The Fathers on the Bible

Nicu Dumitraşcu is Professor of Patristics, Mission and Ecumenism in the Faculty of Orthodox Theology "Episcop Dr. Vasile Coman" at the University of Oradea, Romania. His previous book with Routledge is Basil the Great: Faith, Mission and Diplomacy in the Shaping of Christian Doctrine (2018).

Preface

Nicu Dumitrașcu

1 St. Athanasius of Alexandria on the Interpretation of the Psalms

John Anthony McGuckin

2 Psalmody in the Hesychastic Tradition

Krzysztof Lesniewski

3 How the Latin Christians Started to Read the Book of Isaiah

Anni Maria Laato

4 The Fathers on the Third Temptation of Jesus in Matthew 4:8-11

Hector Scerry

5 Defending the Scriptural Legitimacy of Ousia Language: St. Athanasius and Basil of Ancyra

Gheorghe Ovidiu Sferlea

6 Questioning St. Gregory of Nyssa's Anthropology and Theory of Sexuality in On the Making of Man

Florin Toader Tomoioagă

7 Philo and Ambrose on Genesis 25 as Slavery in Passions

Victor Yudin

8 Wealth and Power: A Personal Meditation on Luke 18:18-25 {With Short Pastoral and Patristic Comments}

Nicu Dumitrașcu

9 "Love Whoever Hates You and Persecutes You" The Reception of the Mount Sermon in a Fourth-Century Anonymous Work

Pablo Argárate

10 Theological Principles in the Formation of the Biblical Canon According to Athanasius' Thirty Ninth Paschal Letter

Gunnar af Hällström

11 Augustine’s Approach to Scriptural Interpretation

Carl Séan O’Brien

12 The Doctrine of Love in Saint’s Gregory the Great Commentaries on the Song of Songs

Adina Voichița Rosu

13 The Configuration of Ethos in Gregory of Nazianzus's First Theological Oration

Anca Tomoioagă

14 The Contribution of St. John Chrysostom to the Understanding of Pauline Hamartiology

Ștefan Florea

15 Between Sacrament and Vocation: Augustine’s Biblical Teaching on Marriage and Its Influence on Luther’s Theology

Piotr Kopiec