The Apostolic Age In Patristic Thought

THE APOSTOLIC AGE IN PATRISTIC THOUGHT

SUPPLEMENTS TO

VIGILIAE CHRISTIANAE
Formerly Philosophia Patrum
TEXTS AND STUDIES OF EARLY CHRISTIAN LIFE AND LANGUAGE
EDITORS J. DEN BOEFT — J. VAN OORT — W.L. PETERSEN D.T. RUNIA — C. SCHOLTEN — J.C.M. VAN WINDEN

VOLUME LXX

THE APOSTOLIC AGE IN PATRISTIC THOUGHT
EDITED BY

A. HILHORST

BRILL
LEIDEN • BOSTON 2004

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The apostolic age in patristic thought / edited by A. Hilhorst. p. cm. — (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, ISSN 0920-623X ; v. 70) English, French and German. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 90-04-12611-2 (alk. paper) 1. Apostolate (Christian theology)—History of doctrines—Early church, ca.30-600. 2. Theology, Doctrinal—History—Early church, ca. 30-600. 3. Fathers of the church. I. Hilhorst, A. II. Series. BV601.2.A665 2003 270.1’072—dc22

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CONTENTS Introduction ................................................................................ Abbreviations .............................................................................. Theodore Korteweg Origin and Early History of the Apostolic Office .................. Joseph Ysebaert The Eucharist as a Love-meal (agape) in Didache 9–10, and Its Development in thePauline and in the Syrian Tradition .................................................................................. Ton Hilhorst Romantic Fantasies: Early Christians Looking Back on the Apostolic Period ...................................................................... Peter Van Deun The Notion épostolikÒw: A Terminological Survey .............. Jan den Boeft Miracles Recalling theApostolic Age ...................................... Gerard Rouwhorst Liturgy on the Authority of the Apostles ................................ Riemer Roukema La tradition apostolique et le canon du Nouveau Testament ................................................................................ vii xiii

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Gerard P. Luttikhuizen Witnesses and Mediators of Christ’sGnostic Teachings ........ 104 H. S. Benjamins Die Apostolizität der kirchlichen Verkündigung bei Irenäus von Lyon ................................................................................ 115 Fred Ledegang Origen’s View of Apostolic Tradition ...................................... 130

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Johannes van Oort The Paraclete Mani as the Apostle of Jesus Christ and the Origins of aNew Church .................................................... 139 Arnold Provoost The Apostolic World of Thought in Early Christian Iconography ............................................................................ 158 Adelbert Davids The Era of the Apostles According to Eusebius’ History of the Church ....................................................................................194 G. J. M. Bartelink Monks: The Ascetic Movement as a Return to the Aetas Apostolica ................................................................................ 204 B. Dehandschutter Primum enim omnes docebant: Awareness of Discontinuity in the Early Church: The Case of Ecclesiastical Office ................ 219 Antoon A. R. Bastiaensen Urbs beata Jerusalem: Saint Augustin sur Jérusalem...