IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 809: Exegesis and Polemics in Late Antiquity: The Letters (and Writings) of Jerome and Augustine
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Joseph Grabau, Faculty of Theology & Religious Studies, KU Leuven |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Przemysław Nehring, Katedra Filologii Klasycznej, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń |
| Paper 809-a | Purging the Prophet's Lips: Jerome's Shifting Exegesis of Isaiah 6 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
| Paper 809-b | The Use of Biblical Exempla in Augustine's Epistolary Polemic with the Donatists (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric, Theology |
| Paper 809-c | Johannine Citation in the Anti-Donatist and Anti-Pelagian Letters of Augustine (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric, Theology |
| Abstract | This session aims to present stylistic, theological reflections on primarily epistolary religious polemic. Our common interest lies in the use of biblical citations (or allusions) by the Latin Church fathers Jerome and Augustine, and their polemical use of biblical evidence in letters and other writings. How was the Bible, in addition to earlier patristic and even classical sources, called upon in the context of anti-Origenist, anti-Donatist, and anti-Pelagian controversies, for example? Presenters will address: (1) Origen's interpretation of the seraphic vision of Isaiah as it appears in Jerome's letters and other biblical commentaries; (2) the polemical reception of biblical exempla in Augustine's anti-Donatist letters; and (3) mutually supporting use of John and Paul in the same epistolary corpus. |