Christology in Early Christianity: Collected Essays 9780802883414
A leading historical theologian surveys the early Church’s thinking about Christ Brian E. Daley, SJ, is a renowned and p
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Andrew Hofer, OP
Part 1: Christological Surveys of the Early Church
1. Christ and Christologies
2. Seeing God in Flesh: The Range and Implications of Patristic Christology
3. “One Thing and Another”: The Persons in God and the Person of Christ in Patristic Theology
4. The Word and His Flesh: Human Weakness and the Identity of Jesus in Patristic Christology
5. Antioch and Alexandria: Christology as Reflection on God’s Presence in History
Part 2: Cappadocian Christology and the Apollinarian Challenge
6. Divine Transcendence and Human Transformation: Gregory of Nyssa’s Anti-Apollinarian Christology
7. “Heavenly Man” and “Eternal Christ”: Apollinarius and Gregory of Nyssa on the Personal Identity of the Savior
Part 3: Augustine’s Christology
8. Word, Soul, and Flesh: Origen and Augustine on the Person of Christ
9. The Giant’s Twin Substances: Ambrose and the Christology of Augustine’s Contra sermonem Arianorum
10. A Humble Mediator: The Distinctive Elements in St. Augustine’s Christology
Part 4: Christology after Chalcedon
11. Unpacking the Chalcedonian Formula: From Studied Ambiguity to Saving Mystery
12. Apollo as a Chalcedonian: A New Fragment of a Controversial Work from Early Sixth-Century Constantinople
13. Leontius of Byzantium and the Reception of the Chalcedonian Definition
14. Nature and the “Mode of Union”: Late Patristic Models for the Personal Unity of Christ
Part 5: Christ in Philosophical and Apocalyptic Traditions
15. Logos as Reason and Logos Incarnate: Philosophy, Theology, and the Voices of Tradition
16. “Faithful and True”: Early Christian Apocalyptic and the Person of Christ
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Andrew Hofer, OP
Part 1: Christological Surveys of the Early Church
1. Christ and Christologies
2. Seeing God in Flesh: The Range and Implications of Patristic Christology
3. “One Thing and Another”: The Persons in God and the Person of Christ in Patristic Theology
4. The Word and His Flesh: Human Weakness and the Identity of Jesus in Patristic Christology
5. Antioch and Alexandria: Christology as Reflection on God’s Presence in History
Part 2: Cappadocian Christology and the Apollinarian Challenge
6. Divine Transcendence and Human Transformation: Gregory of Nyssa’s Anti-Apollinarian Christology
7. “Heavenly Man” and “Eternal Christ”: Apollinarius and Gregory of Nyssa on the Personal Identity of the Savior
Part 3: Augustine’s Christology
8. Word, Soul, and Flesh: Origen and Augustine on the Person of Christ
9. The Giant’s Twin Substances: Ambrose and the Christology of Augustine’s Contra sermonem Arianorum
10. A Humble Mediator: The Distinctive Elements in St. Augustine’s Christology
Part 4: Christology after Chalcedon
11. Unpacking the Chalcedonian Formula: From Studied Ambiguity to Saving Mystery
12. Apollo as a Chalcedonian: A New Fragment of a Controversial Work from Early Sixth-Century Constantinople
13. Leontius of Byzantium and the Reception of the Chalcedonian Definition
14. Nature and the “Mode of Union”: Late Patristic Models for the Personal Unity of Christ
Part 5: Christ in Philosophical and Apocalyptic Traditions
15. Logos as Reason and Logos Incarnate: Philosophy, Theology, and the Voices of Tradition
16. “Faithful and True”: Early Christian Apocalyptic and the Person of Christ
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
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