Including papers presented at the conference "The image of the perfect Christian in patristic thought", at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine in 2009. - Brent, Allen; Khomych, Taras; Kindiy, Oleh; Vakula, Oleksandra; Vinzent, Markus; Ukrainian Catholic University Lviv; University of Notre Dame; International Conference "The Image of the perfect Christian in patristic thought" Lviv 11.09.2009 - 12.09.2009 (Leuven Peeters, 2011)
Perfection in the Didache: ethical objective or eschatological hope? / Taras Khomych -- Polycarp as a Christian gymnosophist / Jan M. Kozlowski -- The Christological notion of diakonos in Clement of Alexandria / Oleh Kindiy -- Spiritual progress and a disciple of Christ as a model of the perfect Christian in Origen / Oleksandra Vakula -- The model of the perfect Christian in the writings of Gregory of Nazianzus / Dariusz Zagórski -- Some paths to perfection in the Syriac fathers / Sebastian P. Brock -- On the way to perfection: 'lust' as a factor in early Christian anthropology, with an outlook on the Syrian fathers / Boudewijn Dehandschutter -- Tolera infirmitatem, si desideras perfectionem: the notion of tolerantia in relation to Christian perfection in Augustine's Sermones ad populum / Marcela Andoková -- Ieiunium and eleemosyna/charitas as important elements on the Christian's way to perfection according to the Sermons of St. Leo the Great / Krzysztof Tyburowski -- The image of the perfect Christian in the writings of Pseudo-Macarius / Mariya Horyacha -- Free will as a partner of nature: Maximus the Confessor on the Our Father / George C. Berthold -- Salvific asymmetry: anhypostasy and icon veneration in Theodore the Studite's Antirrhetici / Thomas Cattoi -- The idea of perfection in the spiritual works of Gregory Barhebraeus (1226-1286) / Herman Teule -- Some notes on the notions of synergy and interpenetration in Theophanes of Nicaea / Dimitry Makarov.
Lviv, 2009
Keywords: Christian literature, Early -- Congresses; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses; Fathers of the church -- Congresses; Perfection -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Congresses; Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses; 276 <063> -- Patrologie. Patristiek--Congressen; Conferences - Meetings