Frances M Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 3982263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances M Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances M |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ashley Cocksworth and David F. Ford, Glorification and the Life of Faith
Rethinking the Alexandrian–Antiochene Hermeneutical Antithesis
Twentieth-century scholarship tended to project onto the Antiochenes its own emphasis on history and resistance to allegory. Reassessment in terms of the intellectual context of Late Antiquity is undertaken. The Antiochenes did reject allegory as practised by Origen and his successors, but they did not reject the search for deeper meanings; they were concerned with historia, but that did not mean concern with historicity. Exegetical techniques we…
Frances Mackenney-Jeffs, Reconceptualising Disability for the Contemporary Church
Divine Discourse
This chapter focuses on the relationship of the Word of God inscribed in Scripture and Word of God incarnate in Christ, both being expressions of God’s revelation and constitutive of the divine oikonomia , and both involving God’s self-accommodation to creaturely limitations. The development of the Christological meaning of Scripture as a whole is traced from second-century debates about the continuing validity of the Jewish Scriptures to the hol…
Ways of reading scripture
This volume consists of previously published articles by Frances Young, a scholar of early Christianity, well-known for her work Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture, together with a few newly composed additions. The studies collected here are concerned with the New Testament, but their approach is often not in the modern historico-critical mode. Rather, they bring new insight through being informed by the author's patristic s…
Judith M. Lieu, Marcion and the Making of a Heretic
Apathōs Epathen
Modern Christian writers often appeal to the suffering of Christ as part of a theodicy, but early Christian writers such as Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil the Great, and John Chrysostom did not appeal to Christ’s sufferings as a basis for the consolation of the suffering. One reason is that the concept of apatheia was used to preserve God’s transcendent otherness from his creation. The concept, found in pagan writers as the expression of an ethical …
T. A. Noble, Holy Trinity
Carol Harrison, The Art of Listening in the Early Church
God's Presence
In 2011, Frances Young delivered the Bampton Lectures in Oxford to great acclaim. She offered a systematic theology with contemporary coherence, by engaging in conversation with the fathers of the church - those who laid down the parameters of Christian theology and enshrined key concepts in the creeds - and exploring how their teachings can be applied today, despite the differences in our intellectual and ecclesial environments. This book result…
Daniel C. Ullucci, The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice
Dan Hardy Memorial
Wisdom in weakness
The paper explores the discovery of wisdom in weakness, through a shift from anguish over theodicy to an acceptance of challenging circumstances as granting privileged access to the deepest truths of Christianity. It begins with a novelistic narrative of a spiritual journey taken by St Francis of Assissi, which sets the agenda. The topics then covered include: human creatureliness, the wisdom of the cross and the wisdom of apatheia (passionlessne…
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Naked or Clothed? Eschatology and the Doctrine of Creation
A Paper on life after death in the early church should probably begin with the underworld: Sheol in the Hebrew Bible, Hades, in Greek mythology, with parallels in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia. It should reflect on the universally connected theme of judgment and its importance for theodicy, and address the wide variety of beliefs discernible in the New Testament and its background, especially in the apocalyptic literature. It should consi…
Attachment Handbook for Foster Care and Adoption
Origins to Constantine
Over thirty essays provide a comprehensive overview of the essential events, persons, places and issues involved in the emergence of the Christian religion in the Mediterranean world over the first three centuries. The collection traces the dynamic history from the time of Jesus through to the rise of Imperial Christianity in the fourth century. It provides a thoughtful and well-documented analysis of the diverse forms of Christian community, ide…
Towards a Christian paideia
By the mid-third century, have clear evidence that a Christian teacher like Origen could offer a complete philosophical education, which paralleled that which was offered in schools all over the Graeco-Roman world. Teaching and learning were characteristic of Christianity from the beginning. It is plausible to suggest that some early Christian communities were modelled largely on the Jewish synagogue, an organisation that had both religious and '…
Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
Classical genres in Christian guise; Christian genres in classical guise
The 'Golden Age of Patristic Literature', the fourth and fifth centuries provides a mass of material which carries weighty literary and theological significance. Christian rhetoricians began to produce a new literature which had classical styles and genres but Christian content. The Constantinian revolution had reinforced the tendencies for Christians to come from the educated literary elites and to adapt classical modes of writing to Christian e…
Christianity
A political movement? In Acts 11.26 we are told that it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christianoi. It appears to have been a nickname given by others rather than the name chosen by those thus designated. The term occurs only three times in the New Testament. The form of this nickname, with its -anos ending, is Latinate, and words in Latin with this ending normally refer to members of a political faction, followers of a leade…
Paideia and the Myth of Static Dogma
Modern theology often treats patnstlc doctrine as static on the grounds that it dealt in ontological categories, while modern historical scholarship traces the story of doctrinal development in the patristic period. Prima facie it might seem that these perspectives are contradictory, but in fact ‘making and remaking’ implies development to a fixed form, together with the suggestion of a need to unpick a finished tapestry so as to re-weave it, thu…
The rhetorical schools and their influence on patristic exegesis
To honour Henry Chadwick is to honour the great tradition of British scholarship to which Edwin Hatch belonged. The work of Edwin Hatch was the inspiration of this paper, and it may be regarded as a celebration of the centenary of the publication of his Hibbert lectures of 1888, as well as a tribute to one who, like him, has achieved international acclaim for his erudition.
