Title: The beauty of God's presence in the Fathers of the Church : the proceedings of the Eighth International Patristic Conference, Maynooth, 2012 /
Authors: Rutherford, Janet Elaine
Year: 2014
Subjects: Presence of God Congresses.; Aesthetics Religious aspects Christianity Congresses.; Spirituality Christianity Congresses.
Abstract: "This book, the proceedings of the eighth international patristic conference of St Patrick’s College Maynooth, contains fifteen essays by Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican scholars from Russia, Finland, Greece, Poland, Spain, Wales and Ireland, on every aspect of divine beauty. God is Beauty, and thus the source of all beauty. The volume considers the beauty of Christ as the image of the Father, the beauty of human beings who are made in that image, and the beauty of Christ-like lives. The essays span Christian history, from the Bible to the present day, demonstrating once again the enduring relevance of the Church Fathers in every generation."--
Contents: Introduction / Janet Elaine Rutherford -- The pearl of great beauty and the mysteries of faith / Finbarr G. Clancy SJ -- The ugly sisters? Female asceticism and the theology of creation / Juliette Day -- The beauty of martyrdom: the presence of God in the martyrs in the writings of Tertullian and Cyprian / Marcin Wysocki -- 'The light of your face was printed on us': prayer as sacrament in the Alexandrian tradition / Janet Elaine Rutherford -- Early Jewish and Patristic readers of the Song of Songs / Breandan McConvery CSsR -- The beauty of divine intellect in Plotinus / Andrew Smith -- Beauty and the presence of God in the soul: Gregory of Nyssa's commentary on Song of Songs 5:2 / Miguel Brugarolas -- St Gregory of Nyssa on the transformation of physical elements - in nature and the holy eucharistic gifts / Kirill Zinkovskiy -- The presence of God in the interpretation of the Psalms by Cyril of Alexandria / Eirini Artemi -- St John and the bosom of the Lord in Patristic and Insular tradition / Susan Cremin -- Maximus Confessor and Aisthesis Noera / Nicholas Madden OCD -- Maximus embellished? The poetry of Johannes Scottus Eriugena / Catherine Kavanagh -- The Seventh Ecumenical Council, the Council of Frankfurt, and the practice of painting / Peter Brooke -- The beauty of the light of God in St Symeon the New Theologian / Karoliina Maria Schauman -- The theology of beauty in the context of the theology of the person / Methody Zinkovskiy.