Prayer and the transformation of the self in early Christian mystagogy

Prayer and the transformation of the self in early Christian mystagogy /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Loon, Hans van, 1951- (Editor), Nie, Giselle de (Editor), Op de Coul, Michiel (Editor), Egmond, Peter van (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leuven ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2018.
Series:Late antique history and religion ; 18.
Late antique history and religion. Mystagogy of the church fathers ; 5.
Subjects:
30-600
Prayer > Christianity > History > Early church, ca. 30-600 > Congresses.
Mystagogy > Christianity > History > Early church, ca. 30-600 > Congresses.
Identity (Psychology) > Religious aspects > Christianity > Congresses.
Fathers of the church > Congresses.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. In oratione forma est desideriorum. The Transformation of the Self and the Practice of Prayer in Early Christian Mystagogy: An Introduction / Giselle de Nie
  • 2. From Sacrificial Reciprocity to Mystagogy: Communal and Individual Initiation through Prayer / Gerard Rouwhorst
  • pt. 1 Beginnings
  • 3. `So on Earth: Liturgy from Heaven / Henk Barker
  • 4. Scripture as Initiator, Standard, and Prototype of Prayer in Clement of Rome's First Letter to the Corinthians / Benno Zuiddam
  • 5. Prayer and Participation in the Eucharist in the Work of Ignatius ofAntioch / Peter-Ben Smit
  • pt. 2 Eastern Fathers
  • 6. Origen on Parables and Prayer: Tensions between the Esoteric and the Universal / Marcel Poorthuis
  • 7. Remembering God: Basil the Greats Mystagogy of Prayer Ill / Michel Van Parys
  • 8. Gregory of Nyssa as a Mystagogue: Macrina's Final Prayer in Context / Nienke Vos
  • 9. Descending to Ascend: Prayer as Initiation into Divine Judgement in the Apophthegmata Patrum / Joseph Lucas
  • 10. John Chrysostom on Prayer, Song, Music, and Dance / Henk van Vreeswijk
  • 11. `In the Posture of One Who Prays': The Orans Position in Theodore of Mopsuestia's Baptismal Rite / Nathan Witkamp
  • 12. Prayer and Fasting in Cyril of Alexandria's Festal Letters / Hans van Loon
  • pt. 3 Western Fathers
  • 13. Concluding Prayers in Ambrose's De institutione virginis and Exhortatio virginitatis / Metha Hokke
  • 14. `Ergo sic time Dominum, ut speres in misericordia eius (En. in ps. 146.20): Augustine on the Relationship between the Fear of God and Personal Prayer / Paul van Geest
  • 15. Spiritui requies adauirenda est: Augustine and the Prayer for the Deceased / Paula Rose
  • 16. Prayer, Desire, and the Image of God: Augustine's Longing for God in His `Prayer to the Holy Trinity' / Laela Zwollo
  • pt. 4 Comparisons
  • 17. Lord's Prayer as Mystagogy from Origen to Maximus / Andrew Louth
  • 18. West and East: Prayer and Cosmos in Augustine and Maximus Confessor / Willemien Otten
  • 19. Mystagogical Psychology of the Greek Fathers and Prayer: A Diachronic Study / Michael Barker
  • pt. 5 Reception
  • 20. Prayer Images as Transformers in Gregory of Tours: Desert and Relic Cult Traditions / Giselle de Nie
  • 21. `The Desert', Sensory Delight, and Prayer in the Augustinian Renewal of the Twelfth Century / Mary Carruthers.

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