Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica: Collected Essays of Gilles Quispel. Edited by Johannesvan Oort
At the second Patristic Congress in Oxford in 1955, one of our St Andrews post-graduate students, an Australian, came out from one of the sessions full of enthusiasm for what he had just witnessed, and not a little awed. Professor Gilles Quispel from Utrecht had presented a paper in English, and in...
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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: 671-673 |
| Review of: | Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica (Leiden : Brill, 2008) (Wilson, R. McL)
Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica (Leiden : Brill, 2008) (Wilson, R. McL) Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica (Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2008) (Wilson, R. McL) |
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| Summary: | At the second Patristic Congress in Oxford in 1955, one of our St Andrews post-graduate students, an Australian, came out from one of the sessions full of enthusiasm for what he had just witnessed, and not a little awed. Professor Gilles Quispel from Utrecht had presented a paper in English, and in the subsequent discussion had engaged in debate, in French, with Cardinal Jean Daniélou from Paris and, in English, with the American scholar R. M. Grant, switching from one language to the other without the slightest hesitation. As the student remarked, had someone from Germany sought to intervene, Quispel would no doubt have answered him, with equal fluency, in German. In his preface (p. |
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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/flp089 |