Vox PatrumPub Date : 2024-06-15DOI: 10.31743/vp.16925
Steven Muir
{"title":"Galatians 6:17 and its Reception History: Assessing the Echoes","authors":"Steven Muir","doi":"10.31743/vp.16925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.16925","url":null,"abstract":"This preface engages with the concept of echo as a creative way of generating ideas on how to assess issues in the reception history of a scripture text -- here, Galatians 6:17.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141336467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vox PatrumPub Date : 2024-06-15DOI: 10.31743/vp.16590
Bogna Kosmulska
{"title":"Lektura biblijna według Collatio Patrum XIV Jana Kasjana: od erudycji do doświadczania","authors":"Bogna Kosmulska","doi":"10.31743/vp.16590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.16590","url":null,"abstract":"Artykuł prezentuje sposób, w jaki Jan Kasjan, przede wszystkim w Collatio Patrum XIV, radzi sobie z aintelektualizmem (czasem wręcz antyintelektualizmem) niektórych elementów tradycji monastycznej i erudycyjnym charakterem innych. We wprowadzeniu, zarysowane zostały ogólne uwarunkowania piśmienności (literackości) we wczesnym monastycyzmie (z uwzględnieniem świadectw o św. Antonim z Prologu do De doctrina christiana św. Augustyna oraz o abba Teodorze z De institutis coenobiorum Kasjana). W głównej części artykułu przeanalizowana została Collatio XIV, czyli rozmowa z abba Nesterosem o wiedzy duchowej. Obok klasycznych podziałów wiedzy oraz sensów biblijnych, omówione zostały: 1) medium przekazu samych dzieł Kasjana (pisanych, lecz zawierających pewną krytykę pisma, zwłaszcza samej tylko erudycji); 2) uniwersalności kultury pisma; 3) znaczenia pojęcia medytacji, w tym nocnej (niekoniecznie obejmującej jedynie nocną służbę liturgiczną, ale i czas przeznaczony na odpoczynek); 4) dynamiki rozwoju duchowego słuchacza/czytelnika Pisma św., w tym tytułowej trudności, charakterystycznej dla czytelnika młodego i wykształconego – przechodzenia od erudycji do doświadczenia. Głównym wnioskiem artykułu jest, że Kasjan reprezentuje wyważoną linię w kwestii chrześcijańskiego intelektualizmu (gnozy). Choć nie porzuca żadnej z intelektualnych zdobyczy swojego pierwotnego środowiska, którego problemy odzwierciedla Collatio XIV, to formułuje uniwersalną propozycję również dla chrześcijan niewykształconych, którzy mogą być uczestnikami nie tylko chrześcijańskiej praxis, ale również theoria.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"4 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141336968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vox PatrumPub Date : 2024-06-15DOI: 10.31743/vp.16835
Steven Muir
{"title":"Two-Way Trauma in Paul's Letter to the Galatians","authors":"Steven Muir","doi":"10.31743/vp.16835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.16835","url":null,"abstract":"This essay considers the blunt and controversial statement of Paul at the conclusion of Galatians (Gal 6:17). Paul says, “from now on, let no one trouble me, for I bear on my body the marks (stigma, brand or tattoo) of Christ.” Scholars agree that Paul is speaking metaphorically about the scars he received in ministry. By calling his scars “tattoos,” Paul makes an odd sort of honour claim, since tattoos typically were inflicted on low-status slaves in the Roman empire as a mark of ownership and punishment. This essay looks at a common thread of trauma and violence in the letter to the Galatians. Paul works through the traumas he received in two ways. First, he presents a variety of traumatic episodes in the Galatian community – at times, lashing out at his opponents. Second, he deliberately inverts honor and status categories. By boldly claiming to be Christ’s slave Paul asserts his status and finds meaning and vindication in his suffering. This essay takes a more wholistic view of the letter to the Galatians that has previously been done.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"6 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141337025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vox PatrumPub Date : 2024-06-15DOI: 10.31743/vp.16845
W. Helleman
{"title":"Marius Victorinus on the Stigmata of the Apostle Paul (Gal 6:17)","authors":"W. Helleman","doi":"10.31743/vp.16845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.16845","url":null,"abstract":"This discussion of the fourth-century commentary of Marius Victorinus on Paul’s epistle to the Galatians serves as a critical witness to late ancient understanding of Paul’s self-identification with the stigmata of Christ (of Gal 6:17), as the marks of his humiliating death on the cross. Echoing Paul on “being crucified with Christ”, Victorinus exhorted Christians to follow that example in suffering for their faith, warning them that suffering is inevitable. The present textual study uses linguistic, grammatical, rhetorical, and socio-historical analysis, particularly on the key terms, stigmata and mysterium. It concludes that Victorinus associated these terms to give meaning to trauma and suffering for Christians. The term mysterium in Victorinus’ work is closely associated with central aspects of Christ’s life and work, especially his crucifixion and death. While rejecting the “history of religions” school of thought on Christian liturgy borrowing from mystery religions, this study concludes that Victorinus’ use of the term mysterium reflects a move in fourth century Christianity to adapt language of the mysteries for the sacraments; more particularly, baptism is understood as a symbolic reenactment of Christ’s crucifixion, death and resurrection. Such an approach enhances the meaning of suffering in terms of service to Christ, for in baptism Christians share not only in Christ’s death, as suffering “with Christ”, but also in his resurrection, as victory over sin, suffering and death.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"6 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141337388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vox PatrumPub Date : 2024-06-15DOI: 10.31743/vp.16941
