Authors:Richard A. Norris, William G. Rusch,
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: thought, christian, sources, controversy, christological
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 1980-08-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0800614119
ISBN-13: 9780800614119

This book is a collection of texts designed to illustrate the development of Christian thought about the person of Christ in the patristic era. The earliest text translated comes from the latter half of the second century, when the ideas and problems which were to dominate Christological thought in this period were first crystallized. The latest is the well-known "Definition of the Faith" of the Council of Chalcedon, which generally has been accepted as defining the limits of Christological orthodoxy.

Author: John Anthony McGuckin
Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr
Keywords: theology, texts, history, controversy, alexandria, christological, cyril
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0881412597
ISBN-13: 9780881412598

St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy describes the turmoil of 5th century Christianity seeking to articulate its beliefs on the person of Christ. The policies of the Theodosian dynasty and the conflicting interests of the patriarchal sees are set as the context of the controversy between Nestorius of Constantinople and Cyril of Alexandria, a bitter dispute that racked the entire oecumene. The historical analysis expounds the arguments of both sides, particularly the Christology of Cyril which was adopted as a standard. Many major texts are presented in new translations, some

Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: text, new, testament, controversies, christological, corruption, scripture, effect, orthodox
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1996-02-29
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0195102797
ISBN-13: 9780195102796

The victors not only write the history, they also reproduce the texts. In a study that explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, Ehrman examines how early struggles between Christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the transmission of the documents over which, in part, the debates were waged. His thesis is that proto-orthodox scribes of the second and third centuries occasionally altered their sacred texts for polemical reasons--for example, to oppose adoptionists like the Ebionites, who claimed t

Author: St. Andrews Conference on the Historical Origins o
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: jesus, worship, supplements, journal, judaism, study, origins, historical, christological, roots, monotheism, papers, conference, andrews, jewish
Number of Pages: 373
Published: 1999-10
List price: $211.00
ISBN-10: 9004113614
ISBN-13: 9789004113619

The 18 essays of this work aim to demonstrate how the creation mythic of narratives, the revelatory power of mystical experiences, and the sociology of community formation capitalized on the Jewish meditoral tradition to encourage and legitimate the Christian praxis of Christ-devotion.