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THEOLOGICA Vol ACTA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE 2020 THEOLOGICA Vol. 10, No. 2 THEME Friendship in Patristic Literature CHARLES UNIVERSITY KAROLINUM PRESS EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief David Vopřada (Katolická teologická fakulta UK, Praha) Executive Editor Barbora Šmejdová (Katolická teologická fakulta UK, Praha) Editor of the Thematic Part Lenka Karfíková (Evangelická teologická fakulta UK, Praha) Editorial Board Alejandro Bertolini (Facultad de Teología, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argenti- na, Buenos Aires, Argentina) Alex Villas Boas (Centro de Investigação em Teologia e Estudos de Religião, Lisboa, Portugal) Julie Clague (Theology & Religious Studies, University of Glasgow, UK) Denisa Červenková (Katolická teologická fakulta UK, Prague, Czech Rep.) Richard Čemus (Pontificium Institutum Orientale, Rome, Italy) René Dausner (Institut für Katholische Theologie, Universität Hildesheim, Germany) Slavomir Dlugoš (Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät, Universität Wien, Austria) Tomáš Halík (Filozofická fakulta UK, Prague, Czech Rep.) Oleh Kindij (Ukrainskij katolickij universitet, Ľviv, Ukraine) Branko Klun (Teološka fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia) Volker Leppin (Institut für Spätmittelalter und Reformation, Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Tübingen, Germany) Miloš Lichner (Teologická fakulta Trnavskej univerzity, Bratislava, Slovakia) Martin M. Lintner (Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule, Brixen, Italy) Ivana Noble (Evangelická teologická fakulta UK, Prague, Czech Rep.) Ctirad Václav Pospíšil (Cyrilometodějská teologická fakulta UP, Olomouc, Czech Rep.) Michael Rosenberger, (Institut für Moraltheologie, Katholische Privatuniversität Linz, Austria) Jakub Sirovátka (Teologická fakulta JU, České Budějovice, Czech Rep.) Petr Štica (Katolická teologická fakulta UK, Prague, Czech Rep.) Gabriela I. Vlková (Cyrilometodějská teologická fakulta UP, Olomouc, Czech Rep.) Elias Wolff (Pontifícia Universidade Católica da Paraná, Brasil) Ľubomír Žák (Pontificia Università Lateranense, Rome, Italy) AUC Theologica Univerzita Karlova Katolická teologická fakulta Thákurova 3, 160 00 Praha 6 Czech Republic e-mail: [email protected] www.theologica.cz © Charles University, 2020 ISSN 1804-5588 (Print) ISSN 2336-3398 (Online) CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ..................................................... 5 THEME Friendship in Patristic Literature MARKÉTA DUDZIKOVÁ Friendship with God as an Ultimate Ideal in the Writings of Philo of Alexandria ...................................................... 9 JIŘÍ HOBLÍK Pseudo-Clementine Writings as Evidence of Friendship, Christian Community, and Polemics in the Early Church ............... 27 ERIKA BRODŇANSKÁ On Friends and False Friendship in the Poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus ...... 41 DARIA MOROZOVA Syriac Friends of St. Theodoret of Cyrrhus in the Ukrainian Synaxarion of St. Dymytriy Tuptalo ............................................. 55 LENKA KARFÍKOVÁ Frater Cordis Mei: Friendship in Augustine’s Confessions. 69 VARIA KAREL SLÁDEK The Archetype of the Woman in the Life and Work of Paul Evdokimov ....... 95 LUKÁŠ JAN FOŠUM l’Identité masculine et féminine chez Jacques Maritain face au document de la Congrégation pour l’éducation catholique sur le genre ............. 107 FRANK G. BOSMAN ‘Adam Lay Ybounden’: A Marian Felix Culpa ............................. 123 LUCIE KOLÁŘOVÁ Interpretiertes Christentum? Kritische Relektüre von Ratzingers Einführung in das Christentum ................................................. 141 REVIEWS & NEWS Josef Mikulášek, Dynamická církev: Promýšlení ekleziologie J. B. Metze na prahu třetího tisíciletí (Pavel Frývaldský) ................................................. 165 Ctirad Václav Pospíšil, I řekl Bůh: Trinitární teologie stvoření (Pavel Frývaldský) ................................................. 168 INTRODUCTION As a relationship based on personal choice, not consan- guinity, friendship is one of the most precious elements of human culture. The institution of friendship, both in private and social life, played a very important role in ancient literature and philosophy. The story of Achilles and Patroclus, the heroes of the Trojan War reported by Homer, remains unforgettable. Achilles grieving over Patroclus, ‘his most beloved friend’, who died in his armour and in his place, as it were, is among the most touching parts of the Iliad (XVIII,78–126) and of world literature in general. The friendship of Orestes and Pylades, narrated by Euripides in Iphigenia in Tauris and known, thanks to the drama of Marcus Pacuvius, to the Latin authors, including the Chris- tian ones, had a similar meaning. For most ancient philosophical schools, starting from Socra- tes, friendship