THE IMAGE AND GLORY OF GOD IN JACOB OF SERUG’S HOMILY, “ON THAT CHARIOT THAT EZEKIEL THE PROPHET SAW” – Alexander Golitzin
Based on a paper given at the North American Patristics Society Conference, May 1998, at Loyola, Chicago, and under review for St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly I. Fides Adorans Mysterium: The Theology of Jacob of Serug We do not have much reliable biographical information about Jacob of Serug [1]. We know that he was born around the middle of the fifth century, the son of a parish priest in the town of Batnan of the region of Serug in the largely Syriac-speaking, Roman province of Osrhoene. He was himself ordained to the priesthood as a celibate in the early 470’s, and...
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