Research Catalog

Title

Doctrine and debate in the East Christian world, 300-1500 / edited by Averil Cameron and Robert Hoyland.

Publication

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Variorum, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cameron, Averil.
• Hoyland, Robert G., 1966-

Description

liv, 415 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

The worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300-1500 ; v. 12

Uniform Title

Worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300-1500 ; v. 12.

Subjects

• Church history
• Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Christianity > Middle East
• Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
• Eastern churches > History

Note

• Collection of papers by various authors, previously published between 1973 and 2011.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• English; some Syriac text.

Contents

Part 1. The formative period. The making of a heretic : the life of Origen in Epiphanius Panarion 64 / J. Rebecca Lyman -- Manichaeans and public disputation in late antiquity / Richard Lim -- The conversations with the Syrian Orthodox under Justinian (532) / Sebastian Brock -- Anti-Jewish polemic and the emergence of Islam / Vincent Déroche -- Part 2. The encounter with Islam. Byzantine accounts of Islam / Wolfgang Eichner -- Disputes with Muslims in Syriac Christian texts : from Patriarch John (d. 648) to Bar Hebraeus (d. 1286) / Sidney H. Griffith -- The signs of prophecy : the emergence and early development of a theme in Arabic theological literature / Sarah Stroumsa -- Reopening the Muslim-Christian dialogue of the 13th-14th centuries : critical reflections on Ibn Taymiyyah's response to Christianity / Nancy N. Roberts -- Part 3. Iconoclasm. A dark-age crisis : aspects of the iconoclastic controversy / Peter Brown -- Texts as weapons : polemic in the Byzantine Dark Ages / Averil Cameron -- Part 4. Anti-Latin texts. Byzantine perceptions of Latin religious 'errors' / Tia M. Kolbaba -- Part 5. The tools of argument. Dyophysite Florilegia of the fifth and sixth centuries CE / Marcel Richard -- The saint, the scholar and the astrologer : a study of hagiographical themes in some 'question and answer' collections of the fifth-seventh centuries CE / Gilbert Dagron -- The first Christians Summa theologiae in Arabic : Christian kalām in ninth-century palestine / Sidney H. Griffith -- Communal identity and the systematisation of knowledge in the Syriac 'cause of all causes' / G.J. Reinink -- Abdallah ibn al-Faḍl's exposition of the Orthodox faith / Ramy Wannous.

Call Number

JFF 14-325

ISBN

• 9781409400349 (hbk.)
• 1409400344 (hbk.)

LCCN

2011928647

OCLC

773025523

Title

Doctrine and debate in the East Christian world, 300-1500 / edited by Averil Cameron and Robert Hoyland.

Imprint

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Variorum, c2011.

Series

The worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300-1500 ; v. 12

Worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300-1500 ; v. 12.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

English; some Syriac text.

Added Author

Cameron, Averil.

Hoyland, Robert G., 1966-

Research Call Number

JFF 14-325