was both the setting and the topic of philosophical discussions. In the Bible, the institution of friendship is not unknown either. Besides many sayings on its value in the wisdom literature (e.g. Prov. 27:17; 27:6; Sir. 6:14–17; 7:18; 9:10), the Old Testament narrates the story of the friendship between David and Jonathan, which was even confirmed by a special agreement and by Jonathan giving David his clothing and his armour, too (1 Sam 18:1–4). As the New Testament witnesses, Jesus wept for his friend Lazarus after his death (J 11:11.35) and he called his disciples, including Judas (Mt 26:50), his friends (Lk 12:4; J 15:13–15). In the same vein, Abraham and Moses were even titled ‘friends of God’ (Is. 41:8; Jm. 2:23; Ex 33:11), as pointed out by Philo of Alexandria and the Christian authors after him. 5 Besides the theological application of the term of ‘friendship’, the patristic authors entered friendships – friendships between bishops seem to have been a special social instance – and they also referred to it in their correspondence, biographical or autobiographical narratives, and philosophical dialogues imitating Plato or Cicero. The contributions which follow show different facets of friendship in patristic literature, including its indispensable inspiration in the work of the Jewish scholar Philo of Alexandria. They were presented at the conference ‘Friends and Opponents: How did Church Fathers Write about Their Friends and Opponents’, held on 20th – 21st Septem- ber 2018 at the Theological Faculty of Trnava University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Besides this faculty, the other organisers of this conference, attended by twenty-six speakers from six countries, were the Slovak Patristic Society and the Patristic Society of the Czech Republic. In what follows, we publish a selection of contributions from this conference, dealing with the friendship with God in Philo of Alex- andria (Markéta Dudziková, Czech Republic), the friendship lived in the Christian community according to the Pseudo-Clementine writ- ings (Jiří Hoblík, Czech Republic), the true and false friendships in the poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus (Erika Brodňanská, Slovakia), ‘the friends of God’ according to Theodoret of Cyrrhus, as interpret- ed by the Ukrainian theologian Dymytriy Tuptalo (Daria Morozova, Ukraine), and the role of friendship in Augustine’s Confessions (Lenka Karfíková, Czech Republic). Lenka Karfíková and Miloš Lichner doi: 10.14712/23363398.2020.54 6 THEME Friendship in Patristic Literature AUC THEOLOGICA 2020 – Vol. 10, No. 2 Pag. 9–25 FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD AS AN ULTIMATE IDEAL IN THE WRITINGS OF PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA1 MARKÉTA DUDZIKOVÁ ABSTRACT Philo of Alexandria wrote about what it meant to be a ‘friend of God’ in relation to key biblical figures. This article explores to what extent Philo’s under- standing of the human relationship to God was inspired by the Greek concept of friendship based on the equal reciprocation of similar goods. It also addresses the complexity of Philo’s view of such a relationship and the notion that to become a friend of God is to realise an ideal state of being. I will also illustrate Philo’s influ- ence on early Christian authors Clement of Alexandria and Gregory of Nyssa. Keywords: Friendship; Philo of Alexandria; Friend of God; Reciprocity; Moses; Abraham; Equality; Gregory of Nyssa DOI: 10.14712/23363398.2020.55 Friendship with God is one of the most important themes not only in the writings of Philo of Alexandria, but also in the early Christian literature. But can it be claimed as a novel idea in the con- text of the Greek philosophical tradition?2 The main objection to the 1 This study was funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR 19-18046S: ‘The relationship between the uncreated God and created beings according to Gregory of Nyssa as a follow-up to the Alexandrian biblical exegesis’) and the Charles University Research Centre Programme (No. 204053). 2 For ancient concepts of friendship, cf. Ludovic Dugas, L’amitié antique (Paris: F. Alcan, 19142); Kurt Treu, ‘Freundschaft,’ in Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum, vol. 8, eds. Theodor Klauser et al. (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1972), col. 418–434; Jean- Claude Fraisse, Philia. La notion d’amitié dans la philosophie antique. Essai sur un problème perdu et retrouvé (Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 1974); Alfons Fürst, © 2020 The Author. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which 9 permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. MARKÉTA DUDZIKOVÁ possibility of friendship with God is the connection between friendship and equality. The idea that God brings together those who are simi- lar or equal is to be found in the Odyssey
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