God in Early Christian Thought: Essays in Memory of Lloyd G. Patterson

CONTENTS......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Who is the Demiurge? Irenaeus' Picture of God in Adversus haereses 2 (Richard A. Norris)......Page 16
God Beyond Knowing: Clement of Alexandria and Discourse (Annewies van den Hoek)......Page 44
God in Early Latin Theology: Tertullian and the Trinity (Andrew B. McGowan)......Page 68
Knowing God in the Theological Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus: the Heritage of Origen (Joseph W. Trigg)......Page 90
God and Methodius: Use of, and Background to, the Term … as a Description of God in the Works of Methodius of Olympus (Katherina Bracht)......Page 112
Patristic Exegesis and the Arithmetic of the Divine from the Apologists to Athanasius (James D. Ernest)......Page 130
The Holy Spirit in Gregory Nazianzen: The Pneumatology of Oration 31 (Christopher A. Beeley)......Page 158
Divine Semiotics and the Way to the Triune God in Augustine's De Trinitate (Khaled Anatolios)......Page 170
Ephrem's Doctrine of God (Ute Possekel)......Page 202
Trinitarian Theology in Early Christian Anaphoras (Robert J. Daly S.J)......Page 246
Theophany and the Invisible God in Early Christian Theology and Art (Robin M. Jensen)......Page 278
God and the Poor in Early Christian Thought (Susan R. Holman)......Page 304
The Persons in God and the Person of Christ in Patristic Theology: An Argument for Parallel Development (Brian E. Daley S.J)......Page 330
God and Storms in Early Christian Thought (Robert M. Grant)......Page 358
Bibliography......Page 368
Biblical and Para-Biblical Literature......Page 382
Index Rerum......Page 402