On the Unity of Christ (12) (Popular Patristics Series) - Softcover

St. Cyril Of Alexandria; McGuckin, John A

 
9780881411331: On the Unity of Christ (12) (Popular Patristics Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0881411337 ISBN 13: 9780881411331
Verlag: SPCK Publishing, 2005

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Popular Patristics Series Volume 13


In the early fifth century the Christian world was racked by one of the fiercest theological disputes it had known since the Arian crisis of the previous century. The center of debate turned on the nature of the personhood of Christ, and how divine and human characteristics could combine in Jesus without rendering his subjectivity hopelessly divided, or without reducing his authentic humanness to an insubstantiality. These arguments soon polarized into a conflict between two great churches, Alexandria and Constantinople, and their powerful archbishops, St Cyril (d. 444) and Nestorius (d. ca. 452) respectively. Cyril is, arguably, the most important patristic theologian ever to deal with the issues of Christology. This work is one of his most important and approachable writings, composed in the aftermath of the Council of Ephesus (431) to explain his doctrine to an international audience. He argues for the single divine presence but fostered and enhanced by it. Christology then becomes a paradigm for the transfigured and redeemed life of the Christian.

This book is essential reading for all those interested in the theology and spirituality of the fathers, in the ancient church's use of scripture, and the way in which the church once creatively expressed its thinking through the media of philosophy and the natural sciences.

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About the Author: Fr John Anthony McGuckin, an Orthodox theologian, is Reader in Patristic and Byzantine Theology at the University of Leeds, England, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. His previous books include: St Symeon the New Theologian: Chapters and Discourses; The Transfiguration of Christ in Scripture and Tradition; Selected Poems of St Gregory Nazianzen; St Cyril of Alexandria and the Christological Controversy; and Byzantium and Other Poems.

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Verlag
SPCK Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0881411337
ISBN 13 
9780881411331
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
154
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