W. Mayer and C.L. de Wet (eds.) (Routledge; New York, NY: 2018) Reconceiving Religious Conflict deconstructs instances of religious conflict within the formative centuries of Christianity, the first six centuries CE. It explores the theoretical foundations of religious conflict; the dynamics of religious conflict within the context of persecution and martyrdom; the social and moral intersections […]
By Ryan Strickler In September 2018, Ryan Strickler completed his PhD in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University. His thesis, titled “Coping with Crisis: Invasion, Defeat, and Apocalyptic Discourse in Seventh-Century Byzantium”, addresses the use of apocalyptic discourse by Byzantine/Roman authors to rhetorically transform their religious and political identity in the wake of […]
Session One – Hermeneutics of Preaching The Homiletic Audience as Embodied Hermeneutic: Scriptural Interpretation as Psychagogy in the Preaching of John Chrysostom Professor Wendy Mayer John Damascene’s Homily on the Withered Fig Tree: Exegetical and Panegyrical Preaching in Interaction Fr Dr Damaskinos Olkinuora John Damascene on the Transfiguration of the Lord: Mystical Homiletic Performance and […]
By Leonela Fundic Macquarie University Over the period from the fourth to the beginning of the eighth centuries, sacred landscapes in the Mediterranean underwent fundamental changes, which were caused by (or were the reflection of) cultural and artistic interactions between different religions and their utopian ideals. Firstly, the expansion of Christianity and decline of paganism […]