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Prayer and the transformation of the self in early Christian mystagogy / edited by Hans van Loon, Giselle de Nie, Michiel Op de Coul, and Peter van Egmond ; foreword by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony.

Contributor(s): Loon, Hans van, 1951- [editor.] | Nie, Giselle de [editor.] | Op de Coul, Michiel [editor.] | Van Egmond, Peter [editor.] | Bitton-Ashkelony, Bruria [writer of foreword.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Late antique history and religion: vol. 18.; Late antique history and religion: vol. 5.Publisher: Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xxvii, 482 pages : illustration ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789042936119; 9042936118Subject(s): Prayer -- Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses | Mystagogy -- Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses | Identity (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Congresses | Fathers of the church -- CongressesDDC classification: 270 LOC classification: BR67 | .P739 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-445) and indexes.
Contents:
Discerning mystagogia and pedagogia: prayer and the transformation of the self in early Christian mystagogy -- Foreword by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony -- In oratione forma est desideriorum. The Transformation of the self and the practice of prayer in early Christian mystagogy: an introduction / Paul van Geest and Giselle de Nie -- From sacrificial reciprocity to mystagogy: communal and individual initiation through prayer / Gerard Rouwhorst -- 'So on Earth': liturgy from heaven / Henk Bakker -- Scripture as initiator, standard, and prototype of prayer in Clement of Rome's First Letter to the Corinthians / Benno Zuiddam -- Prayer and participation in the Eucharist in the Work of Ignatius of Antioch / Peter-Ben Smit -- Origen on parables and prayer: tensions between the esoteric and the universal / Marcel Poorthuis -- Remembering God: Basil the Great's mystagogy of prayer / Michel Van Parys OSB- - Gregory of Nyssa as a mystagogue: Macrina's final prayer in context / Nienke Vos -- Descending to ascend: prayer as initiation into divine judgement in the apophthegmata patrum / Joseph Lucas -- John Chrysostom on prayer, song, music, and dance / Henk van Vreeswijk -- 'In the Posture of One Who Prays': The Orans position in Theodore of Mopsuestia's Baptismal Rite / Nathan Witkamp -- Prayer and fasting in Cyril of Alexandria's festal letters / Hans van Loon -- The concluding prayers in Ambrose's De institutione virginis and Exhortatio virginitatis / Metha Hokke -- . 'Ergo sic time Dominum, ut speres in misericordia eius' (En. in ps. 146.20): Augustine on the relationship between the fear of God and personal prayer / Paul van Geest -- Spiritui requies adquirenda est: Augustine and the prayer for the deceased / Paula Rose -- Prayer, desire, and the Image of God: Augustine's Longing for God in His 'Prayer to the Holy Trinity' / Laela Zwollo-- The Lord's Prayer as mystagogy from Origen to Maximus / Andrew Louth -- West and East: prayer and cosmos in Augustine and Maximus Confessor / Willemien Otten -- The mystagogical psychology of the Greek Fathers and prayer: a diachronic study / Michael Bakker -- Prayer images as transformers in Gregory of Tours: desert and relic cult traditions / Giselle de Nie -- 'The Desert', sensory delight, and prayer in the Augustinian renewal of the Twelfth Century / Mary Carruthers.

"Most articles in this volume were originally presented as papers at the Second International Congress of the Netherlands Centre for Patristic Research, held in Utrecht on 26-29 August 2014 under the title "The Early Christian Mystagogy of Prayer".--Acknowledgements."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-445) and indexes.

Discerning mystagogia and pedagogia: prayer and the transformation of the self in early Christian mystagogy -- Foreword by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony -- In oratione forma est desideriorum. The Transformation of the self and the practice of prayer in early Christian mystagogy: an introduction / Paul van Geest and Giselle de Nie -- From sacrificial reciprocity to mystagogy: communal and individual initiation through prayer / Gerard Rouwhorst -- 'So on Earth': liturgy from heaven / Henk Bakker -- Scripture as initiator, standard, and prototype of prayer in Clement of Rome's First Letter to the Corinthians / Benno Zuiddam -- Prayer and participation in the Eucharist in the Work of Ignatius of Antioch / Peter-Ben Smit -- Origen on parables and prayer: tensions between the esoteric and the universal / Marcel Poorthuis -- Remembering God: Basil the Great's mystagogy of prayer / Michel Van Parys OSB- - Gregory of Nyssa as a mystagogue: Macrina's final prayer in context / Nienke Vos -- Descending to ascend: prayer as initiation into divine judgement in the apophthegmata patrum / Joseph Lucas -- John Chrysostom on prayer, song, music, and dance / Henk van Vreeswijk -- 'In the Posture of One Who Prays': The Orans position in Theodore of Mopsuestia's Baptismal Rite / Nathan Witkamp -- Prayer and fasting in Cyril of Alexandria's festal letters / Hans van Loon -- The concluding prayers in Ambrose's De institutione virginis and Exhortatio virginitatis / Metha Hokke -- . 'Ergo sic time Dominum, ut speres in misericordia eius' (En. in ps. 146.20): Augustine on the relationship between the fear of God and personal prayer / Paul van Geest -- Spiritui requies adquirenda est: Augustine and the prayer for the deceased / Paula Rose -- Prayer, desire, and the Image of God: Augustine's Longing for God in His 'Prayer to the Holy Trinity' / Laela Zwollo-- The Lord's Prayer as mystagogy from Origen to Maximus / Andrew Louth -- West and East: prayer and cosmos in Augustine and Maximus Confessor / Willemien Otten -- The mystagogical psychology of the Greek Fathers and prayer: a diachronic study / Michael Bakker -- Prayer images as transformers in Gregory of Tours: desert and relic cult traditions / Giselle de Nie -- 'The Desert', sensory delight, and prayer in the Augustinian renewal of the Twelfth Century / Mary Carruthers.

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