Christopher Beeley, The Unity of Christ
Professor Beeley has contributed a new chapter to the history of the doctrine of communicatio idiomatum. He has written a provocative book, whose argument is both revisionist and orthodox. Beeley proposes to revise the accepted christological narrative by questioning the significance and theological...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2015]
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 68, Issue: 3, Pages: 345-350 |
| Review of: | The unity of Christ (New Haven, Conn. : Yale Univ. Press, 2012) (Gavriljuk, Pavel L.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church fathers
/ Communication of idioms
/ Christology
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBF Christology |
| Further subjects: | B
communicatio idiomatum
B Book review B Gregory of Nyssa B Gregory of Nazianzus B Augustine of Hippo B Athanasius of Alexandria B Cyril of Alexandria |
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| Summary: | Professor Beeley has contributed a new chapter to the history of the doctrine of communicatio idiomatum. He has written a provocative book, whose argument is both revisionist and orthodox. Beeley proposes to revise the accepted christological narrative by questioning the significance and theological genius of Athanasius of Alexandria. In Beeley's judgement, Athanasius' contribution pales in comparison with such giants as Origen, Eusebius of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen and Maximus the Confessor. Beeley finds especially in Nazianzen's Christology the most profound and consistent rendering of the unity of Christ, a golden standard for expressing communicatio idiomatum. According to Beeley, Gregory's achievement was only partially matched by the Christologies of Cyril of Alexandria and Leo of Rome. Gregory's Christology is the apex of the Origenist tradition, its most complete and compelling expression. A permanent contribution of Beeley's work is the restoration of Gregory the Theologian to the diptychs of contemporary Western patristic scholarship, in which Nazianzen has been overshadowed by another Cappadocian, Gregory of Nyssa. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Response to Brian Daley and Paul Gavrilyuk on The Unity of Christ (2015)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930615000149 |