دانلود کتاب Irenaeus of Lyons and the Mosaic of Christ Preaching Scripture in the Era of Martyrdom

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Reading scripture in an age of martyrdom -- Why Irenaeus and the second century? -- Martyrdom: the context for Irenaeus' work -- Martyrdom and the disharmony of the world -- Martyrdom and the early Christian catechumenate -- 2 Creatio ex nihilo and the freedom of humanity -- Creating all things ex nihilo -- Creation and freedom in ancient philosophy -- Apologists and the two-step theory of creation -- Valentinian cosmology: exploiting the two-step theory -- Irenaeus: renovating the creatio ex nihilo doctrine -- God contains all things -- God needs no instruments -- God's will as the substance of all things -- Creatio ex nihilo as the foundation for freedom -- The freedom of God -- The freedom of humanity -- Human freedom in AH iv, 37-38 -- Conclusion -- 3 The recapitulation of all things in Christ -- Martyrdom and the question of Christian identity -- Recapitulation all things in Christ -- The origins of recapitulation: Logos-Christology -- Recapitulation as the fulfillment of creation -- Christ's recapitulation of humanity -- Recapitulation and the ontological freedom of humanity -- Conclusion: recapitulation as a way of reading scripture -- 4 The mosaic of Christ (AH i, 8-9, iv, 33-34): reading scripture within the Eucharistic gathering -- Human flesh as the sacred text of divine revelation -- The aesthetic character of the divine image -- The Valentinian reading of scripture: images without an archetype -- The formation of the flesh as the hypothesis of scripture -- Finding stability: The archetype becomes visible -- The Eucharistic flesh of Christ as the stability of scripture -- Fixing the flesh to the wood: Irenaeus' reading of Isaiah 2:3-4 -- 5 The virgin birth (AH iii): a new kind of generationSecond-century readers: relating the new to the old -- Irenaeus' fourfold gospel -- The virgin birth: confessing Christ (AH iii, 16) -- The virgin birth: a new generation (AH iii, 19) -- The virgin birth: an ancient sign (AH iii, 21-22) -- 6 The new fulfilling the old (AH iv) -- Irenaeus' reading of the Old Testament: introducing AH iv -- The patriarchs: Abraham's joy (AH iv, 5-7) -- Love's fulfilling of the law (AH iv, 9-13) -- 7 Power made perfect in weakness (AH v) -- The battle for the apostle Paul -- The man born blind: weakness and the formation of humanity (AH v, 15) -- Jesus' temptation: weakness and the economy of the tree (AH v, 16-21) -- 8 Conclusion: "Joining the end to the beginning"--Irenaeus and his opponents: what have we learned? -- Tradition: the truth that is handed over -- Ontology: a new ground of being -- Irenaeus' reading of scripture: what have we learned? -- The scriptures and the cosmological narrative -- The scriptures and the preaching of the church -- Characteristics of Irenaeus' exegesis -- Preaching the text -- Ontological meaning -- Joining the end to the beginning -- Index  Read more...