The vision of Didymus the Blind: a fourth-century virtue-Origenism
An independent teacher, based in Alexandria throughout the second half of the fourth century, Didymus appealed to many within the broadly Origenist currents of Egyptian asceticism, including Jerome, Rufinus, and Evagrius. His commentaries, lecture-notes, and theological treatises show him specifical...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | The Vision of Didymus the Blind: A Fourth-Century Virtue-Origenism, Grant D. Bayliss, Oxford University Press, 2015 (ISBN 978-0-19-874789-5), xv + 273, hb £65 (2017) (O'Leary, Joseph Stephen, 1949 -)
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford theology and religion monographs
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Didymus, Caecus 313-398
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAA Church history |
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Didymus the Blind (approximately 313-approximately 398)
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| Summary: | An independent teacher, based in Alexandria throughout the second half of the fourth century, Didymus appealed to many within the broadly Origenist currents of Egyptian asceticism, including Jerome, Rufinus, and Evagrius. His commentaries, lecture-notes, and theological treatises show him specifically committed to the legacy of Origen and Philo, rather than a broader 'Alexandrian' or noetic reading of Scripture. Yet his concern was not to answer classic 'Antiochene' critique but rather offer a faithful continuation of many aspects of Origen's thought and exegesis, now made consistent with the broader anti-subordinationist developments in Nicene faith from the 350s onwards. In doing so he made virtue a primary category of reality, human existence, and life, in ways that go beyond the traditional philosophical tropes Part I : Background -- Didymus through the eyes of others -- Teaching virtue -- Footprints in the sand : assessing the Didymean corpus -- Reading virtue : Didymus and 'elevated' exegesis -- Part II : Didymus and the doctrine of virtue -- Virtue, reality, and the pre-existence of the soul -- The call to virtue -- Numbering the virtues -- Part III : Didymus and the doctrine of sin -- Psychology and the pathology of sin -- The doctrine of pre-passion -- Interpreting 'original' sin |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 0198747896 |