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On the unity of Christ
- Title
- On the unity of Christ / St. Cyril of Alexandria ; translated and with an introduction by John Anthony McGuckin.
- Author
- Cyril, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, approximately 370-444.
- Publication
- Crestwood, NY : St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BR65.C953 H6813 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McGuckin, John Anthony.
- Description
- 151 pages; 19 cm
- Summary
- In the early fifth century the Christian world was racked by one of the most fierce 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 in the conflict between two great churches, Alexandria and Constantinople, and their powerful archbishops, St Cyril (d. 444) and Nestorius (d.c. 452) respectively. Cyril is, arguably, the most important patristic theologian ever to deal with the issues of Christology. The text here translated 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 here 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. Accordingly, for St Cyril, Christology 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.
- Uniform Title
- Hoti heis ho Christos. English
- Alternative Title
- Hoti heis ho Christos.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-142) and index.
- ISBN
- 0881411337
- LCCN
- 95018709
- OCLC
- 58429105
- ocm58429105
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries