Ambrose of Milan's Method of Mystagogical Preaching

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Liturgical Press, 2002 - 391 pages
This book proposes a method of mystagogy based on the preaching of Ambrose of Milan. Chapter 1 establishes the need for mystagogy. chapter 2 lays out the historical context of Ambrose and his church. Chapters 3-8 are a series of six historical studies on Ambrose and his church that correspond to the components of a homiletic method. Chapter 9 proposes a method of mystagogy for the contemporary church based on Ambrose's preaching.
 

Contents

Chapter 2
31
The Governor and His City
38
Election as Bishop
44
The Bishop and the Empire
51
Ambrose the Pastor
67
Ambroses Private Side
78
Chapter 3
87
Ambrose on Preaching
93
The Pneumatic Dimension of the Listeners
142
Initiation in Milan
148
Liturgy and Mystagogy
185
The Pneumatic Dimension of the Rites
204
Scripture and Mystagogy
219
The Pneumatic Dimension of Scripture as Interpreter
246
Chapter 8
281
The Pneumatic Dimension of Sermon Delivery
304

What Made Ambrose an Effective Preacher?
106
Listening to the Listeners
112
The Newly Baptized as Participants in Mystagogy
124
Chapter 6
140
Question Ambroses Assumptions
311
Bibliography
367
Index
387
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