The Hope of the Early Church: A Handbook of Patristic Eschatology.Brian E. Daley of the Society of Jesus Society of Jesus Roman Catholic religious order distinguished in foreign missions. [Christian Hist.: NCE, 1412] See : Missionary surveys the eschatology eschatology Theological doctrine of the “last things,” or the end of the world. Mythological eschatologies depict an eternal struggle between order and chaos and celebrate the eternity of order and the repeatability of the origin of the world. of the post-apostolic church in The Hope of the Early Church: A Handbook of Patristic pa·tris·tic also pa·tris·ti·cal adj. Of or relating to the fathers of the early Christian church or their writings. pa·tris Eschatology (Hendrickson, $24.95). He carries the story down to the sixth century, analyzing a long list of patristic writers: the Apostolic Fathers early Christian writers, who were born in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added. See also: Apostolic , second-century apologists, Origen and his critics, Syriac, Greek and Latin fathers from the fourth to the sixth centuries, including the Cappadocians, Ambrose, Augustine, Greek and Latin Hymns, concluding with Pope Gregory the Great. Daley has important footnotes and extensive bibliographies to aid further inquiry, as a survey should, while an "Epilogue" describes common themes that run through the writers as well as areas of disagreement. It is an interesting story, told well. This deserves a wide reading--probably more than it will get, given American lack of historical curiosity. And that's a pity, since the fathers and Daley have much to teach us. |
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