In the Shadow of the Incarnation: Essays on Jesus Christ in the Early Church in Honor of Brian E. Daley, S.J. Edited by Peter W. Martens
Here is a good collection of essays, which should please its distinguished dedicatee. The notion of ‘shadow’ is based on a christological whimsy of Origen (see p. 3). The introduction is a short and merited tribute to Brian Daley by Martens himself; this is supported by a bibliography of his books a...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 669-671 |
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| Summary: | Here is a good collection of essays, which should please its distinguished dedicatee. The notion of ‘shadow’ is based on a christological whimsy of Origen (see p. 3). The introduction is a short and merited tribute to Brian Daley by Martens himself; this is supported by a bibliography of his books and articles on pp. 276–81. The essays vary in approach and slightly in quality, and are not all exactly christological. D. Jeffrey Bingham, on ‘The Apocalypse, Christ and the Martyrs of Gaul’, claims that the martyrology of ad 177 presents the martyrs as exhibiting the final struggle between Christ and the powers of evil, in terms of the Johannine Apocalypse. It is a good idea, but enthusiasm has led to some hasty scholarship. Some uneasy translations and an error in the Greek (Eusebius, HE V.1. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp083 |