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This volume contains the proceedings of the Sixth International Maynooth Patristic Conference, which was held in conjunction with the AHRB Center for Byzantine Cultural History at the Institute of Byzantine Studies, the Queen's University of Belfast, in 2005. Contents include: Seeing Salvation: Methodological Preliminaries * St. Ambrose's Commentary on Psalm 118 * The Column-Mounted Cross c.450-750 * Irish High Crosses * Soter Theos: The Patristic and Byzantine Reappropriation of an Antique Idea * Incarnation and Salvation in Leontius of Byzantium * Development of the Sacred Symbol in Relation to Christology in the Thought of St. Maximus the Confessor * Barlaam of Calabria and Gregory Palamas on Knowledge and Ignorance * Observations on Prochoros Kydones' Writings and Translations of Some Works of Augustine * Salvation and the Liturgy: Some Examples from Early Christian Ireland * The Life of the Cross in St. Athanasius.