Ambrose of Milan's Method of Mystagogical PreachingLiturgical 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 |
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