The Emergence of the Church’s Culture of Biblical Interpretation and Theology: Rhetoric, Philology, and Gnosticism in the 2nd Century
University of Chicago 5801 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, ILLewis 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 […]