Reception through Polemics: The Internalization of Theological Otherness in Jerome’s Heresiology

Early Christian heresiology is, like polemics in general, a genre that has commonly been negatively perceived in scholarship. There is an idea of heresiological texts as not only historically unreliable, but also unproductive, in contrast to the creative thinking that can be found in theological tre...

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Autor principal:	Pålsson Katarina
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Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	jerome of stridon the jovinianist controversy heresiology reception studies asceticism dialogism hybridity Religion (General) BL1-50
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6264aec6a8bd4dae9d15e978e0934edc2021-12-05T14:11:01ZReception through Polemics: The Internalization of Theological Otherness in Jerome’s Heresiology2300-657910.1515/opth-2020-0172https://doaj.org/article/6264aec6a8bd4dae9d15e978e0934edc2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2020-0172https://doaj.org/toc/2300-6579Early Christian heresiology is, like polemics in general, a genre that has commonly been negatively perceived in scholarship. There is an idea of heresiological texts as not only historically unreliable, but also unproductive, in contrast to the creative thinking that can be found in theological treatises. Considering the understanding of heresiology as reactive and exclusive, it is not surprising that heresiological works have seldom been examined in reception studies. The present article wants to challenge the idea of heresiological work as merely rejecting heresies in the defence of a pre-existing orthodoxy, by applying a dialogical reading to the work Adversus Iovinianum by Jerome of Stridon, a treatise in which he defended the superiority of virginity over marriage against Jovinian’s idea of the equality of all the baptized. Building on the understanding of dialogue expressed by Mikhail Bakhtin, as well as his concept of hybridity, the article analyses how Jerome, instead of simply rejecting core elements of Jovinian’s ideas, such as the goodness of marriage and the natural condition of human beings, rather reappropriates them and integrates them into his making of orthodoxy. The result is a hybrid construction in which anti-ascetic arguments are integrated in a rhetoric of asceticism.Pålsson KatarinaDe Gruyterarticlejerome of stridonthe jovinianist controversyheresiologyreception studiesasceticismdialogismhybridityReligion (General)BL1-50ENOpen Theology, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 574-589 (2021)
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description	Early Christian heresiology is, like polemics in general, a genre that has commonly been negatively perceived in scholarship. There is an idea of heresiological texts as not only historically unreliable, but also unproductive, in contrast to the creative thinking that can be found in theological treatises. Considering the understanding of heresiology as reactive and exclusive, it is not surprising that heresiological works have seldom been examined in reception studies. The present article wants to challenge the idea of heresiological work as merely rejecting heresies in the defence of a pre-existing orthodoxy, by applying a dialogical reading to the work Adversus Iovinianum by Jerome of Stridon, a treatise in which he defended the superiority of virginity over marriage against Jovinian’s idea of the equality of all the baptized. Building on the understanding of dialogue expressed by Mikhail Bakhtin, as well as his concept of hybridity, the article analyses how Jerome, instead of simply rejecting core elements of Jovinian’s ideas, such as the goodness of marriage and the natural condition of human beings, rather reappropriates them and integrates them into his making of orthodoxy. The result is a hybrid construction in which anti-ascetic arguments are integrated in a rhetoric of asceticism.
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title	Reception through Polemics: The Internalization of Theological Otherness in Jerome’s Heresiology
title_short	Reception through Polemics: The Internalization of Theological Otherness in Jerome’s Heresiology
title_full	Reception through Polemics: The Internalization of Theological Otherness in Jerome’s Heresiology
title_fullStr	Reception through Polemics: The Internalization of Theological Otherness in Jerome’s Heresiology
title_full_unstemmed	Reception through Polemics: The Internalization of Theological Otherness in Jerome’s Heresiology
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Reception through Polemics: The Internalization of Theological Otherness in Jerome’s Heresiology

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