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Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins
an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar
in its thirty-eighth year under the auspices of
The University of Pennsylvania
Department of Religious Studies
201 Logan Hall, Philadelphia PA 19104
Current Topic:
"The Wild Wild West: Religious and Societal Transformations on
the North African Frontier"
Chairs: William Gruen and Shira Lander (University of Pennsylvania)
We are privileged to announce an ADDITIONAL meeting of the Philadelphia
Seminar on Christian Origins on TUESDAY, March 13, 7-9 pm in the second
floor lounge of Logan Hall at the University of Pennsylvania. David G.
Hunter will speak on "Christianizing Marriage in Roman North Africa
(200-400): The Liturgical Evidence." David Hunter is Professor of
Religious Studies at Iowa State University. He holds the Monsignor James
Supple Chair of Catholic Studies. Author of _Marriage in the Early
Church. Sources of Early Christian Thought_ (Fortress Press, 1992) and
_Augustine. Marriage and Virginity. The Works of Saint Augustine, I/9_
(New City Press, 1999), Hunter will engage the question of the
“Christianization” of marriage practices in Roman North Africa by
examining the character of the liturgical celebration of marriage in the
years between Tertullian and Augustine (ca. 200-400 CE).
Professor Hunter will review the extant literary sources to determine to
what extent Christians in North Africa may (or may not) have developed
specifically Christian rituals for the observance of betrothal or
marriage. He will argue that there seems to be little evidence of any
specifically Christian rituals of marriage in North Africa and that this
paucity of evidence contrasts with what is known of churches elsewhere in
the west at this time, e.g., in Rome. Moreover, this lack of liturgical
development stands in some tension with the relatively well-developed
theologies of marriage found in Tertullian and Augustine. He will also
attempt to account for this apparent gap between practice and theory in
the work of Tertullian and Augustine by engaging the work of Philip Lyndon
Reynolds, _Marriage in the Western Church: The Christianization of
Marriage During the Patristic and Early Medieval Periods_ (Leiden: Brill,
1994).
Recommended Readings (for proper diacritics, see the PSCO web page!):
Henri Crouzel, “Deux textes de Tertullien concernant la proe/dure et les
rites du mariage chre/tien,” Bulletin de lite/rature eccle/siastique 74
(1973): 3-13.
Korbinian Ritzer, Le mariage dans les E/glises chre/tiennes du Ier au Xie
sie\cle (Paris: Cerf, 1970), 84-94, 110-123, 222-237.
H.A. Sanders, “A Latin Marriage Contract,” Transactions of the American
Philological Association 69 (1938): 104-116.
Kenneth Stevenson, Nuptial Blessing. A Study of Christian Marriage Rites
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), ch. 1, pp. 3-32.
DINNER
We will gather for supper at 6:10 pm in Houston Marketplace, the basement
of Houston Hall (next to Logan Hall). The Marketplace offers an
inexpensive a la carte variety cuisine buffet. For those who do not know
the location, we will be leaving from the Logan Lounge at 6:00 p.m.
For more information contact one of the co-chairs, Shira Lander
([log in to unmask]) or Chip Gruen ([log in to unmask]), or
consult the PSCO web page http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psco
--
Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html
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