Questioning the world
Subtitle: Greek Patristic and Byzantine question-and-answer literature
By: edited by Bram Demulder, Peter Van Deun
Series: Lectio : studies in the transmission of texts & ideas -- 11; Lectio (Brepols (Firm)) -- 11.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9782503590752
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Cosmology; Miscellanea; Early works to 1800; Early Christian literature
Description: This volume discusses cosmological issues in Greek Patristic and Byzantine question-and-answer literature. By adopting this focus, it yields novel insights into both the (theological / philosophical) content and the (literary) form of the texts under scrutiny. How did Greek Patristic and Byzantine authors understand the cosmos of which they were a part and the world in which they lived? And what literary forms did they use to express their questions and answers on these issues? This collection of studies shows that, in order to bring out the important intellectual contribution of the authors under discussion, both ?cosmology? and ?question-and-answer literature? should be defined more broadly than expected. Several papers deal with the crucial corpora by Pseudo-Justin and Maximus the Confessor. Other authors under discussion include Philoponus, Pseudo-Caesarius, Michael Psellus, Severian of Gabala, and Nilus Doxopatrius. Attention also goes to the critical edition of question and answer literature, as well as to the Greek Patristic and Byzantine reception of cosmological questions and answers from Antiquity (i.c. Aristotle, Philo of Alexandria, Plutarch, and Iamblichus).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contributions in English or French, with passages in Greek; abstracts in English.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: pt. 1; title: PSEUDO-JUSTIN --; title: Cosmology and Its `Problems' in Ps.-Justin's Quaestiones et responsiones ad orthodoxos  -- Yannis Papadogiannakis; title: The Ps.-Justinian Corpus of Erotapokriseis and Apologetical Treatises. In Search of an Author and a Historical Setting  -- Benjamin Gleede; title: Is the Prime Mover the Source of All Movement? Pseudo-Justin on Aristotle's Unmoved Mover  -- Marcelo D. Boeri; title: Une polemique contre Philon d'Alexandrie dans la Question 69 ad orthodoxos attribute a Justin?  -- Sebastien Morlet -- pt. 2; title: MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR --; title: Re-Interpreting Tradition: Maximus the Confessor on Creation in Ambigua ad Ioannem  -- Vladimir Cvetkovic; title: St Maximus the Confessor on the Mystery of Christ  -- Torstein Theodor Tollefsen; title: Jamblique etMaxime le Confesseur, cosmologie et theurgie  -- Christian Boudignon; title: What Jheodosius of Gangra wanted to Know font Maximus the Confessor  -- Bram Roosen -- pt. 3; title: COSMOLOGIES IN SIXTH-CENTURY BYZANTIUM --; title: Les conditions de I'avenement de la lumiere dans le De opificio mundi de Jean Philopon. Dijpcultes et solutions  -- Pascal Mueller-Jourdan; title: Pre-Existence and the Creation of the World in Pseudo-Caesarius  -- Istvan Perczel -- pt. 4; title: QUESTIONING GENRE IN THE MIDDLE-BYZANTINE PERIOD --; title: Pagan Garlands and Christian Roses. Plutarch's Quaestiones convivales in Michael Psellus' De omnifaria doctrina  -- Michiel Meeusen; title: Cosmological Questions Answered with Severian of Gabala in Ms Athonensis, Lavras B 43 Reinhart Ceulemans (Eustratiadis 163)  -- Reinhart Ceulemas; title: Le De oeconomia Dei de Nil Doxapatres. Quelques observations sur le genre litteraire de I'ceuvre et sur sa transmission manuscrite -- Peter Van Deun.