The Making of Orthodoxy Essays in Honour of Henry Chadwick [Paperback]

Covers issues of orthodoxy from the first right up to the sixth century.This volume of essays honours Henry Chadwick, probably the greatest and best-known of English scholars of early Christianity. The essays discuss different aspects of how Christianity developed norms and standards in its teaching, how it came to have - and to enforce - a definition of orthodoxy and heresy.This volume of essays honours Henry Chadwick, probably the greatest and best-known of English scholars of early Christianity. The essays discuss different aspects of how Christianity developed norms and standards in its teaching, how it came to have - and to enforce - a definition of orthodoxy and heresy.This volume of essays honours Henry Chadwick, probably the greatest and best-known of English scholars of early Christianity. The essays, written by many of the leading theologians and church historians in the English-speaking world, discuss different aspects of how Christianity developed norms and standards in its teaching, how it came to have - and to enforce - a definition of orthodoxy and heresy. It is a collection of fundamental work by internationally recognised experts. It covers issues of orthodoxy from the first right up to the sixth century, and its wide-ranging surveys of centrally important material in early Christianity will find broad appeal among scholars and students of Old and New Testaments, medieval history and patristics.Preface; List of abbreviations; Bibliography of Henry Chadwick J. C. O'Neill; 1. Does it make sense to speak of pre-Nicene orthodoxy? Rowan Williams; 2. 'And I have other sheep' - John 10:16 W. H. C. Frend; 3. Reason and the rule of faith in the second century AD Eric F. Osborn; 4. Adam in Origen C. P. Bammel; 5. Panegyric, history and hagiography in Eusebius' Life of Constantine T. D. Barnes; 6. Matthew 28:19, Eusebius, and the lex orandi H. Benedict Green; 7. The achievement of orthodoxy in the fourth century AD Richard Hanson; 8. Eunomius: hair-splitting dl&