Author : Susan Wessel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199268460
Susan Wessel recounts the historical and cultural process by which Cyril of Alexandria was elevated to canonical status while his opponent, Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, was turned into a heretic. She argues that it was Cyril's mastery of rhetoric and politics alike which ensured his victory over his adversary.
Author : John A. McGuckin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004312900
St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy describes the turmoil of 5th century Christianity seeking to articulate its beliefs on the person of Christ. The policies of the Theodosian dynasty and the conflicting interests of the patriarchal sees are set as the context of the controversy between Nestorius of Constantinople and Cyril of Alexandria, a bitter dispute that racked the entire oecumene. The historical analysis expounds the arguments of both sides, particularly the Christology of Cyril which was adopted as a standard. Many major texts are presented in new translations, some of which have never before appeared in English. These writings are essential reading in the history of doctrine. The work will be an indispensable resource for all students of the period: theologians and Byzantinists.
Author : Susan Wessel
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191533270
What were the historical and cultural processes by which Cyril of Alexandria was elevated to canonical status while his opponent, Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, was made into a heretic? In contrast to previous scholarship, Susan Wessel concludes that Cyril's success in being elevated to orthodox status was not simply a political accomplishment based on political alliances he had fashioned as opportunity arose. Nor was it a dogmatic victory, based on the clarity and orthodoxy of Cyril's doctrinal claims. Instead, it was his strategy in identifying himself with the orthodoxy of the former bishop of Alexandria, Athanasius, in his victory over Arianism, in borrowing Athanasius' interpretive methods, and in skilfully using the tropes and figures of the second sophistic that made Cyril a saint in the Greek and Coptic Orthodox Churches.
Author : Saint Cyril (Patriarch of Alexandria)
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Incarnation
ISBN :
Author : Saint Cyril of Alexandria
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2010-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813211778
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Author : Hans Van Loon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004173226
The formula one incarnate nature of the Word of God has often been depicted as a summary of Cyril of Alexandria s (ca 378-444) christology. But no systematic study into his christological works has been published. Besides, there is no consensus regarding the meaning of the key terms and expressions in these works. This book addresses this deficiency by an integral investigation of the archbishop s christological writings during the first two years of the Nestorian controversy, and comes to the conclusion that his christology is basically dyophysite. This re-appraisal of his christology bears on the understanding of the Council of Chalcedon and on contemporary ecumenical relations, especially those between the Eastern Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox.
Author : Nestorius (Patriarch of Constantinople)
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Saint Cyril (Patriarch of Alexandria)
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780881411331
This text is one of the most important and yet approachable works produced by Cyril. It was written after the Council of Ephesus (431) to explain his doctrine to an international audience. Cyril argues for the single divine subjectivity of Christ, and describes how it encompasses a full and authentic humanity in Jesus - a human experience that is not overwhelmed by the divine presence, but fostered and enhanced by it. Christology becomes then, for St Cyril, a paradigm for the transfigured and redeemed life of the Christian. There is an introduction to the historical and theological background of the time, of the text and to St Cyril himself.
Author : Richard Alfred Norris
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780800614119
Bringing to a new generation a resource that has been used in theology & church history courses for more than 30 years, this volume features translations of the most important primary documents, introductions to the context of each text & new supplementary materials.
Author : George Bevan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Church history
ISBN : 9789042932593
The New Judas is a new account of the life of Nestorius (c. 386-451 CE), the Christological controversy that engulfed him, as well as the critical imperial interventions into ecclesiastical politics during the period from the First Council of Ephesus to the Council of Chalcedon. This work endeavours to use both Nestorius' own Liber Heraclidis, preserved only in Syriac, as well as the unprecedented abundance of primary documents in Greek and Latin from Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum, to answer a question of fundamental historical importance: How could the teaching of Christ's two natures, one so closely identified with Nestorius, deposed in 431, be vindicated in all its essentials at the Council of Chalcedon in twenty years later? The answer requires not only a reconsideration of the role of the supposedly timid emperor Theodosius II, but also a new understanding of the evolving position of Nestorius' chief opponent, Cyril of Alexandria.
