The Early Church at Work and Worship - Volume 3

by Everett Ferguson

Overview

This is the third volume of Ferguson's collected essays, and includes some of his most memorable work, especially on "laying on of hands."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608993666
Publisher:	Cascade Books
Publication date:	10/19/2017
Pages:	410
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Everett Ferguson is Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Abilene Christian University. He was editor of The Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (2nd ed., 1997) and is author of many works including Early Christians Speak (2 vols., 1999, 2002); Backgrounds of Early Christianity (3rd ed., 2003); Inheriting Wisdom: Readings for Today from Ancient Christian Writers (2004); Church History, vol. 1, From Christ to Pre-Reformation (2005); and Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries (2009). Ferguson received the “Distinguished Service Award” from the North American Patristics Society (2008) and the “Vestigia Award for Excellence in Early Christian Studies and Service to the Church” from the Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies (2002).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations xii

Preface xiii

1 Spiritual Sacrifice in Early Christianity and Its Environment 1

2 Praising God with "One Mouth" / "One Voice" 45

3 The Liturgical Function of the Sursum Corda 62

4 The Lord's Supper in Church History: The Early Church through the Medieval Period 67

5 A Response to Robin Darling Young on The Eucharist as Sacrifice according to Clement of Alexandria 97

6 Psalm-Singing at the Eucharist: A Liturgical Controversy in the Fourth Century 107

7 The Art of Praise: Philo and Philodemus on Music 127

8 Toward a Patristic Theology of Music 164

9 The Active and Contemplative Lives: The Patristic Interpretation of Some Musical Terms 185

10 Athanasius' Epistola ad Marcellinum in Interpretationem Psalmorum, Part I 197

11 Athanasius, Epistola Ad Marcellinum in Interpretationem Psalmorum, Part II 214

12 Words from the Ψαλ- Root in Gregory of Nyssa 241

13 Progress in Perfection: Gregory of Nyssa's Vita Moysis 253

14 God's Infinity and Man's Mutability: Perpetual Progress according to Gregory of Nyssa 262

15 Some Aspects of Gregory of Nyssa's Moral Theology in the Homilies on Ecclesiastes 282

16 Some Aspects of Gregory of Nyssa's Interpretation of Scripture Exemplified in his Homilies on Ecclesiastes 298

17 Images of the Incarnation in Gregory of Nyssa's Vita Moysis 304

Bibliography 325

Subject index 339

Ancient Sources Index 359

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Since the middle of the last century, no scholar of early Christianity has been more respected, even revered, than Everett Ferguson. He has displayed in his life and his many writings that the gift of the early church to Christians today is not only its theological ideas, but its testimony to the lived reality of Christian faith. In this edifying volume of essays, with essays on psalm-singing, spiritual sacrifice, the art of praise, active and contemplative lives, Ferguson, a wise teacher of our age, invites readers to contemplate the depth and richness of the church’s first teachers.”

—Robert Louis Wilken, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, University of Virginia

Editorial Reviews

Since the middle of the last century, no scholar of early Christianity has been more respected, even revered, than Everett Ferguson. He has displayed in his life and his many writings that the gift of the early church to Christians today is not only its theological ideas, but its testimony to the lived reality of Christian faith. In this edifying volume of essays, with essays on psalm-singing, spiritual sacrifice, the art of praise, active and contemplative lives, Ferguson, a wise teacher of our age, invites readers to contemplate the depth and richness of the church’s first teachers.”

—Robert Louis Wilken, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, University of Virginia

From the Publisher