Preaching after Easter: Mid-Pentecost, Ascension, and Pentecost in Late Antiquity: (136 Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements)

The studies collected in Preaching after Easter examine the festal history and homiletics of Mid-Pentecost, Ascension, and Pentecost in the late antique Mediterranean world. Articles on individual sermons or the work of individual preachers such as John Chrysostom, Augustine of Hippo, Peter Chrysologus, Leo the Great, and Severus of Antioch exhibit the richness of late antique festal preaching. Questions of authenticity, heresiology, and theological, exegetical, or liturgical history are addressed with methodological rigor. Complementary contributions that deal with ancient Jewish-Christian dialogue, art-historical reception, and contemporary liturgical theology illustrate the wide ramifications of ancient Christian festal practice. Students and scholars of these feasts and the interpretive traditions devoted to them will find this volume to be an indispensable source of information and analysis.

Table of Contents:
Contents Introduction Preaching after Easter: Fresh Perspectives on an Understudied Topic Richard W. Bishop and Johan Leemans Part 1: Towards a Festal History 1 Pentekoste, Pfingsten und Himmelfahrt Grunddaten und Fragen zur Frühgeschichte Harald Buchinger Part 2: Mid-Pentecost 2 Das Mesopentekoste-Fest Bezeugung, Charakter, Entstehung Martin Kaiser 3 Les sermons de Pierre Chrysologue sur la Mi-Pentecôte (LXXXV et LXXXVbis) Un état de la question Jean-Marie Auwers 4 Die (pseudo-amphilochianische) Mesopentekoste-Predigt CPG 3236 Martin Kaiser Part 3: Ascension 5 La fête de l’Ascension à Antioche d’après l’homélie de Jean Chrysostome In Ascensionem Christi Nathalie Rambault 6 Augustine’s Homiletic Appreciation of the Feast of the Ascension Preaching on Christological Orthodoxy, Divine Soteriology and the Moral Life Forty Days after Easter (serm. 261–265F) Anthony Dupont 7 The Authorship, Thematics, and Reception of an Ascension Sermon Attributed to Proclus of Constantinople (CPG 5820) Richard W. Bishop Part 4: Pentecost 8 Pentecost and Shavuot – Holy Spirit and Torah The Quest for Traces of a Dialogue between Jews and Christians about a Shared but Separating Festival Clemens Leonhard 9 Pentecost Homilies and Late-Antique Christian Exegesis Martin Meiser 10 The Relative Routine of Preaching Pneumatomachians in Greek Patristic Sermons on Pentecost Johan Leemans 11 Pentecost According to Severian of Gabala Sever J. Voicu 12 Unitas Omnibus Linguis Loquitur 304 An Unidentified Augustinian Sermon on Pentecost Clemens Weidmann 13 The Pentecost Feast in Sixth-Century Antioch The Evidence of Patriarch Severus (512–518) Pauline Allen 14 Ecrire du Chrysostome L’exemple de l’homélie 2 Sur la Pentecôte (CPG 4343.2) Nathalie Rambault 15 Pentecost and the Senses A Hermeneutical Contribution to the Visual Medium and the Sensorium in Early Medieval Manuscript Tradition Barbara Baert Part 5: Liturgical Theology: The Example of Leo the Great 16 The Resurrection of the Body in Leo the Great’s Ascension and Pentecost Homilies Bronwen Neil 17 Paschal Joy Continued Exploring Leo the Great’s Theology of Christ’s Ascension into Heaven Joris Geldhof Part 6: Notes on Three Recently Edited Greek Ascension Sermons 18 Evidence of Authenticity Severian of Gabala, In ascensionem Domini (CPG 5028) Sever J. Voicu 19 CPG 4908 In S. Ascensionem Domini Nostri et Salvatoris Iesu Christi Pauline Allen 20 L’homélie In Ascensionem CPG 4988 et son attribution à Jean Chrysostome Nathalie Rambault Index of Modern Authors Scriptural Index Index of Sources

About the Author :
Richard W. Bishop (Ph.D. 2009) is a post-doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium). His current project is an annotated translation of the extant Greek festal sermons on Ascension and Pentecost from Late Antiquity. Prof. Dr. Johan Leemans (Ph.D. 2001) is full professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium). He has published extensively on late antique sermons and on the theology of the Cappadocian Fathers. Dr. Hajnalka Tamas (Ph.D. 2014) is a post-doctoral fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and research associate at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium). Her research interests include late antique hagiography and asceticism.