Henry Chadwick (1) (1920–2008)
Autor(a) de The Early Church
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About the Author
Henry Chadwick is Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
Obras por Henry Chadwick
Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy (Clarendon Paperbacks) (1981) 63 exemplares
East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church: From Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence (2003) 59 exemplares
Common Praise 4 exemplares
Tohe epistle to the philippians 1 exemplar
Origen : Contra celsum 1 exemplar
REVIEW AND EXPOSITOR, Vol. LV, No. 2 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Lessing's Theological Writings: Selections in Translation (Library of Modern Religious Thought) (1957) — Editor, algumas edições — 82 exemplares
The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 13: The Late Empire, A.D. 337–425 (1998) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
Interpreting Late Antiquity: Essays on the Postclassical World (2001) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Scripture, Tradition and Reason: A Study in the Criteria of Christian Doctrine (1988) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
Logos: Festschrift für Luise Abramowski (Logos: Commemoration for Luise Abramowski) (1993) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
From Augustine to Eriugena : essays on Neoplatonism and Christianity in honor of John O'Meara (1991) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1920-06-23
- Data de falecimento
- 2008-06-17
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- England
- País (no mapa)
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Bromley, Kent, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Educação
- Magdalene College, Cambridge (Mus.B. | 1941)
Christ Church College, Oxford (DD) - Ocupações
- Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
theologian
professor
priest - Relações
- Chadwick, Owen (brother)
Chadwick, John (brother) - Organizações
- Church of England (Deacon|1943|Priest|1944)
Cambridge University
Oxford University - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Order of the British Empire (Knight Commander, 1989)
Fellow, British Academy (1960)
American Philosophical Society (1982)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1970)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 33
- Also by
- 15
- Membros
- 4,066
- Popularidade
- #6,192
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 29
- ISBN
- 97
- Línguas
- 9
- Marcado como favorito
- 2
Yet is was a project not without controversy among fellow-believers at the time, many of whom felt no need for this engagement. What Chadwick writes of Clement’s persistence in the face of opposition is true to some degree of Justin and Origen as well: “To deny that philosophy is God’s gift is to deny providence and the image of God in creation” (p. 43).
While many of their contemporary believers would have preferred to ignore questions raised by philosophy, those Christians of a more intellectual cast of mind were drawn to Gnostic systems, described by Chadwick as: “that somber and repellent theosophy in which Christian redemption is fused with a pessimistic interpretation of Plato, a dualism drawn from a hellenised version of Zoroastrianism, important elements from heterodox Judaism, the whole being mingled with astrology and with magic as the principal technique for overcoming the powers of fate” (p. 7). So here was a challenge of another sort, and each of the three writers discussed navigated between these two extremes.
Of these three, the one whose name might be most familiar to today’s readers might be that of Origen, who famously stirred up controversy by expressing the opinion during a debate with a Gnostic opponent that he didn’t even feel the devil was beyond redemption. Chadwick devotes the fourth lecture to a balanced, sensitive discussion of whether Origen can be defended from the 6th century dismissal of him as a heretic. He shows that the charge of heresy is in part because of theological definitions formulated after Origen’s death. Another point is that Origen lived in a tradition shaped by Plato and Philo; some of what was subsequently viewed as suspect in his thinking had simply been taken over from them. In other cases, some of the charges are based on a position Origen reports, but never identifies as his own; indeed, in some cases even argues against. Nevertheless, Chadwick does not simply exonerate Origen on these grounds. Instead, he ends with the observation that, in “assessing whether or not he is orthodox,” we find “we are continually driven back to the prior question: what is the essence of orthodoxy?” (p. 123).
While some of the controversies discussed in these pages belong to a long-bygone era, others remain surprising contemporary, such as the discussion of universalism. Some are a little of both, for example, the question of the difference between man and other animals: is it the difference between rational and non-rational, or are there degrees of rationality? The terms of the debate then and the examples used seem nonsense to us now, but the question abides.
It was also interesting to see how many of the criticisms of Christian faith that show up repeatedly on my Facebook feed go back to that far-distant time. We know this because Origen writes of his controversy with the most vocal critic, Celsus, and does so in such a way that inspires confidence that Origen has listened carefully and taken the views of his opponent seriously, yet also offered reasoned answers that would serve equally-well today.
When I rate a book by assigning stars, I normally reserve five stars for books that are not only great, but could be read with profit by anyone, no matter what their personal interests. Books for a more limited audience receive four as the highest from me. I went back and forth on my rating of this one. In the end, because of the one-sided, simple-minded memes lobbed back and forth in Facebook and other forums both by those who attack Christianity as well as those who defend it, I’ve decided to recommend this unreservedly.… (mais)