Educating for Excellence
Educating for excellence 1
In the present climate, when future developments are the only thing that can command interest, it may seem rather perverse to turn back to Plato, but in trying to think through current educational problems, I do so unashamedly. One of our problems is the naive assumption that there is an easy practical solution to every problem, and Plato's Socrates it an excellent antidote. Besides this, we soon discover that the very issues that seem to perplex…
Naked or Clothed? Eschatology and the Doctrine of Creation
A Paper on life after death in the early church should probably begin with the underworld: Sheol in the Hebrew Bible, Hades, in Greek mythology, with parallels in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia. It should reflect on the universally connected theme of judgment and its importance for theodicy, and address the wide variety of beliefs discernible in the New Testament and its background, especially in the apocalyptic literature. It should consi…
A Reconsideration of Alexandrian Christology
In modern Christological thinking, the tendency is to start with an affirmation of the real humanity of Christ. We recognise with everincreasing realism that the man, Jesus, lived a life open to historical investigation, a life which was circumscribed within the limitations of a normal human psychology and its contemporary environment. This being our pre-supposition, we tend to approve the Antiochene school for its realistic exegesis of New Testa…
A Reconsideration of Alexandrian Christology
In modern Christological thinking, the tendency is to start with an affirmation of the real humanity of Christ. We recognise with everincreasing realism that the man, Jesus, lived a life open to historical investigation, a life which was circumscribed within the limitations of a normal human psychology and its contemporary environment. This being our pre-supposition, we tend to approve the Antiochene school for its realistic exegesis of New Testa…
Temple Cult and Law in Early Christianity A Study in the Relationship between Jews and Christians in the Early Centuries
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Insight or Incoherence? The Greek Fathers on God and Evil
This paper attempts to explore a number of inter-related ideas—inter-related in so far as they are all concerned in one way or another with evil, and God's relationship with it. The belief most characteristic of Christianity is the assurance that redemption from evil has been achieved for mankind in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our first enquiry is concerned with a basic contradiction in the accounts of this belief given in G…
A Study of the Interaction of Science and the Bible in Two Anthropological Treatises of the Fourth Century
There are some who today assert that biblical ideas should provide a critique of contemporary presuppositions, that theologians should not pay respect to current scientific knowledge at the expense of distinctively Christian insights. My aim in this paper is to explore the extent to which the Bible actually did perform such a function in the theology of the patristic period, by examining the relationship between science and the Bible in two key a…
Adam and Anthropos
Frances M. Young, Adam and Anthropos: A Study of the Interaction of Science and the Bible in Two Anthropological Treatises of the Fourth Century, Vigiliae Christianae, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Jun., 1983), pp. 110-140
Educating for Excellence
Educating for excellence 1
In the present climate, when future developments are the only thing that can command interest, it may seem rather perverse to turn back to Plato, but in trying to think through current educational problems, I do so unashamedly. One of our problems is the naive assumption that there is an easy practical solution to every problem, and Plato's Socrates it an excellent antidote. Besides this, we soon discover that the very issues that seem to perplex…
The rhetorical schools and their influence on patristic exegesis
To honour Henry Chadwick is to honour the great tradition of British scholarship to which Edwin Hatch belonged. The work of Edwin Hatch was the inspiration of this paper, and it may be regarded as a celebration of the centenary of the publication of his Hibbert lectures of 1888, as well as a tribute to one who, like him, has achieved international acclaim for his erudition.
