Office of the Secretary Treasurer John J. O'Keefe Department of Theology Creighton University Omaha, NE 68178 no. 3 April, 1998

Conferences

Thirteenth Annual NAPS Meeting, Loyola, Chicago, 28-30 May, 1998.

The 13^th International Conference on Patristic Studies will meet in Oxford from Monday, 16 August, to Friday, 20 August, 1999. The directors are Dr. M.J. Edwards, Professor R.A. Markus, the Rt. Rev. Dr. R.D. Williams, Professor R.W. Thomson (Chairman), the Rt. Rev. Dr. K.T. Ware, the Rev. Professor M.F. Wiles, the Rev. E.J. Yarnold, the Rev. Professor F.M. Young.

The Conference will open with a Garden Party at the Queen’s College on Monday afternoon; the inaugural lecture that evening will be given by Averil Cameron, Warden of Keble College. The final event will be the evening lecture on Friday by Wolfgang Wischmeyer.

Details of the proposed program and arrangements for accommodations will be sent out with the official invitation in August, 1998. All those who attended the 12^th International Conference, or who sent apologies for absence, will automatically receive invitations. Requests for invitations from other scholars should be addressed to:

Professor R.W. Thomson

13^th International Conference on Patristic Studies

Oriental Institute

Pusey Lane

Oxford OX1 2LE (England)

Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, Sydney, 8-11 January, 1999.

The conference will focus on aspects of the temporal and spiritual concerns of the Early Church and their expression in private and public prayer, liturgy, art, music and the life of early Christians generally.

Papers are invited in areas such as: art, liturgy and devotional practices; asceticism; the bible; dogmatics; dreams, visions and philosophy; exegesis and homiletics; methods of prayer; monasticism; moral life; mysticism, and popular religiosity.

Information is available from Mrs. Margaret Hill, PO Box 786, Frankston, Victoria 3199 (Australia). Tel: (03) 9904 4240 Fax: (03) 9781 3066. Email: margaret.hill @education.monash.edu.au

Announcements

David McGonagle, Director of the CUA Press, and John Petruccione, Associate Prof. of Latin at CUA have won a challenge grant from the NEH. The grant of $388,600, which must be matched on a 3-1 basis, is to establish an endowment to support the publication of a series of low-cost patristic and late-antique texts with facing page translations accompanied by introduction and some annotation. The series, to be know as the "Library of Early Christianity," will include oriental (e.g. Syriac, Coptic, Armenian) as well as western (Greek and Latin) texts. It is conceived as a permanent ongoing enterprise. Advice from members of NAPS on sources of funding as well as proposals for specific volumes should be sent to Dr. D. McGonagle, the CUA Press, The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. 20064.

Books

W. J. Carroll and J.J. Furlong, eds. Greek and Medieval Studies in Honor of Leo Sweeney, S.J. Peter Lang, 1995.

Mary Ann Donovan. One Right Reading? A Guide to Irenaeus. Liturgical Press, 1997.

R. M. Grant. Irenaeus of Lyons. Routledge, 1997.

Carolyn Osiek and David Balch, Families in the New Testament World: Households and House Churches. Westminster John Knox, 1997.

Leo Sweeney. Christian Philosophy: Greek, Medieval, Contemporary Reflections. Peter Lang, 1997.

Maureen Tilley, The Bible in Christian North Africa: The Donatist World. Fortress, 1997.

NAPS on the Net

NAPS has a web site. Point your browsers to: http://puffin.creighton.edu/theo/naps/napshome.html Patristics is available online in a variety of formats. Send "cool" links to: jokeefe@creighton.edu and I will post them on the site.

Miscellaneous

Please remember that if you have published a book or if you have an announcement to make to the Society, please forward the information to John O'Keefe.

If at all possible, please communicate via e-mail: jokeefe@creighton.edu

Address Changes

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