Christ in Christian Tradition

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ISBN: 9780664223014 | 066422301X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/1/1975

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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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