In the Shadow of the Incarnation : Essays on Jesus Christ in the Early Church in Honor of Brian E. Daley, S. J.

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Apocalypse, Christ, and the Martyrs of Gaul -- Athanasius's Christology Today The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ in On the Incarnation -- Expectatio Beatitudinis: The Eschatological Frame of Hilary of Poitiers' Tractatus super Psalmos -- Suffering without Pain The Scandal of Hilary of Poitiers' Christology -- Gregory of Nazianzus on the Unity of Christ -- Two Early Nicenes Eustathius of Antioch and Marcellus of Ancyra -- Loving Christ according to Origen and Augustine -- Augustine's Christology Its Spirituality and Rhetoric -- Christology as Contemplative Practice Understanding the Union of Natures in Augustine's Letter 137 -- What Was "Wrong" with Augustine? The Sixth-Century Reception (or Lack Thereof ) of Augustine's Christology -- The Persistence of Decay Bodily Disintegration and Cyrillian Christology -- Mystery or Conundrum? The Apprehension of Christ in the Chalcedonian Definition -- From Doctrine of Christ to Icon of Christ St. Maximus the Confessor on the Transfiguration of Christ -- The Works of Brian E. Daley, S. J. -- Books, Translations, and Monographs -- Articles (Excluding Reviews) -- Contributors -- General Index -- Scripture Index.

The essays in this volume offer readers a fresh orientation, and groundbreaking analyses, of the figure of Jesus in late antiquity.

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