Jacob of Sarug's Homily on the Creation of Adam and the Resurrection of the Dead

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3599-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 32, 74 Seiten

Reihe: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity

Mêmrâ 72 is a meditation on the fall of Adam and its consequences, subjecting all creation to corruption. God’s mercy, however, will restore everything to a spiritual, incorruptible state that will exist eternally in the unending light of Christ.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Abbreviations (page 7)
- Introduction (page 9)
- Outline (page 9)
- Notes on the Text (page 17)
- Title (page 17)
- Manuscripts (page 17)
- Summary (page 19)
- Text and Translation (page 21)
- I. Adams was the pinnacle and culmination of all beauty of creation (page 22)
- II. The demise of Adam and the dissolution of his composition (page 28)
- III. The purpose of every detail of Adam's constitution (page 34)
- IV. Adam and Eve adorned in garments of light; extinguished by the Evil One (page 38)
- V. The Son came down to restore Adam's lost image (page 42)
- VI. The second coming, the new creation and the end of the old (page 46)
- VII. The new creation will be one of unending light (page 50)
- VIII. The end of the world is death and dissolution (page 54)
- IX. An exhortation to forsake temporal things and look to the eternal (page 58)
- X. Adam will rise up again at the general resurrection (page 60)
- XI. The spiritual nature of the new creation (page 62)
- XII. The same Adam will rise up and regain his garment of light (page 64)
- Bibliography of Works Cited (page 69)
- Index (page 73)