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April 15th @ 4:30 pm

The Emergence of the Church’s Culture of Biblical Interpretation and Theology: Rhetoric, Philology, and Gnosticism in the 2nd Century

Apr 15

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Lewis Ayres (University of Durham)

To understand the exegetical culture that nurtured and formed classical Patristic exegesis, we must attend to some understudied features of the generation of Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria. This generation, in response to the exegetical cultures of ‘Gnostic’ thinkers, developed the exegetical practice that became fundamental for all later Christian doctrinal disputes and for Christian speculative thought. Bringing this historical moment into clearer focus helps us think about the character of Christian thought today.

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