Dieu sauve en se montrant. La révélation rédemptrice dans la troisième <i>Hymne sur la Nativité</i> de St. ÉphremOrientalia Christiana PeriodicaSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/XQSWG8BN/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.BertDaelemansDieu sauve en se montrant. La révélation rédemptrice dans la troisième <i>Hymne sur la Nativité</i> de St. Éphremhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/XQSWG8BNhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/XQSWG8BNhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/XQSWG8BNOrientalia Christiana Periodica77:22011351-398This article inaugurates two complementary studies on the redemptive aspect of divine revelation in Ephrem’s Hymns on the Nativity: God redeems us by revealing Himself. This first article presents a comprehensive analysis of Nat III, as an accurate entry to the entire collection. Complementary to this, a second article will present a comparative study of essential terms concerning ‘redemptive revelation’ in the whole collection on the Nativity.
The doxological third Hymn on the Nativity presents Christological paradoxes of the Incarnation by celebrating only two relations of Christ: to His Father and to us. Ephrem proceeds like a painter using an impressive imagery that does not need names like Jesus, Christ or Messiah. Nat III opens with a soteriological diptych (Nat III, 1-2), based entirely on our relation with the incarnate Logos, which to Ephrem is more existential than the Logos as such. His doxological theology is utterly aesthetic. This liturgical basis, rooted in ordinary life, is the appropriate fertile ground to rise towards the invisible God revealed in His visible Son and acclaimed in the impressive philosophical summit of the hymn (Nat III, 3-5). The next stanzas present a magnificent chain of soteriological images, hinting at the Gospels and without eschewing the Passion. For Ephrem, divine self-revelation gravitates around a ‘for us’ (<i>lan</i>). With each stanza containing a revelatory note, together they form one soteriological symphony.
Daelemans, Bert. “Dieu Sauve En Se Montrant. La Révélation Rédemptrice Dans La Troisième Hymne Sur La Nativité de St. Éphrem.” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 77:2 (2011): 351–98.
Bert Daelemans, Dieu Sauve En Se Montrant. La Révélation Rédemptrice Dans La Troisième Hymne Sur La Nativité de St. Éphrem,” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 77:2 (2011): 351–98.EphremHymns on NativityIV CEIV-VII CEhymnographypoetrysoteriology