Geoffrey David Dunn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 9290870 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Geoffrey David Dunn |
| PRENOMES | Geoffrey David |
| SOBRENOME | Dunn |
| ASSINATURA | DUNN G D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Australian Catholic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5880-1351 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
An African in Rome
At the end of the second century, Christianity in Rome existed as a federation of individual communities, despite the narrative provided in the fourth century by Eusebius. There was a multiplicity of leaders, of social backgrounds, of languages, of beliefs, and of practices among the Christians of Rome. How did the church of Rome maintain unity internally and externally in the presence of such diversity? By the end of the second century, with Vic…
Tertullian, Apostolicity, and the Apostles
How did Tertullian regard the apostles? This article investigates the references to them scattered through his writings both as individuals and as a collective. It reveals that individually the apostles were remote figures who appear in the pages of the New Testament simply as interlocutors of Jesus. Even Peter, significant as he was, was someone whose role was personal to himself and not a pattern for future leadership. Yet collectively the apos…
Bishops under Threat
Origen’s Biblical Interpretation and Classical Forensic Rhetoric
This chapter investigates the presence of classical rhetoric in Origen’s Commentarium in Epistolam ad Romanos. While others suggest that in a genre devoted to exposition rather than persuasion we should not expect to find rhetorical techniques, the position adopted here is that even exposition is an exercise in persuasion. While it is true that there is little ethos or pathos in this commentary, there are many elements of rational argumentation p…
Interpreting the Functions of the Roman Clergy in the Early Fifth Century
Examining the information we have about deacons and presbyters in Rome during the first two decades of the fifth century contributes to the larger picture of their role and function and is instructive for several reasons. While there has been scholarly attention drawn to the prescriptive decrees of the Roman bishops regulating the life of their clergy, particularly regarding the clerical cursus honorum and lifestyle (marriage and sexual continenc…
Dealing with Difference
Religious rivalry exists where groups of people distinguish themselves from others on the basis of differing beliefs and practices touching identity and life's meaning. These differences were addressed in a variety of ways, depending on levels of tolerance: ranging from violence, which captures most attention, through polemic and debate to compromise and negotiation. While all sought to resolve rivalry, the means chosen could involve either an es…
“The toxic offspring of the viper’s seed”
In 418 Augustine encountered Emeritus, one of his Donatist adversaries, in Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell) in Mauretania Caesariensis. In the resultant work, Gesta cum Emerito , Augustine relived some of the arguments that had earlier been employed against the Donatist in 411, particularly by having Alypius read out passages of Aurelius’ 411 letter to Marcellinus, the imperial commissioner ( Epistula 128). Not only does Augustine shape ou…
'For it is improper to be addicted to the tedium of affliction'
The current COVID-19 pandemic has seen some turn to the past to see if the historical evidence provides any assistance to forecasting the probable duration and intensity of the disease and the length of time until a vaccine or cure is found. In this paper, on the contrary, the aim is to look to the present situation to help understand the past. The current pandemic, which seems impossible to halt even as vaccines start to roll out, and threatens …
Church and State in the Dispute over the Vicariate of Thessaloniki during the Pontificate of Boniface I
Following the appointment of Perigenes as bishop of Corinth in 419, some Illyrian bishops, upset that this violated the Nicene canon against the translation of bishops and that Boniface I, bishop of Rome from 418 to 422, had supported Perigenes’s election, secured a law from the eastern emperor, Theodosius II, that judicial appeals were to be heard at Constantinople (Cod. theod. 16.2.45). The innovation that Theodosius condemned was undoubtedly t…
Constantius III, Galla Placidia, and Libanius the Magician
The Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture is a full text open access online journal, edited by members and associates of the Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture and published by Cardiff University Press
Boniface I, Augustine, and the Translation of Honorius to Caesarea Mauretaniae
