Papers Presented At The Fourteenth International Conference On Patristic Studies Held In Oxford 2003: Liturgia Et Cultus; Theologica Et Philosophica; Critica Et Philologica; Nachleben; First Two Centu

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Includes studies on the Eucharist in Early Roman Basilicas, Sex and Holy Communion in Late Antiquity, Kissing, Purity, and Early Christian Social Order, The Domestic Origin of the Liturgy of the Word, An Examination of Christian Semiotics, The Theological Background of Iconoclastic Church Programmes, The Metaphor of Imaging from the Second to Fourth Centuries, Irenaeus on Gnostic Biblical Interpretation, Tatians Use of Speech and Fire Metaphors, The Rhetoric of Conversion and the Construction of Experience, Second-generation Montanist Oracles, and many more. Contributions in English, French and German.