Private Creeds and their Troubled Authors
This article defends the disputed label private creeds as a useful one for describing a number of fourth-century texts. Offering such a confession was the normal method for clearing one's name on charges of heterodoxy in fourth-century Greek Christianity, though writing such a creed made the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
[2016]
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 465-490 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gregory of Nyssa 335-394
/ Basilius, Caesariensis 330-379
/ Confession of faith
/ Trinity
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBC Doctrine of God |
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| Summary: | This article defends the disputed label private creeds as a useful one for describing a number of fourth-century texts. Offering such a confession was the normal method for clearing one's name on charges of heterodoxy in fourth-century Greek Christianity, though writing such a creed made the author susceptible to charges of innovation. A number of letters on Trinitarian doctrine by Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa should be read in light of the tradition of private creeds. Indeed, the writings of Basil and Gregory provide unparalleled evidence for the roles such creeds played in Christian disputes of the fourth century. |
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| ISSN: | 1086-3184 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/earl.2016.0060 |