Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction: Preaching after Easter: Fresh Perspectives on an Understudied Topic

Part 1 Towards a Festal History

Chapter 1 Pentekoste, Pfingsten und Himmelfahrt: Grunddaten und Fragen zur Frühgeschichte

Part 2 Mid-Pentecost

Chapter 2 Das Mesopentekoste-Fest: Bezeugung, Charakter, Entstehung

Chapter 3 Les sermons de Pierre Chrysologue sur laMi-Pentecôte (LXXXV et LXXXVbis): Un état de la question

Chapter 4 Die (pseudo-amphilochianische) Mesopentekoste-Predigt CPG 3236

Part 3 Ascension

Chapter 5 La fête de l’Ascension à Antioche d’après l’homéliede Jean Chrysostome In Ascensionem Christi

Chapter 6 Augustine’s Homiletic Appreciation of the Feast of the Ascension: Preaching on Christological Orthodoxy, Divine Soteriology and the Moral Life Forty Days after Easter (serm. 261–265F)

Chapter 7 The Authorship, Thematics, and Reception of anAscension Sermon Attributed to Proclus ofConstantinople (CPG 5820)

Part 4 Pentecost

Chapter 8 Pentecost and Shavuot – Holy Spirit and Torah: The Quest for Traces of a Dialogue between Jews and Christians about a Shared but Separating Festival

Chapter 9 Pentecost Homilies and Late-Antique Christian Exegesis

Chapter 10 The Relative Routine of Preaching: Pneumatomachians in Greek Patristic Sermons on Pentecost

Chapter 11 Pentecost According to Severian of Gabala

ChapterR 12 Unitas Omnibus Linguis Loquitur: An Unidentified Augustinian Sermon on Pentecost

Chapter 13 The Pentecost Feast in Sixth-Century Antioch: The Evidence of Patriarch Severus (512–518)

Chapter 14 Ecrire du Chrysostome: L’exemple de l’homélie 2 Sur la Pentecôte (CPG 4343.2)

Chapter 15 Pentecost and the Senses: A Hermeneutical Contribution to the Visual Medium and the Sensorium in Early Medieval Manuscript Tradition

Part 5 Liturgical Theology: The Example of Leo the Great

Chapter 16 The Resurrection of the Body in Leo the Great’s Ascension and Pentecost Homilies

Chapter 17 Paschal Joy Continued: Exploring Leo the Great’s Theology of Christ’s Ascension into Heaven

Part 6 Notes on Three Recently Edited Greek Ascension Sermons

Chapter 18 Evidence of Authenticity Severian of Gabala, In ascensionem Domini (CPG 5028)

Chapter 19 CPG 4908 In S. Ascensionem Domini Nostri et Salvatoris Iesu Christi

Chapter 20 L’homélie In Ascensionem CPG 4988 et son attribution à Jean Chrysostome

Index of Modern Authors

Scriptural Index

Index of Sources