Preaching as Communication of Education in Late Antique Christianity

古典基督教晚期作为教育传播的讲道

• 批准号: 441781853
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Peter Gemeinhardt
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Seminar Kirchengeschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/441781853?language=en
• 关键词: Preaching; Communication; Education; Late; Antique

In Late Antiquity (and beyond), preaching was the principal means of communication about Christian faith and lifestyle and thus the most important institution of Christian education. Religious speech was foundational for the development and stabilization of Christian identity and practice. Preaching was carried out in regular worship and on festive days as well as within catechetical instruction. In doing so, preachers made use of ancient rhetoric. However, the dispute remained whether one could communicate faith in an “artful” manner. How could one talk about the faith, who was authorized to do so, and how could religious communication be shaped practically and reflected upon theoretically?The present project aims at analyzing late antique sermons with regard to concrete speech acts (ranging from the micro-level of individual elements of speeches to the macro-level of entire sermons) and relating these performative practices to classical and Christian theories of rhetoric. Equally, the content-matter of the sermons – Christian education in terms of knowledge and behaviour – which should be communicated is at stake; finally, the reflection upon possibilities and limits of such educational processes will be scrutinized. In short, the project will investigate how late antique Christian sermonsa) employed education, that is, used rhetorical devices (formal aspect)b) communicated education in the same process (subject-related aspect) andc) reflected upon this educational enterprise with regard to form, content-matter, and agency (didactic aspect).The framework of the investigation will be Gaul and Italy, two cultural spaces which, in Late Antiquity, were subject to severe social, political, and religious transformations and which offer the possibility to reconstruct the fading of different constellations of education in a paradigmatic way. Two doctoral students will do research on the sermons of bishops Peter Chrysologus of Ravenna (d. 458) and Caesarius of Arles (d. 542) respectively. In comparative perspective, other collections of sermons will be touched upon, e.g. of Zeno of Verona (d. after 370) and Maximus of Turin (d. before 423). Augustine’s (d. 430) treatise On Christian Doctrine, a handbook on late antique preaching, will be analyzed considering the question whether it either became normative for Christian homiletical practice or reflected the latter. In this way, the project will pay close attention to the aims and means of the communication of Christian education in Late Antiquity – which H.-I. Marrou once famously but erroneously declared “a period of decline” – and, in a more general view, generate new perspectives for doing research on education as a way of stabilization and dynamization of Christian identity in a period of transition.

在古代晚期（及以后），讲道是传播基督教信仰和生活方式的主要手段，因此是基督教教育最重要的机构。宗教言论是基督教身份和实践发展和稳定的基础。讲道是在定期崇拜和节日以及在教理教学进行。在这样做的时候，传教士利用了古代的修辞。然而，争论仍然存在，一个人是否可以以一种“巧妙”的方式传达信仰。一个人怎么能谈论信仰，谁被授权这样做，宗教传播如何在实践中形成并在理论上反思？本项目的目的是分析有关具体的言语行为（范围从演讲的个别元素的微观层面的宏观层面的整个布道），并将这些施为的做法，修辞的古典和基督教理论晚期古董布道。同样，布道的内容-知识和行为方面的基督教教育-也是至关重要的;最后，对这种教育过程的可能性和局限性的反思也将受到审查。总之，该项目将调查如何晚古董基督教布道） 就业教育，即使用修辞手段（正式方面）B） 在同一过程中交流教育（与学科有关的方面）和c） 本书从形式、内容和媒介（教学方面）对这一教育事业进行了反思。研究的框架将是高卢和意大利，这两个文化空间在古代晚期经历了严重的社会、政治和宗教变革，并提供了以范式的方式重建不同教育星座衰落的可能性。两名博士生将做研究的讲道主教彼得Chrysologus的拉文纳（d. 458)Caesarius of Arles（阿尔勒的凯撒）542)分别在比较的角度来看，其他集合的说教将触及后，例如维罗纳芝诺（四。后370）和马克西姆斯的都灵（d.前423）。Augustine's（D. 430)论文论基督教教义，一本关于晚期古代说教的手册，将被分析，考虑到它是否成为基督教说教实践的规范或反映后者的问题。通过这种方式，该项目将密切关注古代晚期基督教教育传播的目的和手段-H。I. Marrou曾经著名但错误地宣称“一个衰落的时期”-并且，在更普遍的观点中，为研究教育作为过渡时期基督教身份稳定和活力的一种方式提供了新的视角。