"Christ in Christian Tradition" offers a presentation of faith in Jesus Christ as it developed from the birth of Christianity to the Council of Chalcedon in 451. Grillmeier traces the development of Christology, exploring in detail the first theological interpretations of the person of Christ. From the very beginning of Christianity, an intellectual struggle set in regarding the person of Christ, that is to be counted among the most profound of all human controversies. It is essential to understand this struggle if we are to understand how Christianity and mankind appropriated the mysterium Christi. And it is vital to explore the history of ancient Christology in order to fully understand our own perception of Christ. In this revised edition of his classic book, Grillmeier provides a comprehensive and vital account of the development of Christology in the early history of Christianity. He gives a new account of the theological development between Origen and the Council of Nicaea (325) and provides an extended account of the christology of Marcellus of Ancyra.
Grillmeier also explores, among other things, the history of the Logos-sarx christology, Didymus of Alexandria, Origenism and the christological development between Ephesus and Chalcedon. This definitive and monumental work offers students and scholars a authoritative account of early Christology.
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-0-567-04153-1 (9780567041531)
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Aloys Grillmeier (1910-1998) was a Jesuit priest and Emeritus Professor of Dogmatics and the History of Dogma at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule St Georgen, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was created Cardinal in 1994.
Author's Preface; Preface to Second Edition; Translator's Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART ONE: THE BIRTH OF CHRISTOLOGY; 1. Biblical Starting-Points for Patristic Christology; 2. First Growth: The Christology of the Second Century; 3. From Hippolytus to Origen: The Foundation of Christology as Speculative Theology and the Emergence of Hellenism; PART TWO: THE FIRST THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PERSON OF CHRIST - From Origen to Ephesus (431); Introduction: Towards Fourth-Century Christology. Section One: The 'One God' and his 'Logos', the 'Logos' and his 'Flesh' the 'Logos-Sarx' Christology; 1. Theological Twilight; 2. Arius and Arianism; 3. The Council of Nicaea (325) and its Interpretation of the Baptismal Kerygma; 4. From the Nicene Son and Logos to a Doctrine of the Incarnation; 5. Between Arianism and Apollinarianism; 6. Apollinarianism; Section Two: The 'Logos-Anthropos' Christology; 1. Earlier Anti-Apollinarianism and the 'Logos-Anthropos' Christology; 2. New Trends After Origen; 3. The Western Contribution; 4. The Eve of Ephesus; PART THREE: KERYGMA-THEOLOGY-DOGMA - Ephesus and Chalcedon (431-451); Introduction; Section One: The Scandalum Oecumenicum or Nestorius and the Council of Ephesus; Introduction: Ecclesiastical Kerygma, Theology and the Orthodoxy of Nestorius; 1. The Language and Thought of Nestorius at Ephesus; 2. The Nestorius Question and Rome; 3. Cyril of Alexandria, the Adversary of Nestorius; 4. The Council of Ephesus; Section Two: From Ephesus to Chalcedon; 1. The Reactions of the Antiochenes; 2. The Eve of Chalcedon; Section Three: The Council of Chalcedon; 1. The Dogmatic Formula of Chalcedon; 2. Chalcedon and the History of Theology; Epilogue: Chalcdeon - End or Beginning?; Appendix: The Nestorius Question in Modern Study; Bibliography; Indices.
