Hippolytus Between East And West: The Commentaries And The Provenance Of The Corpus (oxford Theology And Religion Monographs)

Who Was Saint Hippolytus? The Answer Has Eluded Historians For Centuries. This Book Offers An In-depth Analysis Of The 'hippolytus Question'. Part I. Hippolytus In Christian Tradition ; 1. The Question Of St. Hippolytus -- 2. The Commentary Genre -- 3. Eusebius -- 4. Jerome -- 5. Hippolytus Orientalis -- 6. The Beginnings Of Hippolytus Romanus -- 7. Hippolytus Romanus In Modern Times -- 8. Hippolytus Of Portus And The Modern Two-hippolyti Hypotheses -- Part Ii. Hippolytus And Eastern Christianity ; 9. Core Documents -- 10. The Antichrist Treatise -- Part Iii. The Asian Milieu Of Apocryphal Sources ; 11. The Apostle Paul -- 12. Martha And Mary -- 13. The Theology Of Martha And Mary -- Part Iv. The Asian Milieu Of Controversies ; 14. The New Prophecy And The Quartodecimans -- Part V. The Asian Milieu Of Apocalypticism ; 15. The Antichrist Theology -- 16. The Eschaton -- 17. Conclusions J.a. Cerrato. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Who was Saint Hippolytus? The answer has eluded historians for centuries. This is the first in-depth analysis of the 'Hippolytus question' in English for over a hundred years. It suggests that this writer, so influential on Western liturgical practice in the twentieth century, is best viewed as a writer of the East. This is the first thorough analysis of the Hippolytus question in English in over a century. Drawing on leading scholarship of the 20th century, it untangles millennia of theory and points to the evidence of the Asian roots of the great biblical commentator.