Enchantment and creed in the hymns of Ambrose of Milan /
This work offers a critical overview of the hymns of Ambrose of Milan (c.339-397) in the context of fourth-century doctrinal hymns and in relation to his own catechetical preaching. Brian P. Dunkle, SJ, argues that Ambrose employed sophisticated poetic techniques in his hymns in order to foster a pr...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
|
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford early Christian studies.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Enchantment and Creed in the Hymns of Ambrose of Milan; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgment; Content; List of Abbreviations; Ambrose; Other Ancient Authors; Journals and Serials; Essay Collections; Introduction; AMBROSE'S HYMNS IN RECENT SCHOLARSHIP; OVERVIEW; TEXTS; 1: Hymnody, Heresy, and Doctrinal Identity; THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIAN HYMNODY; EARLY CHRISTIAN OBJECTIONS TO HYMNODY; THE FOURTH-CENTURY "PSALMODIC MOVEMENT""; HERESY AND HYMNODY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY; "CAUTIOUS" ORTHODOX RESPONSES; EPHREM'S MADRĀŠÊ; FOURTH-CENTURY LATIN HYMNISTS: HILARY
- AUGUSTINE'S PSALMUS CONTRA PARTEM DONATIFOURTH-CENTURY LITERARY HYMNODY; ANONYMOUS POPULAR HYMNS; AMBROSE ON THE ROLE OF SONG; SOURCES ON THE ORIGIN OF AMBROSE'S HYMNS; REVIEW: AMBROSE'S HYMNS IN CONTEXT; 2: Ambrose's Preaching, Enchantment, and Nature and Grace; AMBROSE THE BISHOP AND PREACHER; Ambrose Preaching against the Homoians; KEY WORDS FOR NICAEA IN AMBROSE'S TEACHING; AMBROSE'S CATECHETICAL PREACHING; AMBROSE ON THE SPIRITUAL SENSES; RESENSITIZATION IN AMBROSE'S MYSTAGOGICAL PREACHING; Excursus: Mystagogy in the Late Fourth Century; Cyril's Catecheses; AMBROSE'S MYSTAGOGIES
- Actualization through Temporal MarkersOvercoming Appearances: Typology of the Rite; Spiritual Reading of Scripture; Doctrinal Insertions; Mystagogy and Ecclesial Identity; The Explanatio Symboli; CONCLUSION: HOMILIES IN THE PASCHAL SEASON AND ENCHANTMENT; 3: Ambrose's Daytime Hymns and the Mystagogy of Nature; THE HYMNS AND THEIR AUDIENCE; HYMNS FOR THE HOURS; "AETERNE RERUM CONDITOR"; Temporality and Indexicals in Song; Sensitization through Multivalence; Pro-Nicene Contours; The Cockcrow in Song and Preaching; "SPLENDOR PATERNAE GLORIAE"; Mystical Reading of Nature and Scripture
- Nicene Emphases"IAM SURGIT HORA TERTIA"; Scripture, Doctrine, and Song; "DEUS CREATOR OMNIUM"; Ambrose's View of the Day; MYSTAGOGY IN THE HYMNS FOR THE HOURS; 4: Christ in Scripture and the Hymns for Dominical Feasts; GROUPING THE HYMNS; AMBROSE AND HYMNS FOR THE LITURGICAL YEAR; "INTENDE QUI REGIS ISRAEL"; Mystical Readings of Scripture; Nicene Catechesis; Conclusion: "Intende Qui Regis" in the Polemical Context; "ILLUMINANS ALTISSIMUS"; Mystagogical Features; Mystical Reading of Scripture; Scripture and the Spiritual Senses; Conclusion: "Illuminans Altissimus" and Sacramentality
- "HIC EST DIES VERUS DEI"Mystagogical Language; Scriptural Readings; CONCLUSION: FESTAL HYMNS ANDCHRISTOLOGICAL MYSTAGOGY; 5: Ecclesial Identity in theHymns for Martyrs; AMBROSE AND THE CULT OF THE SAINTS; THE HYMNS FOR ROMAN MARTYRS; Ambrose and Rome; Rome and the Crisis of 386; "AGNES BEATAE VIRGINIS"; Deceptive Appearances; Agnes the Roman; Communal Formation in a Time of Conflict; "APOSTOLORUM PASSIO"; Mystagogical Features; Pro-Nicene Ends of Peter, Paul, and Rome; "APOSTOLORUM SUPPAREM"; THE ROMAN MARTYRS IN REVIEW; MARTYRS OF MILAN; "VICTOR NABOR FELIX PII"; Christ and the Martyrs