Incomplete Commentary on Matthew (Opus imperfectum) (Ancient Christian Texts)

James A. Kellerman

ISBN 10: 0830829016 / ISBN 13: 9780830829019

Editore: IVP Academic, 2010

Editor(s): Oden, Thomas C. Translator(s): Kellerman, James A. Series: Ancient Christian Texts. BIC Classification: HRCG1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 676. . 2010. First Edition ( US ) First Printing. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Codice articolo V9780830829019

Riassunto:

In the translator's introduction to this volume, James Kellerman relates the following story: As Thomas Aquinas was approaching Paris, a fellow traveler pointed out the lovely buildings gracing that city. Aquinas was impressed, to be sure, but he sighed and stated that he would rather have the complete Incomplete Commentary on Matthew than to be mayor of Paris itself. Thomas's affection for the work attests its great popularity during the Middle Ages, despite its significant missing parts--everything beyond the end of Matthew 25, with further gaps of Matthew 8:11--10:15 and 13:14--18:35. Despite the gaps what remains is quite lengthy, so much so that we offer the work in two volumes, comprising fifty-four homilies. While the early-fifth-century author displays a few Arian propensities in a handful of passages, for the most part the commentary is moral in nature and therefore orthodox and generic. The unknown author, who for several centuries was thought to be John Chrysostom, follows the allegorizing method of the Alexandrians, but not by overlooking the literal meaning. His passion, above all, is to set forth the meaning of Matthew's Gospel for his readers. Here for the first time this ancient work is made available in English, ably translated by James A. Kellerman and edited by Thomas C. Oden. Ancient Christian Texts are new English translations of full-length commentaries or sermon series from ancient Christian authors that allow you to study key writings of the early church fathers in a fresh way.

Informazioni sugli autori:

James A. Kellerman (Ph.D., Loyola University--Chicago) serves as pastor of First Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Chicago, Illinois, and as adjunct assistant professor of Latin at Concordia University--Chicago.
Thomas C. Oden (1931–2016), was the general editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and the Ancient Christian Doctrine series as well as the author of Classic Christianity, a revision of his three-volume systematic theology. He was the director of the Center for Early African Christianity at Eastern University in Pennsylvania and he served as the Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Theology at The Theological School of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Oden was active in the Confessing Movement in America, particularly within the United Methodist Church and was president of The Institute for Classical Christian Studies. He suggested that Christians need to rely upon the wisdom of the historical Church, particularly the early Church, rather than on modern scholarship and theology and said his mission was "to begin to prepare the postmodern Christian community for its third millennium by returning again to the careful study and respectful following of the central tradition of classical Christianity."

James A. Kellerman (Ph.D., Loyola University---Chicago) serves as pastor of First Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Chicago, Illinois, and as adjunct assistant professor of Latin at Concordia University---Chicago.
Gerald L. Bray (Ph.D., University of Paris---Sorbonne) is director of research for The Latimer Trust, based in London, and a research professor at Samford University, teaching in the Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of The Doctrine of God, Biblical Interpretation: Past and Present and Creeds, Councils and Christ. He is editor for Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volumes on Romans, 1-2 Corinthians and James---Jude as well as volume editor for We Believe in One God in the Ancient Christian Doctrine series. A priest of the Church of England, Bray has also edited the post-Reformation Anglican canons.
Thomas C. Oden, formerly the Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Theology at The Theological School, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, is the general editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. The author of numerous books, including a highly regarded three-volume systematic theology, he also serves as director of the Center for Early African Christianity.

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Titolo: Incomplete Commentary on Matthew (Opus ...
Casa editrice: IVP Academic
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: New