Paideia and the Myth of Static Dogma
Modern theology often treats patnstlc doctrine as static on the grounds that it dealt in ontological categories, while modern historical scholarship traces the story of doctrinal development in the patristic period. Prima facie it might seem that these perspectives are contradictory, but in fact ‘making and remaking’ implies development to a fixed form, together with the suggestion of a need to unpick a finished tapestry so as to re-weave it, thu…
Christianity
A political movement? In Acts 11.26 we are told that it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christianoi. It appears to have been a nickname given by others rather than the name chosen by those thus designated. The term occurs only three times in the New Testament. The form of this nickname, with its -anos ending, is Latinate, and words in Latin with this ending normally refer to members of a political faction, followers of a leade…
Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
Classical genres in Christian guise; Christian genres in classical guise
The 'Golden Age of Patristic Literature', the fourth and fifth centuries provides a mass of material which carries weighty literary and theological significance. Christian rhetoricians began to produce a new literature which had classical styles and genres but Christian content. The Constantinian revolution had reinforced the tendencies for Christians to come from the educated literary elites and to adapt classical modes of writing to Christian e…
Origins to Constantine
Over thirty essays provide a comprehensive overview of the essential events, persons, places and issues involved in the emergence of the Christian religion in the Mediterranean world over the first three centuries. The collection traces the dynamic history from the time of Jesus through to the rise of Imperial Christianity in the fourth century. It provides a thoughtful and well-documented analysis of the diverse forms of Christian community, ide…
Towards a Christian paideia
By the mid-third century, have clear evidence that a Christian teacher like Origen could offer a complete philosophical education, which paralleled that which was offered in schools all over the Graeco-Roman world. Teaching and learning were characteristic of Christianity from the beginning. It is plausible to suggest that some early Christian communities were modelled largely on the Jewish synagogue, an organisation that had both religious and '…
Attachment Handbook for Foster Care and Adoption
Å tilegne seg bibelsk innsikt fra kirkefedrene
Naked or Clothed? Eschatology and the Doctrine of Creation
A Paper on life after death in the early church should probably begin with the underworld: Sheol in the Hebrew Bible, Hades, in Greek mythology, with parallels in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia. It should reflect on the universally connected theme of judgment and its importance for theodicy, and address the wide variety of beliefs discernible in the New Testament and its background, especially in the apocalyptic literature. It should consi…
Wisdom in weakness
The paper explores the discovery of wisdom in weakness, through a shift from anguish over theodicy to an acceptance of challenging circumstances as granting privileged access to the deepest truths of Christianity. It begins with a novelistic narrative of a spiritual journey taken by St Francis of Assissi, which sets the agenda. The topics then covered include: human creatureliness, the wisdom of the cross and the wisdom of apatheia (passionlessne…
Dan Hardy Memorial
God's Presence
In 2011, Frances Young delivered the Bampton Lectures in Oxford to great acclaim. She offered a systematic theology with contemporary coherence, by engaging in conversation with the fathers of the church - those who laid down the parameters of Christian theology and enshrined key concepts in the creeds - and exploring how their teachings can be applied today, despite the differences in our intellectual and ecclesial environments. This book result…
Daniel C. Ullucci, The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice
Apathōs Epathen
Modern Christian writers often appeal to the suffering of Christ as part of a theodicy, but early Christian writers such as Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil the Great, and John Chrysostom did not appeal to Christ’s sufferings as a basis for the consolation of the suffering. One reason is that the concept of apatheia was used to preserve God’s transcendent otherness from his creation. The concept, found in pagan writers as the expression of an ethical …
T. A. Noble, Holy Trinity
Carol Harrison, The Art of Listening in the Early Church
Judith M. Lieu, Marcion and the Making of a Heretic
Philosophy (24 works) · Theology (19 works) · Art (13 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (11 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Literature (10 works) · History (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Christianity (6 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (6 works)