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Author Hicks, Jonathan (Jonathan Douglas), 1984- author.

Title Trinity, economy, and Scripture : recovering Didymus the Blind / Jonathan Hicks
Published Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2015

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Series Journal of theological interpretation supplements ; 12
Journal of theological interpretation supplements ; 12.
Contents Series Page; Title; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1. DIDYMUS' AUTHORSHIP OF DE TRINITATE: STATUS QUAESTIONIS; 2. GOD THE TRINITY: IDENTITY AND ACTIVITY; 3. THE ECONOMY AND SCRIPTURE; 4. THE MORAL LIFE AND ITS END; 5. THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE AND ESCHATOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; 6. "CULLING THE FLOWERS"; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; AUTHOR AND SUBJECT INDEX; SCRIPTURE INDEX
Summary "The 4th-century teacher, Didymus the Blind, enjoyed a fruitful life as head of an episcopally-sanctioned school in Alexandria. Author of numerous dogmatic treatises and exegetical works, Didymus was considered a stalwart defender of the Nicene faith in his heyday. He duly attracted the likes of Jerome and Rufinus to his school. Contemporary scholarship has focused most of its attention on understanding him as an exegete, especially focusing on his exegetical vocabulary and the driving assumptions behind his particular method of reading Scripture. The theological literature has been somewhat neglected. In this study, Jonathan Hicks makes the claim that Didymus's exegesis can only be understood in all its fullness in light of his theological commitments. His acute differences with Theodore of Mopsuestia on the proper reading of the prophet Zechariah cannot be understood as merely methodological. Animating Didymus's reading of the prophet is a lively understanding of Trinitarian missions. Recognizing the comings of the Son and the Spirit to Israel is essential in locating the prophet's message properly within the one divine economy of revelation and salvation that culminates in the Incarnation of Christ. Hicks argues that Didymus is instructive here for today's Church both on the level of praxis (we should adopt some of his reading practices) and on the level of theoria (his Trinitarian account of Scripture's origin and ends is fundamental to a fully Christian understanding of what Scripture is)." --From publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. De Trinitate.
Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. De Spiritu Sanctu
Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. On Zechariah.
Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398.
SUBJECT Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398
Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. On Zechariah
Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. De Spiritu Sanctu
Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. De Trinitate
Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398 fast
Bible. Zechariah -- Commentaries
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013622
On Zechariah (Didymus, the Blind) fast
Bible fast
Bible. Zechariah fast
De Trinitate (Didymus, the Blind) fast
Subject Trinity -- Early works to 1800
Holy Spirit -- Early works to 1800
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Holy Spirit
Trinity
Genre/Form Commentaries
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015030518
ISBN 9781575064123
157506412X
1575064111
9781575064116