The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics

This comprehensive volume brings together a team of distinguished scholars to create a wide-ranging introduction to patristic authors and their contributions to not only theology and spirituality, but to philosophy, ecclesiology, linguistics, hagiography, liturgics, homiletics, iconology, and other fields.

• Challenges accepted definitions of patristics and the patristic period – in particular questioning the Western framework in which the field has traditionally been constructed
• Includes the work of authors who wrote in languages other than Latin and Greek, including those within the Coptic, Armenian, Syriac, and Arabic Christian traditions
• Examines the reception history of prominent as well as lesser-known figures, debating the role of each, and exploring why many have undergone periods of revived interest
• Offers synthetic accounts of a number of topics central to patristic studies, including scripture, scholasticism, and the Reformation
• Demonstrates the continuing role of these writings in enriching and inspiring our understanding of Christianity

Keywords: Patristics; Byzantine Florilegia; Patrologies; Irenaeus of Lyons; Clement of Alexandria; Origen of Alexandria; Athanasius of Alexandria; Ephrem of Nisibis; John Chrysostom; Augustine of Hippo; Cyril of Alexandria; Shenoute of Atripe; Nestorius of Constantinople; Dionysius the Areopagite; Severus of Antioch; Gregory the Great; Maximos the Confessor; John of Damascus; Gregory of Narek; Gregory Palamas; Cappadocian Fathers; Desert Fathers; Desert Mothers; Iconophile Fathers; Greek Fathers; Church Councils, Systematic Theology, Systematic Theology