Jerome’s Contra Johannem and ps.-Basil’s De consolatione in adversis on resurrection and disability

Synodinos, Chris (author)

This paper concerns disability and bodily resurrection, the latter being a topic that has bemused Christian theologians from the beginning. Specifically, this paper concerns Jerome’s treatise Contra Johannem, directed against John of Jerusalem, a putative Origenist, and De consolatione in adversis attributed to ps.-Basil. The author of Cons. was concerned with the nature of the resurrected body regarding a particular class of disabled people, viz., an audience of lepers, whereas Jerome focuses on the resurrection of the flesh in general. There is some evidence to suggest Cons. is somehow linked, even if implicitly and indirectly, to the Origenist controversy, which primarily concentrates on the nature of the resurrected body. The two prevailing related themes in Cons., to wit, leprosy, and the flesh’s resurrection, relate to the body. It is interesting that the only two codices containing this work also contain Jerome’s epistle Contra Johannem. These two works occur again in the editio princeps (Paris 1528). The significance of this thematic connection remains to be explained, and St. Jerome’s influence clarified.

• Language: English
• Keywords: affliction, leprosy, redemptive suffering, the resurrection of the flesh, spiritual body, resurrection body, origenism, garment of glory, garment of brilliance
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2021
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 325-336
• Numbering: Letn. 81, [št.] 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163913
• UDC: 27-36-1sv.Hieronim
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2021/02/Synodinos
• COBISS.SI-ID: 87500803
• Publication date in RUL: 14.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Bogoslovna akademija, Bogoslovna akademija, Teološka fakulteta v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Hieronimov Contra Johannem in ps.-Bazilijev De consolatione in adversis o vstajenju in telesnih okvarah

Abstract

Članek obravnava temo telesne okvare in telesnega vstajenja, pri tem pa je telesno vstajenje področje, ki je krščanske teologe zaposlovalo že od začetka. Natančneje, ta članek zadeva Hieronimovo razpravo Contra Johannem, ki je usmerjena proti Janezu Jeruzalemskemu, domnevnemu origenistu, in proti delu De consolatione in adversis, pripisano Ps.-Baziliju. Avtor De consolatione se ukvarja z naravo vstalega telesa glede na razred telesne okvare, namreč gobavcev, medtem ko se Hieronim osredotoča na vstajenje mesa na splošno. Obstaja nekaj dokazov, ki kažejo, da je De consolatione povezan, tudi če le implicitno in posredno, z origenistično polemiko, ki se ukvarja predvsem z naravo vstalega telesa. Obe prevladujoči povezani temi v De consolatione, gobavost in vstajenje mesa, zadevata telo. Zanimivo je, da edina kodeksa, ki vsebujeta to delo, vsebujeta tudi Hieronimovo pismo Contra Johannem. Obe deli ponovno nastopata v editio princeps (Pariz 1528). Pomen te tematske povezave je treba še pojasniti, razjasniti pa kaže tudi vpliv sv. Hieronima.

• Keywords: bolezen, gobavost, odrešitveno trpljenje, vstajenje mesa, duhovno telo, origenizem, vstajenje, oblačilo slave, oblačilo sijaja