Coptic christology in practice : incarnation and divine participation in late antique and medieval Egypt

Coptic christology in practice : incarnation and divine participation in late antique and medieval Egypt / Stephen J. Davis.

Coptic Christology in Practice forges a new path in the study of ancient and medieval Christology. Employing a range of interdisciplinary methods derived from the fields of social history, discourse theory, ritual studies, and the visual arts, Stephen J. Davis demonstrates how Christian identity in...

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Main Author: Davis, Stephen J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford early Christian studies.
Subjects:
Jesus Christ > Person and offices.
Jesus Christ
Coptic Church > History.
Coptic Church
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Christology.
Christology
Egypt > Church history.
Egypt
Church history
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Incarnation and ritual practice in the fifth-century writings of Shenoute of Atripe
  • Christology in Coptic Eucharistic liturgies
  • Christology in Coptic pilgrimage and the cult of the saints
  • Christology and Coptic art : images of the incarnation on Egyptian bodies and monuments
  • Incarnation and Christian-Muslim apologetics in the tenth-century writings of Sāwīrus ibn al-Muqaffaʻ
  • From Alexandria to Cairo : the medieval golden age of Coptic-Arabic christology
  • The modern legacy of Coptic christology
  • I am amazed (excerpts) / Shenoute of Atripe
  • And it happened one day / Shenoute of Atripe
  • When the word says (excerpts) / Shenoute of Atripe
  • The lamp of understanding, chs. 4-7 / Sāwīrus ibn al-Muqaffaʻ
  • The book of the elucidation, ch. 4 / Ps.-Sāwīrus ibn al-Muqaffaʻ
  • On the incarnation / Būlus al-Būshī
  • Brief chapters on the trinity and the union, chs. 7-11 / Al-Ṣafī ibn al-ʻAssāl
  • Summary of the principles of religion, chs. 23 (excerpts), 25-26 / Al-Muʼtaman ibn al-ʻAssāl
  • A refutation of the Calvinists / Patriarch Matthew IV.

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