The Patristic Age
The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church is a multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old that canvasses the history of preaching from the words of Moses at Mount Sinai through modern times. Volume 2, The Patristic Age, continues Old's historical survey by focusing on preaching as it was developed and practiced by the Greek schools of Alexandria and Antioch. Old then goes on to consider preaching in the Syriac church and the flourishing of Latin preaching in the Christian Empire, concluding with the ministries of Leo the Great, Peter Chrysologos, and Gregory the Great.
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The Patristic Age
The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church is a multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old that canvasses the history of preaching from the words of Moses at Mount Sinai through modern times. Volume 2, The Patristic Age, continues Old's historical survey by focusing on preaching as it was developed and practiced by the Greek schools of Alexandria and Antioch. Old then goes on to consider preaching in the Syriac church and the flourishing of Latin preaching in the Christian Empire, concluding with the ministries of Leo the Great, Peter Chrysologos, and Gregory the Great.
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The Patristic Age

The Patristic Age

by Hughes Oliphant Old
The Patristic Age

The Patristic Age

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The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church is a multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old that canvasses the history of preaching from the words of Moses at Mount Sinai through modern times. Volume 2, The Patristic Age, continues Old's historical survey by focusing on preaching as it was developed and practiced by the Greek schools of Alexandria and Antioch. Old then goes on to consider preaching in the Syriac church and the flourishing of Latin preaching in the Christian Empire, concluding with the ministries of Leo the Great, Peter Chrysologos, and Gregory the Great.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780802843579
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date: 02/01/1998
Series: Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures Series , #2
Pages: 492
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.08(d)

About the Author

Hughes Oliphant Old (1933–2016) was John H. Leith Professor of Reformed Theology and Dean of the Institute for Reformed Worship, Erskine Theological Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina.

Table of Contents

Chapter IThe Flourishing of Greek Preaching in the Christian Empire--the School of Alexandria1
I.Cyril of Jerusalem3
A.Catechetical Sermons5
B.Preaching as Mystagogy18
II.The Cappadocian Fathers32
A.Basil of Caesarea33
B.Gregory of Nazianzus61
C.Gregory of Nyssa82
D.The Festal Calendar of the Cappadocians95
E.The Ministry of the Word as Worship105
III.Cyril of Alexandria108
A.Cyril as Interpreter of Scripture110
B.Cyril as Preacher111
C.Cyril's Sermons on Luke as Doctrinal Preaching114
D.Cyril's Sermons on Luke as the Preaching of the Christian Life120
IV.Hesychius of Jerusalem125
A.Regular Expository Preaching in the Church of Jerusalem128
B.The Sermons on Job129
Chapter IIThe Jerusalem Lectionary in the Fifth Century135
I.The Journals of Etheria136
II.Scripture Readings for Feast Days143
III.The Festal Preaching of Hesychius160
Chapter IIIThe Flourishing of Greek Preaching in the Christian Empire--the School of Antioch167
I.John Chrysostom171
A.Sermons on Genesis--the Graciousness of God's Word174
B.Sermons on the Statues189
C.Catechetical Sermons196
D.Sermons on Colossians and Chrysostom's Social Hermeneutic202
E.The Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom218
II.Theodore of Mopsuestia223
A.Catechetical Sermons224
B.Antiochene Theology of Worship228
III.Theodoret of Cyrus234
A.Learned Preaching235
B.Sermons on Providence and the Antiochene Theology of Evangelism237
Chapter IVThe Syriac Church247
I.Ephrem of Nisibis249
A.Ephrem as Biblical Scholar251
B.The Hymns on Paradise253
C.Ephrem's Doctrine of Scripture255
D.Homiletical Poetry264
II.Narsai268
III.Philoxenus of Mabbug274
IV.The Syriac Lectionaries277
A.The Lectionary of Mosul278
B.The Lectionary of Athanasius V292
Chapter VThe Latin Fathers297
I.Ambrose300
A.Sermons on Luke301
B.The Sermon against Auxentius315
C.Preaching as Mystagogy317
II.Jerome325
III.Maximus of Turin340
IV.Augustine344
A.Eloquia Dei344
B.Expository Preaching345
C.Festal Sermons368
D.Introducing the Faith382
E.On the Art of Christian Teaching: Exegesis, Hermeneutic, and Rhetoric386
F.Theologia Verbi Dei397
Chapter VIThe Eternal Gospel in a Dying Culture399
I.Leo the Great401
A.Leo's Festal Cycle402
B.The Predominance of a Penitential Approach to Worship411
II.Peter Chrysologus416
III.Gregory the Great425
A.Sermons on the Roman Lectionary428
B.Sermons on Ezekiel437
C.Theology of the Word440
D.The Word as Worship454
Bibliography459
Index473
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