Augustine’s Epistulae 23A*, 23*, and 22*, written in late 419 and early 420, present his involvement in the dispute concerning the translation of Honorius to Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell), a city Augustine had visited in September 418 while fulfilling a commission from Zosimus of Rome. The translation of bishops from one church to another had been condemned by the 325 Council of Nicaea. The three letters are difficult to interpret becau…
Epistolary Sleight of Hand
Zosimus' Epistula 7 (JK 333 = J3 739, Quid de Proculi) to Patroclus, bishop of Arles, would suggest the normal operations of ecclesiastical judicial procedures: Proclus had been condemned, the validity of an earlier synodal decision had been overturned, and Patroclus' own authority had been upheld. Appearances, however, can be deceiving. Other letters in Liber auctoritatem ecclesiae Arelatensis, particularly three written by Zosimus also in Septe…
Innocent I on Heretics and Schismatics as Shaping Christian Identity
Flavius Constantius, Galla Placidia, and the Aquitanian Settlement of the Goths
Olympiodorus (fr.33) 1 informs us that Galla Placidia, half-sister to Honorius, Roman emperor in the West from 395 to 423, resisted marrying Flavius Constantius (> pollˆmn a[t| únaneoeousa), magister utriusque militiae and consul in 413, after she had been restored to Rome following the death of her Gothic husband Athaulf in 415. 2 Constantius had been instrumental in securing Galla's return by harrying the Goths for several years until they agre…
Cassian in Syria
In the late fourth and early fifth centuries we are informed of the activities of Cassian by Palladius in his defence of John Chrysostom and by Innocent i, both with regard to the exile of John Chrysostom in 404 and with regard to the reconciliation between the churches of Rome and Antioch in 414. Do these three instances refer to the same person and is that person John Cassian? In this paper it is argued that Palladius does indeed refer to John …
Imperial Intervention in the Disputed Roman Episcopal Election of 418/419
Evidence for the conflict between two rival candidates for the bishopric of R ome following the death of Z osimus at the end of 418 comes from a group of twenty‐five letters, most of which are official letters to and from E mperor H onorius (the rest being from other imperial officials and the emperor's sister), all but one of which are found in the C ollectio A vellana . Interestingly, we have nothing preserved from the two episcopal claimants a…
The Church of Rome as a Court of Appeal in the Early Fifth Century
In the early years of the fifth century a significant step in the development of the Roman Church's claim to a universal jurisdiction was taken as it clarified its relationship with the Churches of Eastern Illyricum. Among the letters of Innocent i , bishop of Rome from 402 to 417, there are a half dozen addressed to the churches within that prefecture, politically now in the East but ecclesiastically still looking to Rome. Yet the authority exer…
Tertullian
A Latin‐writing Christian author of the Severan age (late second and early third centuries CE ) from North Africa, Tertullian (Septimius Tertullianus) is an important figure in the history of Christian theology because of his contribution to the development of a Latin theological language, and his rigorous attitudes on wide‐ranging topics give an insight into a style of Christianity whose appeal is still attractive to many.
Easter and the Battle of Pollentia
Interest in the battle of Pollentia in recent years has been confined to the issue of dating the year in which it occurred, the extent to which either Claudian or Prudentius, the two late Roman poets who mention it, depended on the other's work, and the significance of the battle in the political and military careers of its two chief protagonists, Stilicho, the Vandal regent of the emperor Honorius, and Alaric, the Visigothic leader and rebelliou…
The Validity of Marriage in Cases of Captivity
This paper explores Epistula 36 of Innocent I, bishop of Rome in the first quarter of the fifth century, one of the earliest known ecclesial decisions on the validity of a marriage, which was upheld in this instance. By asking questions about the relationship of the recipient of the letter to the parties involved, why Innocent intervened, and the civil implications of a spousal abduction by a foreign enemy we gain insight into a crucial stage of …
Anastasius I and Innocent I
The comment of Jerome in his letter to Demetrias (Epistula 130) that Innocent I, bishop of Rome from 402 to 417, was the son of his predecessor Anastasius I has been taken at face value by a number of commentators and has been repeated, often without reference to sources, on any number of Internet web sites. The fact that Liber Pontificialis offers a different parentage for Innocent is often ignored. This paper seeks to reconcile and evaluate the…
