In Dominico Eloquio/in Lordly Eloquence: Essays on Patristic Exegesis in Honor of Robert Louis Wilken by David G. Hunter and Robin Darling Young - 2002

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Eerdmans Pub Co, January 2002. Hardcover. As New/As New. We offer two reasons you'll want this book: the vision represented by its honoree, Robert Louis Wilken, and the bright excellence of the essays themselves. Not only is Robert Wilken's contribution to the study of early Christianity pioneer in its social and intellectual approach (prime examples being <i>The Christians as the Romans Saw Them</i> and <i>John Chrysostom and the Jews</i>), but the whole of his work is infused with the ''eschatological vocation'' of the Church -- that is, its enduring presence as Christ already come to the world. The kingdom now. He mourns the religious academic's tendency to detach himself from his subject in the name of ''pure'' scholarship, as if religion has no place in the real progression of culture. As for the essays, you'll find few volumes with this sort of range. The collection divides nicely between ''Exegetical… Read More

Eerdmans Pub Co. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!