Yale University Library Research Guides: Early Christianity and Patristics: Ignatius

Ignatius Studies

Ignatius and Concord by John-Paul Lotz evaluates the meaning and purpose of these letters on their own terms in an attempt to better understand the background and the exigencies that helped produce them. By evaluating how homonoia was used in a variety of contexts.
Learning Christ by Gregory Vall reevaluation of Ignatius as author and theologian, demonstrating that his seven authentic letters present a sophisticated and cohesive vision of the economy of redemption. Online available.
Ignatius of Antioch by Allen Brent an account of the circumstances and the cultural context in which Ignatius constructed what became the historic church order of Christendom. Online available.
To Each Their Own Letter: structure, themes, and rhetorical strategies in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch by Mikael Isacson underlines that each individual letter should be read as a specific act of communication between a sender and his recipients, and emphasizes that Ignatius wrote different letters to different addresses. Tools from text linguistic analysis (discourse analysis) and rhetorical criticism are employed.