Cyprian and Women in a Time of Persecution
Cyprian believed that the maintenance of ecclesial disciplina was the prime responsibility of a bishop's pastoral ministry, particularly in a time of persecution when people's loyalty was under threat. Throughout his episcopate Cyprian ministered to women as well as men who experienced persecution. Not only was he attempting to secure socio-political support through patronage for his position as bishop but he was applying the prescriptions of the…
Rhetoric and Tertullian's De Virginibus Velandis
Tertullian's de Virginibus Velandis is not simply a somewhat neglected ascetic treatise but a rhetorical treatise about asceticism. The use of classical rhetoric as a modern interpretative tool for early Christian literature is common, although, as witnessed in an article recentlyin this journal, not without its critics. In this deliberative treatise Tertullian argued from Scripture (3.5c-6.3), natural law (7.1-8.4) and Christian discipline (9.1-…
The White Crown of Works
In a letter from Cyprian, bishop of Carthage in the middle of the third century, written while he was in hiding during the Decian persecution to the imprisoned confessors in Carthage, there is mention of two crowns, two colors and two flowers. The letter can be dated to the middle of April 250. Cyprian wanted to console those in prison that they would not be failures if they failed to be martyred. Those who were not martyred could receive equal r…
Cyprian and his collegae
The Roman patron–client relationship has been useful for understanding early Christian bishops and their relationships with their own communities. In this paper the question is asked whether that relationship could shed light on the relationships among bishops themselves. Taking the third–century Saint Cyprian of Carthage as the example, his interactions with other North African bishops at the synod of 252 are examined. The author accepts that Cy…
Rhetoric and Tertullian's De Virginibus Velandis
Tertullian's de Virginibus Velandis is not simply a somewhat neglected ascetic treatise but a rhetorical treatise about asceticism. The use of classical rhetoric as a modern interpretative tool for early Christian literature is common, although, as witnessed in an article recentlyin this journal, not without its critics. In this deliberative treatise Tertullian argued from Scripture (3.5c-6.3), natural law (7.1-8.4) and Christian discipline (9.1-…
The White Crown of Works
In a letter from Cyprian, bishop of Carthage in the middle of the third century, written while he was in hiding during the Decian persecution to the imprisoned confessors in Carthage, there is mention of two crowns, two colors and two flowers. The letter can be dated to the middle of April 250. Cyprian wanted to console those in prison that they would not be failures if they failed to be martyred. Those who were not martyred could receive equal r…
Tertullian and Rebekah
Rebecca, la femme d'Isaac et la mere d'Esau et de Jacob, est mentionnee a neuf reprises dans les ouvrages de Tertullien. A partir d'une analyse attentive des arguments de Tertullien, l'A. demontre qu'au sujet de l'antijudaisme, la litterature chretienne ancienne n'est pas aussi repetitive qu'on a pu le penser. La prophetie de Rebecca a continue a representer pour les ecrivains chretiens posterieurs a Tertullien un argument de premier ordre contre…
Infected Sheep and Diseased Cattle, or the Pure and Holy Flock
Virgins were held in high regard in the North African churches of the third century. Much can be learned about how Cyprian of Carthage operated as bishop by examining his pastoral care of virgins. An analysis of every reference to virgins in his writings reveals that he considered ecclesiastical discipline particularly important for them in that they lived as symbols of the purity of the Church itself. De habitu uirginum, written in Cyprian's ear…
Rhetorical Structure in Tertullian's Ad Scapulam
Cet article etudie la structure rethorique d'un texte tardif de Tertullien (155-220) , le Ad Scapulam, texte adresse a Scapula, alors proconsul d'Afrique. Ayant expose la structure rethorique de ce texte, l'A. montre qu'il ne s'agit pas d'un texte a visee apologetique, voire du resume d'un de ses traites, mais d'un plaidoyer reclamant le demantelement de la politique romaine d'intolerance envers les chretiens
Tertullian and Rebekah
Rebecca, la femme d'Isaac et la mere d'Esau et de Jacob, est mentionnee a neuf reprises dans les ouvrages de Tertullien. A partir d'une analyse attentive des arguments de Tertullien, l'A. demontre qu'au sujet de l'antijudaisme, la litterature chretienne ancienne n'est pas aussi repetitive qu'on a pu le penser. La prophetie de Rebecca a continue a representer pour les ecrivains chretiens posterieurs a Tertullien un argument de premier ordre contre…
