Ignatius and Concord: The Background and Use of the Language of Concord in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch

by John-paul Lotz

The study of Ignatius of Antioch has for several centuries been chiefly concerned with two enigmas relating to the corpus of literature associated with him: authorship and date. This book goes beyond these issues in that it evaluates the meaning and purpose of these letters on their own terms in an attempt to better understand the background and the exigencies that helped produce them. By evaluating how homonoia was used in a variety of contexts and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820486981
• ISBN13: 9780820486987
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 247 Pages