... priest and higoumen Bathrellos D Tollefsen T T Berthold G C Boudignon C Constas N Jeauneau É Larchet J C Lot Borodine M Meyendorff J Ponsoye E Prassas D Sotiropoulos C Vinel F Athanasopoulos C Schneider C Walls J apocatastasis eschaton eschatology mystagogy salvation ecclesial...

... of Alexandria Song of Songs symbol Old Testament spiritual senses Ayres Lewis Young Frances Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture eschatology mystagogy union with God McGinn Bernard erotic mysticism grace mysticism Song of Songs commentaries on Turner Denys creation cosmos...

... by pro-Nicene authors such as Hilary and Ephrem is described, then, as a “defensive measure.” Within this polemical context some early attempts at congregational song are examined to argue that they anticipate the link between hymnodic mystagogy and doctrinal formation that are identified in Ambrose’s...

... readings in these manuscripts reveal the close connection between the structure of the eucharistic liturgy and Jerusalem’s calendar and lectionary. The chapter then presents hymns from the Liturgy of St James. With the decline of catecheses and mystagogies in Jerusalem after the Arab conquest, liturgical...

...This chapter primarily examines the Byzantine tradition of mystagogy in relation to Eucharistic liturgy as part of the study of the relationship between the vestments' embroidered images and the church iconography. The visual representation of the church decorations by itself is not enough...

... Theokritoff E Vinel F Neil B Mystagogy Chalcedonian Christology Christian anthropology soteriology praxis cosmology The purpose of this chapter is to explore the liturgical dimension of the theological vision of Maximus the Confessor (c.580–662), highlighting its...

... Cyril of Jerusalem devil Easter Egeria Eunomians exorcism John Chrysostom Lent mystagogy Pentecost Pilgrimage of Egeria Theodore of Mopsuestia Theophany feast traditio symboli Trinity Adam Colossians 3 9 creation Exodus flood typology Jordan river typology Mystagogical Catecheses...

... to Maximus’s Mystagogy, a commentary on the Eucharistic rite that, for the first time, reconciled the ascetic anthropology of Evagrius Ponticus with the liturgical theology of Pseudo-Dionysius and therein presented a vision of an orthodox church unified against all external pollutants. Avars...

... the existential. Dumitru Staniloae, the Romanian Orthodox professor, advanced the Christological and patristic grounding of sacramentology. Constantin Andronikof, a French civil servant, synthesized several of these approaches and added an apologetic bent. Some display an appreciation for mystagogy; others do...

... of Malmesbury Paschasius Radbertus Matter Ann Widdicombe Peter Ambrose mystagogy catechism baptism mysticism Virgin Mary Milan Jovinian marriage virginity In the previous chapter, I demonstrated how Ambrose’s earliest use of the Song of Songs was bound up with his struggle to promote an ascetic...

...Maximus’ ecclesiology is thoroughly “cosmic” and liturgico-centric. The Church in heaven and on earth is strategically both the theatre of the cosmic liturgy of praise and an active participant therein. In liturgy, the Church hosts both asceticism and mystagogy, and Maximus’ commentary...