Demonstrative Proof in Defence of God : A Study of Titus of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos - The Work's Sources, Aims and Relation to its Contemporary Theology /
This volume is the first extensive study of a Christian work from the 4th century, Titus of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos , which is the only text from the early Greek Church setting out a comprehensive theodicy. The study illuminates the text's relation to contemporary theology and philosoph...
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Language: English
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Leiden; Boston :
BRILL,
2004.
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Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ;
56.
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Call Number: BR65.T853
Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Summary of Contents
- Receptions, editions and scholarship history of Contra Manichaeos
- The historical and literary context for Titus of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos
- The audience for Contra Manichaeos and the portrayal of Manichaeism that Titus wished to present to them
- The Manichaean texts used by Titus of Bostra
- Titus of Bostra's philosophical position
- Titus of Bostra's interpretation of the Paradise narrative
- Comparison between the exegesis of Genesis in Titus of Bostra and in a number of writers in "the Antiochene School"
- Summary of the study's most important conclusions
- Critical examinations of the text
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Sources
- Index of Persons.