Including Papers Presented at the Sixth British Patristics Conference, Birmingham, 5-7 September 2016

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This one-hundredth volume of Studia Patristica includes papers from the Sixth British Patristics conference, held in Birmingham in September 2016. Thirty-seven contributions from an international range of scholars provide new studies of many of the major subjects in patristic studies, from Tertullian to Maximus the Confessor by way of Origen, John Chrysostom, Jerome and Augustine. One theme of the conference, which was held in conjunction with the European Research Council COMPAUL project, was the tradition and reception of the letters of the Apostle Paul. This is reflected in several papers, including an examination of patristic evidence for the authorship of Ephesians and an analysis of exegetical techniques employed in the Greek catena tradition on Galatians. Two longer contributions, by plenary speakers Frances Young and Jennifer Strawbridge, offer an extended consideration of the early Christian exegesis of particular Pauline Epistles. Table of Contents Abbreviations Introduction Teasing Out Meaning: Some Techniques and Procedures in Early Christian Exegesis Taking Up Armour: The Challenges of Early Christian Exegesis of Ephesians ‘In Every Letter’? Some Possible Evidence for the Authorship of Ephesians Leading Captivity Captive: Paul in Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho and the ‘Pauline Captivity’ Narrative Athenagoras of Athens and the Genesis of Divine Simplicity in Christian Theology Tertullian’s Martyrological Maxim: A Case Study for the Multiple Rhetorical Functions of the Command to ‘Render to Caesar the Th Clement of Alexandria’s Conflicted Reception of ‘Children’ and ‘Fear’ ‘For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face’ (1Cor. 13:12). Pauline Reception in Origen’s Commentary o ‘The Material of the Gifts from God’. Is the Spirit a Creature in Origen’s Commentary on the Gospel of John? Origen and Astrology Cyprian, Parenthood, and the Hebrew Bible: Modelling Munificence and Martyrdom Orthodoxy, Heresy and Episcopal Authority in the Third-Century Church: The Debates between Cyprian of Carthage, the Laxist and t Foolish Faith: Defending Christian Wisdom in Paul and Lactantius Jerome’s and Ambrosiaster’s Interpretations of the Jerusalem Council’s Prohibitions (Acts 15:20, 29) Historiographic Narratives on the Authority of Imperial Writings in Christian Polemics Gregory Nazianzen’s Portrayal of Paul Gregory Nazianzen: Interpreting the Human Eikon of God Literally as a Physical Bearer of God’s Presence Chrysostom, Preaching and Jigsaws: Did John Chrysostom Preach on Scripture in Series? Appealing to Antichrist: A Critical Examination of Donatist Juridical Appeals The Cognitive Value of the Disciplines in Augustine’s Mature Works Augustine on Faith and Evidence Contra Domini uel Apostoli auctoritatem.The Authority of Paul in the Polemical Treatise De FideContra Manichaeos of Evodius of Uzalis Whistling in the Exegetical Dark: The Latin Pseudo-Origen Commentary on Job ‘If you wish to contemplate God’: Pseudo-Dionysius on Will and Love The Language of Love: Pseudo-Dionysius’ Detoxification of Eros in De Divinis Nominibus IV, 11–12 Different Accounts of the Martyrdom of St Paul andtheir Significance for the Epistola ad s. Timotheum dePassione Apostolorum Petri et Pauli Ascribed toDionysius the Areopagite Three Practical Ways of Thinking about Virtue in Maximus the Confessor’s Cosmic and Ascetic Theology Taming the Rhinoceros. Pauline Backings of Gregory’s Mission Christ the Physician. Affliction and Spiritual Healing in Bede’s Homilies for Lent and Holy Week ‘It doesn’t say’: Metatextual Observations in Greek Patristic Commentaries on Galatians A Unique Commentary Manuscript: GA 457 and the Pauline Catena Tradition The Fate of Jerome’s Commentary on Haggai in the Early Middle Ages ‘The First Cause gives everything to all things, even to that which is nothing’: Origen of Alexandria and Meister Eckhart on Rom Chrysostom’s Exegesis of Galatians: A Dubious Translation Tool for John Calvin Alois Riegl, Henri Marrou, and Walter Benjamin: The Interplay of Modernity and Late Antiquity in Patristic Studies Chrysostom and Chomsky: The Message of Social Justice and Economic Equality in the Twenty-First Century Introducing the ITSEE Patristic Citations Database