History of Christianity: Early Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona in 2005
Religious Studies Review • VOLUME 35 • NUMBER 4 • DECEMBER 2009 NEW LIGHT ON MANICHAEISM: PAPERS FROM onic myth is included as an appendix. This is a groundbreak- THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ing work in scholarship on Manichaeism. MANICHAEISM. Edited by Jason David Beduhn. Nag Birger A. Pearson Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 64. Leiden: Brill, 2009. University of California, Santa Barbara Pp. xiii + 284; plates. $154.00. Published here are sixteen of the papers presented at the international congress on Manichaeism held at Northern History of Christianity: Early Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona in 2005. Papers included are by J. BeDuhn (who organized the congress), B. WHY STUDY THE PAST? THE QUEST FOR THE . By Rowan Williams. Grand Bennett, L. Cirillo, L. Clark, I. Colditz, J K. Coyle, W-P. Funk, HISTORICAL CHURCH Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005. Pp. 129. $15.00. C. Glassé, Z. Gulácsi, C. Leurini, S. N. C. Lieu, G. Mikkelsen, Originating in the 2003 Sarum Lectures at Salisbury E. Morano, C. Reck (two papers), and W. Sunderman (to Cathedral, this volume’s four short chapters begin with a whom the volume is dedicated). Languages of texts dis- disquisition on the possibilities of history itself as a dis- cussed in these papers include Latin, Greek, Coptic, Arabic, tinctly Christian concern, and conclude with reflections on Turkish, Parthian, Middle Persian, Sogdian, Uigur, and the ways in which history and historical reflection can assist Chinese, an illustration of the fact that Manichaeism was the Christian churches today. Within these “brackets,” the once a world religion. One of the most interesting papers is middle chapters include two essays that one might call “case Zsuzsanna Gulácsi’s report of her digital reconstruction of a studies”: the first on the self-identification of Christians beautiful Manichaean book painting from E.
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