The Diversity and Unity of God in Novatians De Trinitate
Rhetorical Structure in Tertullian's Ad Scapulam
Cet article etudie la structure rethorique d'un texte tardif de Tertullien (155-220) , le Ad Scapulam, texte adresse a Scapula, alors proconsul d'Afrique. Ayant expose la structure rethorique de ce texte, l'A. montre qu'il ne s'agit pas d'un texte a visee apologetique, voire du resume d'un de ses traites, mais d'un plaidoyer reclamant le demantelement de la politique romaine d'intolerance envers les chretiens
Cyprian and his collegae
The Roman patron–client relationship has been useful for understanding early Christian bishops and their relationships with their own communities. In this paper the question is asked whether that relationship could shed light on the relationships among bishops themselves. Taking the third–century Saint Cyprian of Carthage as the example, his interactions with other North African bishops at the synod of 252 are examined. The author accepts that Cy…
Infected Sheep and Diseased Cattle, or the Pure and Holy Flock
Virgins were held in high regard in the North African churches of the third century. Much can be learned about how Cyprian of Carthage operated as bishop by examining his pastoral care of virgins. An analysis of every reference to virgins in his writings reveals that he considered ecclesiastical discipline particularly important for them in that they lived as symbols of the purity of the Church itself. De habitu uirginum, written in Cyprian's ear…
The White Crown of Works
In a letter from Cyprian, bishop of Carthage in the middle of the third century, written while he was in hiding during the Decian persecution to the imprisoned confessors in Carthage, there is mention of two crowns, two colors and two flowers. The letter can be dated to the middle of April 250. Cyprian wanted to console those in prison that they would not be failures if they failed to be martyred. Those who were not martyred could receive equal r…
Rhetoric and Tertullian's De Virginibus Velandis
Tertullian's de Virginibus Velandis is not simply a somewhat neglected ascetic treatise but a rhetorical treatise about asceticism. The use of classical rhetoric as a modern interpretative tool for early Christian literature is common, although, as witnessed in an article recentlyin this journal, not without its critics. In this deliberative treatise Tertullian argued from Scripture (3.5c-6.3), natural law (7.1-8.4) and Christian discipline (9.1-…
Cyprian and Women in a Time of Persecution
Cyprian believed that the maintenance of ecclesial disciplina was the prime responsibility of a bishop's pastoral ministry, particularly in a time of persecution when people's loyalty was under threat. Throughout his episcopate Cyprian ministered to women as well as men who experienced persecution. Not only was he attempting to secure socio-political support through patronage for his position as bishop but he was applying the prescriptions of the…
The Validity of Marriage in Cases of Captivity
This paper explores Epistula 36 of Innocent I, bishop of Rome in the first quarter of the fifth century, one of the earliest known ecclesial decisions on the validity of a marriage, which was upheld in this instance. By asking questions about the relationship of the recipient of the letter to the parties involved, why Innocent intervened, and the civil implications of a spousal abduction by a foreign enemy we gain insight into a crucial stage of …
Anastasius I and Innocent I
The comment of Jerome in his letter to Demetrias (Epistula 130) that Innocent I, bishop of Rome from 402 to 417, was the son of his predecessor Anastasius I has been taken at face value by a number of commentators and has been repeated, often without reference to sources, on any number of Internet web sites. The fact that Liber Pontificialis offers a different parentage for Innocent is often ignored. This paper seeks to reconcile and evaluate the…
Easter and the Battle of Pollentia
Interest in the battle of Pollentia in recent years has been confined to the issue of dating the year in which it occurred, the extent to which either Claudian or Prudentius, the two late Roman poets who mention it, depended on the other's work, and the significance of the battle in the political and military careers of its two chief protagonists, Stilicho, the Vandal regent of the emperor Honorius, and Alaric, the Visigothic leader and rebelliou…
Tertullian
A Latin‐writing Christian author of the Severan age (late second and early third centuries CE ) from North Africa, Tertullian (Septimius Tertullianus) is an important figure in the history of Christian theology because of his contribution to the development of a Latin theological language, and his rigorous attitudes on wide‐ranging topics give an insight into a style of Christianity whose appeal is still attractive to many.
