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Epistemological theories of the patristic authors seldom attract attention of the researchers. This unfortunate status quo contrasts with a crucial place of the theory of knowledge in the thought of such prominent authors as Origen and the Cappadocian fathers. This book surveys the patristic epistem...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-423672020-10-03T00:45:35Z Knowledge, Language and Intellection from Origen to Gregory Nazianzen Usacheva, Anna Religion and beliefs bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs Epistemological theories of the patristic authors seldom attract attention of the researchers. This unfortunate status quo contrasts with a crucial place of the theory of knowledge in the thought of such prominent authors as Origen and the Cappadocian fathers. This book surveys the patristic epistemological discourse in its various settings. In the context of the Church history it revolves around the Eunomian controversy, Eunomius’ language theory and Gregory Nazianzen’s cognitive theory, where the ideas of Apostle Paul were creatively combined with the Peripatetic teaching. In the framework of Biblical exegesis, it touches upon the issues of the textual criticism of the Homeric and Jewish scholarship, which had significantly shaped Origen’s paradigm of the Biblical studies. 2020-10-02T07:46:23Z 2020-10-02T07:46:23Z 2017 book ONIX_20201002_9783631731109_9 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42367 eng Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity application/pdf n/a 9783631731109.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b11833 10.3726/b11833 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 18 212 Bern open access
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description Epistemological theories of the patristic authors seldom attract attention of the researchers. This unfortunate status quo contrasts with a crucial place of the theory of knowledge in the thought of such prominent authors as Origen and the Cappadocian fathers. This book surveys the patristic epistemological discourse in its various settings. In the context of the Church history it revolves around the Eunomian controversy, Eunomius’ language theory and Gregory Nazianzen’s cognitive theory, where the ideas of Apostle Paul were creatively combined with the Peripatetic teaching. In the framework of Biblical exegesis, it touches upon the issues of the textual criticism of the Homeric and Jewish scholarship, which had significantly shaped Origen’s paradigm of the Biblical studies.
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