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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-, et al.
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Byzantine Tree Life : Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination
- 2021
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific discoveries of how communicative trees may be, and how they defend themselves. Considering writings on and images of trees from Late Antiquity and medieval Byzantium sympathetically, the book argues for an arboreal imagination at the root of human aspirations to know and draw close to the divine.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, et al.
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Sexuality and Orthodoxy : An Introduction
- 2022
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In: Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality. - New York : Fordham University Press. - 9780823299690 - 9780823299676 - 9780823299683 ; , s. 1-20
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Arentzen, Thomas, et al.
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Some Early Christian Trees
- 2021
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In: Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019 : Volume 1: Introduction; Historica - Volume 1: Introduction; Historica. - Leuven : Peeters Publishers. - 9789042947443 - 9789042947450 ; 104, s. 127-137
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the wake of the current environmental crisis, scholars of late antique Christianity are beginning to study Christian attitudes towards the natural world. How did the early Christians relate to their environment? This article explores perceptions of trees, surveying the writings of Tertullian, Basil of Caesarea, and Sozomen the historian. What did an arboreal plant do, according to patristic authors? What kind of agency did they imagine trees to have? The investigation shows that members of the educated elite might think of trees as bodies with living, intelligent souls; they saw complex variety and gendered creatures with personal characteristics when they gazed at beings in bark. Certain arboreal species engaged in and were communicating through a sexual-life; many individuals made rational choices. Although trees are not free to move around, Christians assumed that boughs and branches could bend in devotion as trees expressed attention to divine presence.
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- Arentzen, Thomas
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The Chora of God : Approaching the Outskirts of Mariology in the Akathistos
- 2021
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In: Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies. - : Project Muse. - 2574-4968 .- 2574-495X. ; 4:2, s. 127-149
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article explores the more-than-human characterization of the Theotokos in the famous Akathistos Hymn. The Mother of God emerged as an intercessional figure in the Christian imagination during late antiquity, but the formative period of mariology is still partly uncharted territory to modern scholarship. Reflecting on its rich landscape imagery and chora language, the article argues that the Akathistos minimizes the human traits of the Theotokos, rendering her more as a spatial phenomenon. In the hymn, we may glimpse traces of Marian ideas less developed during subsequent periods, ideas which gesture toward what we may call a "dark mariology." The Logos incarnates into more than human flesh, and the womb has a close affinity with the landscape. The Akathistos evokes the vision of a wider nonhuman participation in the incarnation rooted in the natural landscape of the Theotokos.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-, et al.
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Wisdom on the Move : An Introduction
- 2020
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In: Wisdom on the Move: Late Antique Traditions in Multicultural Conversation. - Leiden : Brill Nijhoff. - 0920-623X. - 9789004430693 - 9789004430747 ; , s. 1-10
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Gehlin, Sara, et al.
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Catholicity and the Way of Just Peace
- 2016
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In: Catholicity under Pressure : The Ambiguous Relationship between Diversity and Unity. Proceedings of the 18th Academic Consultation of the Societas Oecumenica. - Leipzig : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt - Wissenschaft. - 9783374041619 ; Beihefte zur Ökumenische Rundschau 105, s. 335-343
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)
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