Including Papers Presented at the Sixth British Patristics Conference, Birmingham, 5-7 September 2016

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Introduction
Teasing Out Meaning: Some Techniques and Procedures in Early Christian Exegesis
Taking Up Armour: The Challenges of Early Christian Exegesis of Ephesians
‘In Every Letter’? Some Possible Evidence for the Authorship of Ephesians
Leading Captivity Captive: Paul in Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho and the ‘Pauline Captivity’ Narrative
Athenagoras of Athens and the Genesis of Divine Simplicity in Christian Theology
Tertullian’s Martyrological Maxim: A Case Study for the Multiple Rhetorical Functions of the Command to ‘Render to Caesar the Th
Clement of Alexandria’s Conflicted Reception of ‘Children’ and ‘Fear’
‘For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face’ (1Cor. 13:12). Pauline Reception in Origen’s Commentary o
‘The Material of the Gifts from God’. Is the Spirit a Creature in Origen’s Commentary on the Gospel of John?
Origen and Astrology
Cyprian, Parenthood, and the Hebrew Bible: Modelling Munificence and Martyrdom
Orthodoxy, Heresy and Episcopal Authority in the Third-Century Church: The Debates between Cyprian of Carthage, the Laxist and t
Foolish Faith: Defending Christian Wisdom in Paul and Lactantius
Jerome’s and Ambrosiaster’s Interpretations of the Jerusalem Council’s Prohibitions (Acts 15:20, 29)
Historiographic Narratives on the Authority of Imperial Writings in Christian Polemics
Gregory Nazianzen’s Portrayal of Paul
Gregory Nazianzen: Interpreting the Human Eikon of God Literally as a Physical Bearer of God’s Presence
Chrysostom, Preaching and Jigsaws: Did John Chrysostom Preach on Scripture in Series?
Appealing to Antichrist: A Critical Examination of Donatist Juridical Appeals
The Cognitive Value of the Disciplines in Augustine’s Mature Works
Augustine on Faith and Evidence
Contra Domini uel Apostoli auctoritatem.The Authority of Paul in the Polemical Treatise De FideContra Manichaeos of Evodius of Uzalis
Whistling in the Exegetical Dark: The Latin Pseudo-Origen Commentary on Job
‘If you wish to contemplate God’: Pseudo-Dionysius on Will and Love
The Language of Love: Pseudo-Dionysius’ Detoxification of Eros in De Divinis Nominibus IV, 11–12
Different Accounts of the Martyrdom of St Paul andtheir Significance for the Epistola ad s. Timotheum dePassione Apostolorum Petri et Pauli Ascribed toDionysius the Areopagite
Three Practical Ways of Thinking about Virtue in Maximus the Confessor’s Cosmic and Ascetic Theology
Taming the Rhinoceros. Pauline Backings of Gregory’s Mission
Christ the Physician. Affliction and Spiritual Healing in Bede’s Homilies for Lent and Holy Week
‘It doesn’t say’: Metatextual Observations in Greek Patristic Commentaries on Galatians
A Unique Commentary Manuscript: GA 457 and the Pauline Catena Tradition
The Fate of Jerome’s Commentary on Haggai in the Early Middle Ages
‘The First Cause gives everything to all things, even to that which is nothing’: Origen of Alexandria and Meister Eckhart on Rom
Chrysostom’s Exegesis of Galatians: A Dubious Translation Tool for John Calvin
Alois Riegl, Henri Marrou, and Walter Benjamin: The Interplay of Modernity and Late Antiquity in Patristic Studies
Chrysostom and Chomsky: The Message of Social Justice and Economic Equality in the Twenty-First Century
Introducing the ITSEE Patristic Citations Database