to the genre of apologetic poetry, and makes interesting references to the pag…
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Fortunat(ian)us
(124 words)
[German version] F., an African, held office in 342-368/370 as bishop of Aquileia. According to Jerome he wrote a gospel commentary
Titulis ordinatis brevi sermone rusticoque (Jer. Vir. ill. 97,1) under Constantius [2] II (337-361). Perhaps three smaller fragments have been preserved (CPL 104); Jerome used the work for his own Matthew commentary (Praef.: PL 26,200 and Ep. 10,3). F. received Athanasius in Aquileia in 345 but then pressured Liberius of Rome to be lenient towards the Homoean movement ( Arianism) under e…
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Abgar Legend
(327 words)
[German version] The Abgar legend is a pseudepigraphic correspondence between Jesus of Nazareth and king Abgar V. Ukkāmā (= the Black; Tac. Ann. 12,12,2) of Edessa, …
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Doketai
(403 words)
[German version] (δοκηταί;
dokētaí). With this generic term or τῶν ... δοκιτῶν αἵρεσις (
tôn ... dokitôn haíresis, Theod. Epist. 82,1) ancient Christian theologians from the middle of the 5th cent., as also recent academic research, designated various points of view that (in the minds of their critics at any rate) call into question or even repudiate the real humanity of Jesus Christ and postulate a ‘pseudo-body’. Opponents of Ignatius of Antioch maintained for example that Christ had only appeared to suffer (…
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Pectorius inscription
(202 words)
[German version] Inscription (IG XIV 2525 = SEG 29, 825 = [1]) on a marble panel discovered in 1839 at Augustodunum/ Autun. It consists of three elegiac distychs (V. 1-6) and five hexameters (V. 7-11). Alongside the Abercius inscription, it is one of the most significant examples of ancient Christian epigraphy; in its current form, it constitutes a funerary inscription commissioned by one Pectorius for his mother. The first six verses form the acrostic ΙΧΘΥΣΕ, so it must be assumed that this section of text is incompletely preserved ([1] ventures a completion: ἰχθύς/
ichthýs, ἐλπίς/
elpís…
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Victricius
(212 words)
[German version] Born
c. AD 340; after his conversion to the Christian faith, between 360 and 363 he ended his military service (according to Paul. Nol. epist. 18,7, at any rate, with detailed description of the circumstances) and
c. 380/386 became bishop of Ratomagus (modern Rouen). Letters to him from Paulinus [5] of Nola (Epist. 18 and 37) and from the Roman bishop Innocentius I ([1. vol. 1, 286]: a
liber regularum) from this period survive. The focus of his work was the battle against Homoean theology in the Imperial church (Trinity III; Arianism), the advancement of monasticism and the Christianization of rural areas. From time to time he was one of those around Martinus [1] of Tours (Sulp. Sev. dial. 3,2). V. died between 404 and 409. His sole surviving work,
De laude sanctorum ('Praise of the Saints'), was occasioned by the transfer of relics from Italy; it contains an interesting combination of theologies of relics, martyrs and the (neo-Nicaean) Tr…
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Sermon, Homily
(1,744 words)
[German version] I. General remarks, concept and origins The term sermon refers to a type of speech (Greek ὁμιλία/
homilía, Latin
sermo) given, beginning in the …
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Cyprianus
(1,077 words)
[German version] [1] C. Gallus Heptateuch poet see Heptateuch poet Markschies, Christoph (Berlin) [2] C. Thascius Caecili(an)us From AD 248/9 bishop of Carthago [German version] A. Biography
Caecilius Cyprianus qui et Thascius (his transmitted name, combining his original Punic cognomen Thascius C. with a newly adopted Christian cognomen after his godfather Caecilianus, according to Pontius, vita 4 -- or rather Caecilius, according to Jer. Vir. ill. 67 [1. 110, n. 1]) was the son of wealthy parents. Prior to his conversion t…
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Philostorgius
(207 words)
[German version] (Φιλοστόργιος;
Philostórgios). The Church historian P. was born around AD 368 in Borissus/Cappadocia and remained a layman throughout his life. From 388 on he lived in Constantinople and expanded through travel the good education he had received. Of significance for his theological views was an encounter with his countryman Eunomius, whose neo-Arianism influenced his theology (Arianism B.3.; he rejected the concept of 'Anomoean' [3. 65,11-14
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Vincentius of Lerinum
(598 words)
[German version] I. Life Theologist, died before AD 450 V. of Lerinum (Lérins) died before AD 450, perhaps
c. 435. According to Gennadius (
De viris illustribus 65) and Eucherius [3] (
De laude heremi 42;
Instructiones I, praef. p. 66,5 Wotke) he was born in northern France and led a secular life, until he took up residence before 427 as a priest-monk on the smaller of the two islands of Lerinum/Lérins off the coast at Cannes (Saint-Honorat), which was used primarily by noble refugees from Gaul as a 'monastery of asylum' [5]. V. describes the seclusion of the place with traditional
topoi as an e…
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Meletius of Antioch
(577 words)
[German version] came from a wealthy family from Melitene/Armenia Minor (Greg. Nyss. in Meletium, p. 444 Spira; Philostorgius, Hist. eccl. 5,5 = GCS 69,11 Bidez/Winkelmann), was privileged with a thorough education and then apparently lived as an ascetic. He was elected to be the successor of the deposed Homoiousian Eustathius [6], bishop of Sebaste, and advocated a theology in the tradition of Eusebius [7] of Caesaria from AD 357 as well as supporting the ecclesiastical politics of his successor …
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Ruricius of Limoges
(170 words)
[German version] Christian bishop and author; initially married (wedding song: Sid. Apoll. Carm. 11), under the influence of Faustus [3] Reiensis he decided in 477 to lead an ascetic life and ultimately became a bishop in 485. He died shortly…
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Hermas, Hermae Pastor
(628 words)
[German version] The work ‘The shepherd of H.’ (Greek only Ποιμήν;
Poimḗn, Latin
Liber pastoris nuntii paenitentiae or
Liber Hermae prophetae) is a Christian prophetic script with the stylistic character of an apocalypse but not wholly corresponding to this genre. The work places H. among the Apostolic Fathers. The title ‘Shepherd’ (Ποιμήν) for the entire work appeared in the
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Pachomius
(296 words)
[German version] (Παχώμιος;
Pachṓ
mios). P. was born in AD 292, probably in Latopolis/Esna, and died of the plague in AD 346. He is regarded as the founder of cenobitic monasticism in Egypt and the author of the first regulations for monks. The Pachomian monastic community, which he founded, is called
koinóbion (in the sense of
koinōnía, …
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