Words, Imagery, and the Mystery of Christ

Words, Imagery, and the Mystery of Christ

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  • Author: Steven A. McKinion
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004313214
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

This volume deals with the christology of fifth-century pastor and theologian Cyril of Alexandria, particularly as it relates to Apollinarianism and Nestorianism. More specifically, it explores the use of a plethora of images to illustrate his understanding of the mystery of Christ. The book traces the background of his analogies in the philosophers and the Scriptures. Included are sections on Cyril’s understanding and use of the Scriptures, and the intended force of images in his theology. The final part is a re-reading of his christology through the lens of his christological imagery. Historians of Christian theology and dogma will find a unique look into the word pictures Cyril uses and the picture of Christ the reveal.


Reclaiming Participation

Reclaiming Participation

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  • Author: Cynthia Peters Anderson
  • Publisher: Fortress Press
  • ISBN: 1451489560
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

In an era that oscillates regularly between nihilism and the erosion of moral vision, on the one hand, and pseudo-gnostic myths of self-apotheosis on the other, the classical Christian claim of human participation in the divine as the story of the transformation of human life in its physical, moral, spiritual, and eschatological dimensions takes on radical, counter-cultural color. It is an affirmation that offers hope and meaning for humanity secured by God’s participation in human life through Jesus Christ. The Christological ground of this claim is crucial to secure and animate the argument of this text. The author performs, in this, a retrieval of the Christological vision of the unification of the divine and the human in the single subject of Jesus Christ as the programmatic center point of human transformation and participation, articulated particularly by Cyril of Alexandria. The patristic pattern is used as a lens through which to examine and assess modern iterations—those of Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar. In this, the author provides a critical updating of this vital classical theme, annotating a vision of divine life opened up for created participation that can foster hope in the climes of contemporary life.


Grace and Christology in the Early Church

Grace and Christology in the Early Church

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  • Author: Donald Fairbairn
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • ISBN: 0191531278
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

Was there a genuine theological consensus about Christ in the early Church? Donald Fairbairn's persuasive study uses the concept of grace to clarify this question. There were two sharply divergent understandings of grace and christology. One understanding, characteristic of Theodore and Nestorius, saw grace as God's gift of co-operation to Christians and Christ as the uniquely graced man. The other understanding, characteristic of Cyril of Alexandria and John Cassian, saw grace as God the Word's personal descent to the human sphere so as to give himself to humanity. Dealing with, among others, John Chrysostom, John of Antioch, and Leo the Great, Fairbairn suggests that these two understandings were by no means equally represented in the fifth century: Cyril's view was in fact the consensus of the early Church.


The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria

The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria

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  • Author: Daniel A. Keating
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
  • ISBN: 0199267138
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 326

Daniel A. Keating presents a comprehensive account of sanctification and divinization in Cyril. He argues that Cyril correlates the somatic and pneumatic means of our union with Christ, and integrates the ontological and ethical aspects of our sanctification and divinization.


Cyril of Alexandria's Trinitarian Theology of Scripture

Cyril of Alexandria's Trinitarian Theology of Scripture

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  • Author: Matthew R. Crawford
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • ISBN: 0191034134
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 400

More exegetical literature survives from the hand of Cyril of Alexandria than nearly any other Greek patristic author, yet this sizable body of work has scarcely received the degree of attention it deserves. In this work, Matthew R. Crawford reconstructs the intellectual context that gave rise to this literary output and highlights Cyril's Trinitarian theology, received as an inheritance from the fourth century, as the most important defining factor. Cyril's appropriation of pro-Nicene Trinitarianism is evident in both of his theology of revelation and his theology of exegesis, the two foci that comprise his doctrine of Scripture. Revelation, in his understanding, proceeds from the Father, through the Son, and in the Spirit, following the order of Trinitarian relations. Moreover, this pattern applies to the inspiration of Scripture as well, insofar as inspiration occurs when the Son indwells human authors by the Spirit and speaks the words of the Father. Although Cyril's interpretation of revelation may consequently be called 'Trinitarian', it is also resolutely Christological, since the divine and incarnate Son functions as the central content and mediator of all divine unveiling. Corresponding to this divine movement towards humanity in revelation is humanity's appropriation of divine life according to the reverse pattern—in the Spirit, through the Son, unto the Father. Applied to exegesis, this Trinitarian pattern implies that the Spirit directs the reader of Scripture to a Christological interpretation of the text, through which the believer beholds the incarnate Son, the exemplar of virtue and the perfect image of the Father, and accordingly advances in both virtue and knowledge. This process continues until the final eschatological vision when the types and riddles of Scripture will be done away with in light of the overwhelming clarity of the Christologically-mediated Trinitarian vision.


Answer to Rich. Smythe's preface

Answer to Rich. Smythe's preface

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  • Author: Thomas Cranmer
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Great Britain
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 588


Jesus Our Priest

Jesus Our Priest

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  • Author: Gerald O'Collins
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199576459
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

This present work examines what it means to call Christ our priest, in the light of the Scriptures and the Christian tradition. Beginning with a study of the biblical material, the book then moves to the witness to Christ's priesthood from the Church through its history.


Christ's Humanity in Current and Ancient Controversy: Fallen or Not?

Christ's Humanity in Current and Ancient Controversy: Fallen or Not?

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  • Author: E. Jerome Van Kuiken
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 0567675564
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 224

Was Christ's human nature fallen, even sinful? From the 18th century to the present, this view has become increasingly prominent in Reformed theological circles and beyond, despite vigorous opposition. Both sides on the issue see it as vital for understanding the nature of salvation. Each side's advocates appeal to or critique the Church Fathers. This book reviews the history and present state of the debate, then surveys the connections, distinctions, and patristic interpretations of five of the modern fallenness view's proponents (Edward Irving, Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, Colin Gunton, and Thomas Weinandy) and five of its opponents (Marcus Dods the Elder, A. B. Bruce, H. R. Mackintosh, Philip Hughes, and Donald Macleod). The book verifies the views of the ten most-cited Fathers: five Greek (Irenaeus, Athanasius, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory Nyssen, and Cyril of Alexandria) and five Latin (Tertullian, Hilary of Poitiers, Ambrose, Augustine, and Leo the Great). The study concludes by sketching the implications of its findings for the doctrines of the Immaculate Conception, sin, sanctification, and Scripture.


Getting to Know the Church Fathers

Getting to Know the Church Fathers

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  • Author: Bryan M. Litfin
  • Publisher: Brazos Press
  • ISBN: 1441200746
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

Augustine. Tertullian. Origen. For too many Christians such names are abstract, one-dimensional legends, innocuous voices from antiquity no longer relevant to modern needs and concerns. However, a closer look at these church fathers reveals writers whose reflections on the apostolic teachings edify all generations of believers. Bryan Liftin helps readers understand the fathers as individuals who cared deeply about preserving the core tenets of the Christian faith, and debunks misconceptions about their religious status and treatment of Scripture. An unveiling of these ten personalities demonstrates how much the fathers can teach us about the doctrines of our faith and the enduring community of which we are a part.


Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus

Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus

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  • Author: Andrew Hofer, O.P.
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199681945
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 283

This book examines how Gregory of Nazianzus, a fourth-century Greek writer famed as 'the Theologian' in the Christian tradition, expressed the mystery of Christ in terms of his own life. It studies Gregory's three genres of writing (orations, poems, and letters) and shows how Gregory developed an 'autobiographical Christology'.