Publisher's Synopsis
The Patristic Symposium, St Patrick's College Maynooth, has produced this special volume in celebration of the 25th anniversary of its founding by D. Vincent Twomey SVD. Contents include: Christ the Gardener - Christus hortulanus * Jerome's De viris illustribus and Latin Perceptions of the New Testament's Canon * Mutual love: Locus of the Trinity in Augustine's De trinitate * The Controversies over Chalcedon and the Beginnings of Scholastic Theology: The Case of John Philoponus * Divine Genus - Divine Species: John Philoponus' Impact on Contemporary Chalcedonian Theology * Human Fulfillment in Maximus Confessor * Bede, Annus Domini, and the Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum * Adomnan on St. Columba as Imitator of Christ * Audience, Visuality and Naturalism: Depicting the Crucifixion in Tenth-Century Irish Art * Will of Man and Will of God in the Poetical Vision of Narekatsi * The Sources in the Earlier Latin Tradition of the References to Salvation in the Carmelite Rule * Augustine, Sixteenth-Century Reformations and Escaping Predestination * Franz Overbeck's Understanding of the Origins of Theology in the Patristic Period.
