- ISBN: 9780664223014 | 066422301X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/1/1975
A monumental work in scope and content, Aloys Grillmeier'sChirst in the Christian Traditionoffers students and scholars a comprehensive exposition of Western writing on the history of doctrine. Volume One covers the Apostolic Age to Chalcedon (451).
| Author's Preface | p. vii |
| Preface to Second Edition | p. ix |
| Translator's Preface | p. xi |
| Abbreviations | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xxiii |
| The Birth of Christology | |
| Biblical Starting-Points for Patristic Christology | p. 3 |
| The Present Situation | p. 3 |
| New Testament Outlines | p. 9 |
| The christology of the primitive community | p. 9 |
| The synoptists | p. 11 |
| Pauline christology | p. 15 |
| Pauline christological formulas | p. 17 |
| The 'Word made flesh' | p. 26 |
| First Growth: the Christology of the Second Century | p. 33 |
| Christological Variants | p. 37 |
| An archaic heritage: Christ and Jewish-Christian theology | p. 37 |
| A popular picture of Christ | p. 53 |
| Myth, legend and belief: the popular theology of the mysteries of the life of Jesus | p. 64 |
| Solvere Christum (1 John 4. 3): on the christological heresies of the second century | p. 76 |
| Martyrdom and apology | p. 84 |
| The Testimony of Pastors and Teachers of the Church from Clement of Rome to Irenaeus | p. 85 |
| Clement of Rome | p. 86 |
| Ignatius of Antioch | p. 86 |
| Justin, philosopher and martyr | p. 89 |
| Melito of Sardis | p. 94 |
| Irenaeus of Lyons | p. 98 |
| Conclusion | p. 104 |
| From Hippolytus to Origen: the Foundation of Christology as Speculative Theology and the Emergences of Hellenism | p. 106 |
| The Logos Doctrine of the Apologists | p. 108 |
| Hippolytus | p. 113 |
| Tertullian | p. 117 |
| Tertullian's christology in its historical context | p. 118 |
| Sermo in carne | p. 121 |
| Novatian | p. 131 |
| The Alexandrians | p. 133 |
| Clement of Alexandria | p. 133 |
| Origen | p. 138 |
| Conclusion | p. 148 |
| The First Theological Interpretations of the Person of Christ: From Origen to Ephesus (431) | |
| Introduction: Towards Fourth-Century Christology | p. 153 |
| The interpretation of the incarnation | p. 163 |
| The 'One God' and His 'Logos', the 'Logos' and His 'Flesh', the 'Logos-Sarx' Christology | |
| Theological Twilight | p. 167 |
| Eusebius of Caesarea | p. 167 |
| The Logos doctrine of Eusebius before Nicaea | p. 169 |
| The incarnate Logos | p. 177 |
| The historical influence of Eusebius | p. 185 |
| Sapiens Religio--Religiosa Sapientia: On the Christology of Lactantius | p. 190 |
| The historical and intellectual background | p. 190 |
| The one God and his Son | p. 193 |
| Lactantius and spirit christology | p. 198 |
| Lactantius as a binitarian | p. 200 |
| Lactantius as a subordinationist | p. 201 |
| The second birth of the Son of God | p. 202 |
| Asterius the Sophist | p. 206 |
| Aphrahat the Persian Sage | p. 214 |
| Arius and Arianism | p. 219 |
| The Father and his Logos | p. 219 |
| Gregory Thaumaturgus and Arius | p. 232 |
| The 'Logos' and his 'Flesh' | p. 238 |
| The Importance of Christology in the Arian System | p. 245 |
| The Council of Nicaea (325) and its Interpretation of the Baptismal Kerygma | p. 249 |
| Nicaea and the Rise of the Imperial Church | p. 250 |
| The Fides Nicaena | p. 264 |
| Nicaea and the understanding of the incarnation | p. 272 |
| From the Nicene Son and Logos to a Doctrine of the Incarnation | p. 274 |
| Marcellus of Ancyra | p. 274 |
