List of Contributors List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: A Project in the Study of Christian Origins Lewis Ayres Part One: Reading Origen 2. Christ or Plato? Origen on Revelation and Anthropology Mark Edwards 3. Allegorical Reading and the Embodiment of the Soul in Origen David Dawson Part Two: Reading the Fourth Century 4. The Fourth Century as Trinitarian Canon Michel R. Barnes The Dog that Did not Bark: Doctrine and Patriarchal Authority in the Conflict between Theophilus of Alexandria and John Chrysostom of Constantinople Susanna Elm Gregory of Nyssa: The Force of Identity John Milbank 7. Constantine, Nicaea and the 'Fall' of the Church Daniel H. Williams Part Three: Christian Origins and the Western Tradition Denys and Aquinas: Antimodern Cold and Postmodern Hot Wayne Hankey Ascending Numbers: Augustine's De musica and the Western Tradition Catherine Pickstock Index.
Lewis Ayres is Lecturer in Christian doctrine at Trinity
College, Dublin. He is the editor of The Trinity: Classical and
Contemporary Readings (Oxford 1997) and The Passionate Intellect:
Essays on the Transformation of Classical Traditions (New Brunswick
NJ 1995) and the forthcoming Augustine's Trinitarian Theology.
Gareth Jones is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at the University
of Birmingham. He is critically acclaimed as one of the front rank
of contemporary theologians and he has written widely on systematic
and modern theology, including Critical Theology: Questions of
Truth and Mind (Polity Press 1995).
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