Patrologia Pacifica Selected Papers Presented To The Asia Pacific Early Christian Studies Society Fifth Annual Conference Sendai Japan September 1012 2009 And Other Patristic Studies Vladimir Baranov Editor Kazuhiko Demura Editor by Vladimir Baranov (editor); Kazuhiko Demura (editor) 9781463229443, 1463229445 instant download after payment.

The volume collects selected papers from the fifth annual APECSS conference which focused on the topic of letters from Christian Antiquity. The conference papers deal with epistolography from the apostle Paul up to Theodore the Studite (ninth century), considered in different aspects, namely, historiography of studies, literary form, Church history, dogmatic contents, attribution, etc. Other patristic studies include hagiography, liturgics, Christian art, early Egyptian monasticism, Islamic-Christian relations in the Middle Ages, and the Jewish background of Christianity.