Proclus of Constantinople and the Cult of the Virgin in Late Antiquity
Homilies 1-5, Texts and Translations
Biographical note
Nicholas Constas, Ph.D. (1994) in Historical Theology, Catholic University of America, is Associate Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass. His most recent publications include major studies on patristic and Byzantine eschatology published in Dumbarton Oaks Papers and the Journal of Early Christian Studies.
Readership
All those interested in classical christology, early Mariology, the religious culture of Late Antiquity, and the history of Orthodox theology, as well as philologists, patristic scholars, and theologians
Reviews
'...Constas’ book represents a masterpiece of elegant erudition.'
Mary B. Cunningham, Sobornost, Vol. 26.
Mary B. Cunningham, Sobornost, Vol. 26.
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