Discusses the history and diversity of early interpretation and the influence of Jewish traditions

By &"the fear of freedom&" Greer means the unconscious flight from the heavy burden of individual choice an open society lays upon its members.

One solution is to appeal to Gregory's conviction that after this world all Christians, indeed all humans, will be united in diversity, and that this means that all are now on the one path to their destiny, however much their progress may ...

Is it historical or theological? How do we address contradictions? Greer shows the multi-layered Anglican tradition of what scripture is and how to interpret it.

This quality makes the work interesting and suggestive. The book is of importance to scholars and theologians and to all concerned with the early church.

Instrumental in the conversion of many, including Augustine, The Life of Antony provided the model for subsequent saints' life and constituted, in the words of patristics scholar Johannes Quasten, 'the most important document of early ...

A world-class historian of the Anglican/Episcopal churches and early Christian history offers an accessible guide as seen through the eyes of the New Testament, Augustine, poet John Donne, and others.

The essays in this book honor and extend the work of Rowan A. Greer, Walter H. Gray Professor Emeritus of Anglican Studies at Yale University Divinity School, by exploring the connections between textual interpretation and the formation of ...

"The four desert Fathers who give their names to this volume - Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria - were well known some 1600 years ago in Alexandria and the monastic communities of Lower Egypt.