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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| The Birth of Church History and its Sequel | |
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| Eusebius of Caesarea | |
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| Life | |
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| The Ecclesiastical History and earlier historical writings | |
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| Apologetic works | |
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| Political writings | |
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| Eusebius' Christology | |
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| Eusebius as a biblical scholar | |
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| Eusebius' Successors | |
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| Socrates Scholasticus | |
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| Philostorgius | |
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| Sozomen | |
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| Theodoret | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Athanasius and the Shaping of Nicene Theology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Arius | |
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| Athanasius: The Legend and the Critique | |
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| The Fundamentals of Athanasius' Theology: Contra Gentes - De Incarnatione | |
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| Marcellus: Ally or Embarrassment? | |
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| Orations against the Arians | |
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| Self-Justification, Retrospective History and Shifting Theological Alliances | |
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| Other Works | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Heroes of the Faith: the Literature of the Desert | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Athanasius and the Life of Antony | |
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| The Histories: the Lausiac History and the Historia Monachorum | |
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| The Apophthegmata Patrum | |
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| Origins, critical questions, historicity | |
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| The world of the Apophthegmata | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Didymus the Blind | |
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| Didymus the teacher | |
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| Literary works | |
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| Contribution to doctrine | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Evagrius Ponticus | |
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| Life and influences | |
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| Writings | |
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| Interpreting Evagrius | |
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| Imageless prayer | |
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| The 'Macarian' Homilies | |
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| Critical questions | |
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| Ascetic teaching | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Theodoret's Historia Religiosa | |
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| The Cappadocians | |
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| Biographical | |
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| Withdrawal and Involvement | |
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| Christianity and Contemporary Culture | |
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| Basil and the Ascetic Movement | |
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| The Dogmatic Debates | |
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| Eunomius | |
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| The Pneumatomachi | |
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| Apollinarius | |
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| Gregory the Theologian | |
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| Gregory of Nyssa and Neoplatonic Mysticism | |
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| Preachers and Teachers of the Church | |
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| The Temper of the Times: Some Contrasting Characters of the Late Fourth Century | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ephrem the Syrian | |
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| Ephrem's place in this collection | |
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| Life | |
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| Writings | |
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| Thinking through types and symbols | |
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| Language and theology | |
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| The confluence of traditions in Ephrem's distinctive voice | |
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| Cyril of Jerusalem | |
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| Epiphanius of Salamis | |
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| The Ancoratus | |
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| The Panarion | |
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| Early life | |
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| Other works | |
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| The Origenist controversy | |
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| John Chrysostom | |
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| The Origenist controversy | |
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| Chrysostom and Christian morals | |
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| The goodness of God | |
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| Chrysostom's Christology | |
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| Sacramental doctrine | |
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| Chrysostom's sermons and their hearers | |
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| Nemesius of Emesa | |
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| The identity of Nemesius | |
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| The work's purpose | |
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| A human being is a unity | |
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| Ethical and theological implications | |
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| Synesius of Cyrene | |
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| The Literature of Christological Controversy | |
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| Introduction: Eustathius | |
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| Apollinarius and Diodore | |
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| Apollinarius and the Alexandrian tradition | |
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| Problems of interpretation | |
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| The union of Christ | |
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| Diodore of Tarsus | |
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| Diodore's Christology | |
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| Theodore of Mopsuestia | |
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| Interpretation of scripture | |
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| Christology | |
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| A rounded view of Christianity | |
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| Polemical Correspondence and a Pamphlet War | |
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| The letters | |
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| The Twelve Anathemas | |
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| Nestorius | |
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| The sources | |
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| Nestorius' position in the controversy | |
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| His own doctrinal position | |
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| Cyril of Alexandria | |
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| Cyril's reputation | |
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| Earlier years | |
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| Old Testament exegesis | |
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| Doctrinal debate and a 'more dogmatic exegesis' | |
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| The Nestorian controversy | |
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| Cyril, Athanasius and Apollinarius | |
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| Against Julian | |
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| Theodoret of Cyrus | |
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| Life | |
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| His theological position | |
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| The Expositio recta fidei | |
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| The Eranistes | |
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| Biblical exegesis | |
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| Other works | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Subjects and Names | |
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| Index of Modern Authors | |
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| Select Index of Greek Words | |