Oxford University Press, Date: 2005-01-06. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2005. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199275270 9780199275274 [US]

ISBN10: 0199275270, ISBN13: 9780199275274, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover
[Miami, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

OUP Oxford 2005 Revised ed. Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 346 p. Oxford Early Christian Studies.

ISBN10: 0199275270, ISBN13: 9780199275274, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover Book is in NEW condition.
[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

Oxford University Press, USA, December Date: 2004. Paper Back. New. When a theologian sings, a special order of attention is due: his teaching has been transmuted into praise. St. John of Damascus (+ ca. 750), whose writings are often (if erroneously) marked as the close of the Patristic Age, gave us not only some of the greatest dogmatic treatises of all time but also some of the most magnificent hymnography: the Paschal canon, the funeral canon, the canons on the Transfiguration and the Dormition of the Mother of God. Strangely, scholarly attention to him in the English-speaking world has been almost non-existent, a lack that this important study grandly remedies. The eminent British patristic scholar Andrew Louth gives us here a thorough examination of the life and theological contribution of the Damascene, defining his methodology, summarizing his descriptions of Christian heresies (including Islam), central theological themes (the Trinity, Creation and Humankind, the Incarnation, the defense of icons), and providing a portrait of St. John as homilist and poet. St. John has often been accused of being a slavish imitator of the ''more original'' theological work of earlier Fathers, but Louth's epigraph to his book (attributed to a certain Zissimos Lorenzatos) -- ''Originality means to remain faithful to the originals'' -- and the massive scholarship that follows, prove the hollowness of the claim. We will risk a stock description, ...

OUP Oxford 2005 Revised ed. Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 346 p. Oxford Early Christian Studies.

ISBN10: 0199275270, ISBN13: 9780199275274, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]
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ISBN10: 0199275270, ISBN13: 9780199275274, [publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.] Softcover Book has a small amount of shelf wear, binding is tight and pages are clean.
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