The Church of Rome as a Court of Appeal in the Early Fifth Century
In the early years of the fifth century a significant step in the development of the Roman Church's claim to a universal jurisdiction was taken as it clarified its relationship with the Churches of Eastern Illyricum. Among the letters of Innocent i , bishop of Rome from 402 to 417, there are a half dozen addressed to the churches within that prefecture, politically now in the East but ecclesiastically still looking to Rome. Yet the authority exer…
Imperial Intervention in the Disputed Roman Episcopal Election of 418/419
Evidence for the conflict between two rival candidates for the bishopric of R ome following the death of Z osimus at the end of 418 comes from a group of twenty‐five letters, most of which are official letters to and from E mperor H onorius (the rest being from other imperial officials and the emperor's sister), all but one of which are found in the C ollectio A vellana . Interestingly, we have nothing preserved from the two episcopal claimants a…
Innocent I on Heretics and Schismatics as Shaping Christian Identity
Flavius Constantius, Galla Placidia, and the Aquitanian Settlement of the Goths
Olympiodorus (fr.33) 1 informs us that Galla Placidia, half-sister to Honorius, Roman emperor in the West from 395 to 423, resisted marrying Flavius Constantius (> pollˆmn a[t| únaneoeousa), magister utriusque militiae and consul in 413, after she had been restored to Rome following the death of her Gothic husband Athaulf in 415. 2 Constantius had been instrumental in securing Galla's return by harrying the Goths for several years until they agre…
Cassian in Syria
In the late fourth and early fifth centuries we are informed of the activities of Cassian by Palladius in his defence of John Chrysostom and by Innocent i, both with regard to the exile of John Chrysostom in 404 and with regard to the reconciliation between the churches of Rome and Antioch in 414. Do these three instances refer to the same person and is that person John Cassian? In this paper it is argued that Palladius does indeed refer to John …
Epistolary Sleight of Hand
Zosimus' Epistula 7 (JK 333 = J3 739, Quid de Proculi) to Patroclus, bishop of Arles, would suggest the normal operations of ecclesiastical judicial procedures: Proclus had been condemned, the validity of an earlier synodal decision had been overturned, and Patroclus' own authority had been upheld. Appearances, however, can be deceiving. Other letters in Liber auctoritatem ecclesiae Arelatensis, particularly three written by Zosimus also in Septe…
Church and State in the Dispute over the Vicariate of Thessaloniki during the Pontificate of Boniface I
Following the appointment of Perigenes as bishop of Corinth in 419, some Illyrian bishops, upset that this violated the Nicene canon against the translation of bishops and that Boniface I, bishop of Rome from 418 to 422, had supported Perigenes’s election, secured a law from the eastern emperor, Theodosius II, that judicial appeals were to be heard at Constantinople (Cod. theod. 16.2.45). The innovation that Theodosius condemned was undoubtedly t…
Constantius III, Galla Placidia, and Libanius the Magician
The Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture is a full text open access online journal, edited by members and associates of the Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture and published by Cardiff University Press
Boniface I, Augustine, and the Translation of Honorius to Caesarea Mauretaniae
Augustine’s Epistulae 23A*, 23*, and 22*, written in late 419 and early 420, present his involvement in the dispute concerning the translation of Honorius to Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell), a city Augustine had visited in September 418 while fulfilling a commission from Zosimus of Rome. The translation of bishops from one church to another had been condemned by the 325 Council of Nicaea. The three letters are difficult to interpret becau…
Dealing with Difference
Religious rivalry exists where groups of people distinguish themselves from others on the basis of differing beliefs and practices touching identity and life's meaning. These differences were addressed in a variety of ways, depending on levels of tolerance: ranging from violence, which captures most attention, through polemic and debate to compromise and negotiation. While all sought to resolve rivalry, the means chosen could involve either an es…
“The toxic offspring of the viper’s seed”
In 418 Augustine encountered Emeritus, one of his Donatist adversaries, in Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell) in Mauretania Caesariensis. In the resultant work, Gesta cum Emerito , Augustine relived some of the arguments that had earlier been employed against the Donatist in 411, particularly by having Alypius read out passages of Aurelius’ 411 letter to Marcellinus, the imperial commissioner ( Epistula 128). Not only does Augustine shape ou…
'For it is improper to be addicted to the tedium of affliction'
The current COVID-19 pandemic has seen some turn to the past to see if the historical evidence provides any assistance to forecasting the probable duration and intensity of the disease and the length of time until a vaccine or cure is found. In this paper, on the contrary, the aim is to look to the present situation to help understand the past. The current pandemic, which seems impossible to halt even as vaccines start to roll out, and threatens …
Origen’s Biblical Interpretation and Classical Forensic Rhetoric
This chapter investigates the presence of classical rhetoric in Origen’s Commentarium in Epistolam ad Romanos. While others suggest that in a genre devoted to exposition rather than persuasion we should not expect to find rhetorical techniques, the position adopted here is that even exposition is an exercise in persuasion. While it is true that there is little ethos or pathos in this commentary, there are many elements of rational argumentation p…
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