| Eustathius of Antioch | p. 296 |
| The older tradition | p. 297 |
| Eustathius as opponent of the 'Logos-sarx' framework | p. 299 |
| Between Arianism and Apollinarianism | p. 302 |
| Introduction | p. 302 |
| Eusebius of Emesa | p. 303 |
| Athanasius | p. 308 |
| The problem | p. 308 |
| The activity of the Logos in Christ's humanity | p. 310 |
| The death of Christ as a separation of the Logos | p. 315 |
| The body as an instrument | p. 318 |
| The Tomus ad Antiochenos of 362 | p. 318 |
| Athanasius' christological formula | p. 326 |
| Apollinarianism | p. 329 |
| The 'Heavenly Man' | p. 330 |
| Mia Physis | p. 333 |
| The Concept of 'Person' | p. 337 |
| Retrospect | p. 341 |
| The 'Logos-Anthropos' Christology | |
| Introduction | p. 345 |
| Earlier Anti-Apollinarianism and the 'Logos-Anthropos' Christology | p. 349 |
| The Action of Epiphanius of Cyprus and of Pope Damasus | p. 349 |
| Diodore of Tarsus | p. 352 |
| New Trends After Origen | p. 361 |
| The Alexandrian Development of a Christological Psychology | p. 361 |
| Cappadocian Christology | p. 367 |
| Evagrius Ponticus | p. 377 |
| Origenist Christology in the West | p. 384 |
| Nemesius of Emesa | p. 389 |
| The Western Contribution | p. 392 |
| The Eve of Ephesus | p. 414 |
| The Younger Cyril and the 'Logos-sarx' Christology | p. 414 |
| The Antiochene Picture of Christ | p. 417 |
| John Chrysostom and his picture of Christ | p. 418 |
| Theodore of Mopsuestia and classical Antiochene christology | p. 421 |
| The critic of the 'Logos-sarx' framework | p. 426 |
| Christological thought | p. 428 |
| Christological formula | p. 437 |
| Kerygma--Theology--Dogma: Ephesus and Chalcedon (431-451) | |
| Introduction | p. 443 |
| The Scandalum Oecumenicum of Nestorius and the Council of Ephesus | |
| Introduction: Ecclesiastical Kerygma, Theology and the Orthodoxy of Nestorius | p. 447 |
| Nestorius and the Kerygma (or Dogma) of the Church | p. 447 |
| The Position of Historical Research | p. 449 |
| The Language and Thought of Nestorius at Ephesus | p. 451 |
| Defence | p. 451 |
| The Christ of the Patriarch Nestorius | p. 457 |
| The Nestorius Question and Rome | p. 464 |
| The Case of Leporius | p. 464 |
| The Case of Nestorius at Rome | p. 467 |
| Cyril of Alexandria, the Adversary of Nestorius | p. 473 |
| Cyril and Apollinarius | p. 473 |
| Ambiguous Language | p. 478 |
| Cyril and the Concept of Person | p. 480 |
| The Council of Ephesus | p. 484 |
| From Ephesus to Chalcedon | |
| The Reactions of the Antiochenes | p. 488 |
| Theodoret of Cyrus | p. 488 |
| Andrew of Samosata | p. 495 |
| Nestorius and his Liber Heraclidis | p. 501 |
| Theology of two natures | p. 504 |
| The christological formula of the Liber Heraclidis | p. 507 |
| Christological formula and thought | p. 510 |
| The Eve of Chalcedon | p. 520 |
| Proclus | p. 520 |
| The Trial of Eutyches and the Formula of Flavian of Constantinople | p. 523 |
| Leo the Great and his Tomus ad Flavianum | p. 526 |
| Leo's christological thought in the pre-Chalcedonian period | p. 530 |
| Christological formula | p. 537 |
| The Council of Chalcedon | |
| The Dogmatic Formula of Chalcedon | p. 543 |
| Chalcedon and the History of Theology | p. 551 |
| Epilogue: Chalcedon--End or Beginning? | p. 555 |
| The Nestorius Question in Modern Study | p. 559 |
| Bibliography | p. 569 |
| Index of Subjects | p. 581 |
| Index of Ancient Authors | p. 586 |
| Index of Biblical References | p. 590 |
| Index of Modern Scholars | p. 593 |
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