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Eusebius on Constantine and Nicaea: Intentions and Omissions
No full textThis article is dedicated to illuminating problems associated with one of the main sources of the history of the early church up to the time of the First Ecumenical Council — The Church History and the Life of the Emperor Constantine — both written by Eusebius of Pamphilus. The author points to the fact that these works have little to say about the theological disputes which were part and parcel of the First Ecumenical Council. Eusebius, instead, fills his account with details of the disputes concerning the date of the celebration of Easter. The arian controversies which dominate the pages of the works of other early Church Fathers are passed over in silence by Eusebius. Researchers have concluded that this was precisely the intention of Eusebius since he himself belonged to the party which sympathized with the heretic Arius. The author of this article attempts to refute this argument and offers another explanation. The author points out that Eusebius always devotes special attention to events and functions organized by Constantine. These events and activities are described by Eusebius in a way which deliberately excludes theological controversies. The author concludes that Eusebius, like Constantine himself, 28 М. Рицци. Евсевий о Константине и Никейском соборе: намерения и умолчания deliberately avoids mentioning the theological disputes since both considered them of relatively little importance and that their solution should be reserved to the narrow circle of intellectuals among the early churchmen. Eusebius thought that the conservation of ecclesiastical peace and unity was of primary importance for all his fellow bishop
Gli angeli tra protologia ed escatologia: la critica di Agostino a Origene nel De civitate Dei
Full text linkThe paper examines Augustine’s polemics in Book 11 of the City of God against Origen about protology and especially the creation of the angels. Augustine locates the latter at the very beginning of the hexaemeron, in this way refusing Origen’s idea of the fall of rational souls, originally created identical, into angels, human beings and demons. In Augustine’ views, intelligible and sensible creation was made contemporarily, so that Origen’s two-phase protology makes no sense. Also in Augustine’s apparently compact scheme, however, there is an interruption related to the consciousness of the angels before and after the fall of some of them. This fact affects also Augustine’s anthropology and reverses Origen’s angelology, who considers angels in function of human beings and their salvation, while for Augustine their fate depends upon the angels’ previous events. Key words: Augustine, City of God,O artigo examina a polémica agostiniana contra Orígenes, no livro XI da Cidade de Deus, acerca da protologia e especialmente a criação dos anjos. Agostinho coloca a questão logo no início do hexaemeron, refutando, deste modo, a ideia origeniana da queda das almas racionais, originalmente criadas iguais, nos anjos, seres humanos e demónios. Na perspetiva de Agostinho, a criação inteligível e sensível sucederam contemporaneamente, por isso, as duas fases da protologia origeniana não faz sentido. Também no esquema agostiniano existe, contudo, uma interrupção relativamente à consciência dos anjos, antes e depois da queda de alguns deles. Este facto reverte à angelologia de Orígenes, que considera os anjos em função dos seres humanos e sua salvação, enquanto para Agostinho o seu destino depende dos acontecimentos anteriores aos anjos
Cristo canto nuovo in Clemente di Alessandria
Full text linkItIl contributo prende in esame l'uso del sintagma "parola alata" di derivazione omerica in Clemente Alessandrino, in particolare nel proemio del Protrettico e nell'Inno al Logos in appendice al Pedagogo. Nel contesto cristiano opera l'identificazione del concetto di logos, sinonimico di "parola", con Cristo, Logos di Dio incarnato. Cristo viene così contrapposto ai cantori della tradizione classica e grazie alla sua azione redentrice gli uomini possono diventare tutt'uno con la parola che cantano e con la Parola che li salva, innalzandoli come un'ala al cielo.EnThe paper examines the use of the Homeric syntagm "winged word" in Clement of Alexandria, particularly in the proemium of his Protrepticus and in his Hymn to the Logos handed down as an appendix to his Pedagogue. in Clement's Christian context, the logos, synonymous with "word", is identified with Christ, the incarnate Logos of God. Christ is thus contrasted with the singers of the classical tradition, and thanks to his redemptive action human beings can become one with the word they sing and with the Word that saves them, raising them like a wing to heaven
Il corpo redento. Un percorso intellettuale tra tradizioni teologiche e antropologia nel cristianesimo tardoantico,
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