ABSTRACT
This book presents fresh, lively translations of fourteen such homilies, the majority for the first time in English. The homilies were delivered in some of the main cities of the Greek East of the later Roman Empire, by well-known figures such as Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom, as well as the equally gifted preachers Asterius of Amasea and Hesychius of Jerusalem.
'Let us die that we may live' offers an approachable, surprising, and not always reverent insight into the life of the Early Church. It reveals the full importance of the martyr homily in terms of style, treatment of its subject, and social and liturgical issues, in a way that will be useful across disciplines such as theology, classical studies, and religion.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |47 pages
General Introduction
chapter |2 pages
Introduction
chapter |10 pages
Martyrium And Relics: The Centre Of The Martyr Cult
chapter |8 pages
The Yearly PanèGuris
chapter |15 pages
Martyr Homilies
chapter |10 pages
Approaching The Homilies: Possibilities And Limits
part |162 pages
Texts