Maria Dasios
{"title":"Rendering Trauma Beneficial… for Whom? Gregory of Nyssa’s Homily 12 on the Song of Songs","authors":"Maria Dasios","doi":"10.31743/vp.16941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.16941","url":null,"abstract":"Gregory’s Homily 12 on the Song of Songs offers one opportunity to trace the legacies of the compelling claim, in Galatians 6:17, that Paul bears “the marks of Christ” on his body. Gregory appeals to this verse to aid his exegesis of Song 5:7 (a violent passage he calls “repellant in its plain sense”) and develop his claims that “the wound”, after all, is “an admirable thing”. My paper probes social and ethical dimensions of this exegetical and cultural conceptual lineage. It surveys wounds and marks in Homily 12; suggests how other works by Gregory support “striking and wounding” as enacting spiritual healing (ἴασιν); considers contexts for violence in the name of guardianship and instruction in late antiquity; and closes by considering violence enacted in the name of Christianization and “civilization” in Canada’s residential schools. This study embeds Gregory’s treatment of Gal 6:17 in a larger attempt to raise critical questions about the persistence of benevolent understandings of trauma and violence across diverse Christian exegetical contexts and the harms such understandings may perpetuate.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"5 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141337105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vox PatrumPub Date : 2024-06-15DOI: 10.31743/vp.16899
Jimmy Chan
{"title":"The Therapeutic Gospel for the Traumatic World. Stigmata Domini Iesu Christi in Corpore as the Crown of Victory","authors":"Jimmy Chan","doi":"10.31743/vp.16899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.16899","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on Augustine’s Epistolae ad Galatas Expositionis Liber Unus, I would like to explore two insights into the therapeutic understanding of persona trauma. First, for Augustine, Paul’s past turbulentas contentiones are not in and of themselves stigmata domini Iesu Christi. What, then, is the meaning and significance for Augustine of Paul’s statement “For I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ in my body” (Gal 6:17)? Secondly, Augustine recognizes that Paul has been fighting his “alios conflictus et certamina”. What is his struggle and how does it relate to the stigmata of the Lord Jesus Christ in the body? In traumatic experiences, our hearts may be troubled by the guilt of the traumatic experiences (for example, by asking questions like: “Did I do something wrong to cause this?”). Paul is able to recognize and reject anyone (or anything) that might tempt him to return to the accusation of the law, hence the declaration: “De cetero, inquit, laborem nemomihi praestet”. I argue that by interpreting the metaphorical sense of ad coronam uictoriae proficiebant, Augustine pronounces Christ’s victory on the Cross over sin and death by explaining Paul’s proclamation of his hermeneutic of Christ’s stigmata. Through this soteriological lens, Augustine brings his interpretation of Galatians to its climax by proclaiming “Gratia domini nostri Iesu Christi cum spiritu uestro, fratres, Amen” (Gal 6:18).","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"3 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141337395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vox PatrumPub Date : 2024-06-15DOI: 10.31743/vp.16253
R. Groń, Marsha L. Dutton, Robert Sochań
{"title":"Aelred z Rievaulx, Pewien wspaniały cud","authors":"R. Groń, Marsha L. Dutton, Robert Sochań","doi":"10.31743/vp.16253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.16253","url":null,"abstract":"Artykuł ma na celu prezentację tłumaczenia z łaciny kościelnej na język polski wraz z komentarzem do dzieła angielskiego dwunastowiecznego opata z cysterskiego opactwa w Rievaulx, Aelreda, pt. Pewien wspaniały cud. Artykuł został podzielony na trzy części: krótka nota dotycząca życia i twórczości Aelreda (1110-1167), jego spuścizna literacka z uwzględnieniem tłumaczeń na język polski (1); przedstawienie samego utworu z uwzględnieniem jego środowiska, historii, znaczenia i przeznaczenia (2). Pierwsza część jest autorstwa redaktora niniejszego przedsięwzięcia, Ryszarda Gronia; drugą część napisała prof. Marsha L. Dutton, z Uniwersytetu z Ohio w USA, zaproszona do współpracy. Tłumaczenia z łaciny podjął się Robert Sochań, tłumaczenia artykułu prof. Dutton z j. angielskiego dokonał Ryszard Groń. Trzecią część stanowi już polski tekst prezentowanego dzieła Aelreda (3).","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"81 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141338102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vox PatrumPub Date : 2024-06-15DOI: 10.31743/vp.17010
Warren Campbell
{"title":"Stigmata and the Pressure of Interpretation","authors":"Warren Campbell","doi":"10.31743/vp.17010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.17010","url":null,"abstract":"Some conclusions of the series of the articles on the stigmata.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"86 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141337672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}