TY - BOOK AU - Ayres, Lewis AU - Jones, Gareth TI - Christian origins: theology, rhetoric and community SN - 0415107512 AV - BR100 .C52 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Philosophy and religion KW - History of doctrines KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Theology KW - History KW - Religious thought KW - To 600 KW - Christianity KW - Philosophy KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index ; Introduction : a project in the study of Christian origins / Lewis Ayres -- part 1. Reading Origen: Christ or Plato? : Origen on revelation and anthropology / Mark Edwards. Allegorical reading and the embodiment of the soul in Origen / David Dawson -- part 2. Reading the fourth century: The fourth century as trinitarian canon / Michel Rene Barnes. The dog that did not bark : doctrine and patriarchal authority in the conflict between Theophilus of Alexandria and John Chrysostom of Constantinople / Susanna Elm. Gregory of Nyssa : the force of identity / John Milbank. Constantine, Nicaea and the 'fall' of the Church / Daniel H. Williams -- part 3. Christian origins and the Western tradition: Denys and Aquinas : antimodern cold and postmodern hot / Wayne Hankey. Ascending numbers : Augustine's De musica and the Western tradition / Catherine Pickstock ER -