Antioch 268 and Its Legacy in the Fourth-Century Theological Debates
The study proposes an analysis of the concepts of ousia and hypostasis in the theology of the Council of Antioch which condemned Paul of Samosata in 268 CE. The authentic reports preserved from the assembly unveil the fact that the synodals who condemned Paul of Samosata employed the two terms inter...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2018]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2018, Volume: 111, Issue: 2, Pages: 192-215 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Councils and synods (268 : Antiochia, Orontes)
/ Substance
/ Hypostasis (Philosophy)
/ Arianism
/ History 268-400
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KCC Councils NBC Doctrine of God NBF Christology |
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| Summary: | The study proposes an analysis of the concepts of ousia and hypostasis in the theology of the Council of Antioch which condemned Paul of Samosata in 268 CE. The authentic reports preserved from the assembly unveil the fact that the synodals who condemned Paul of Samosata employed the two terms interchangeably to denote the individual entity or person rather than the common essence or nature of the Father and Son. Additionally, they defended Christ's divinity before time and simultaneously assumed a certain subordinationism. The study additionally explores the Sitz im Leben of this theology, an accepted language embraced in the Eastern part of the Roman world in the third century. The article further traces the elements of this Antiochene theology in the fourth century in what was traditionally viewed as the Arian councils held in Antioch in 341 and 345 as well as in such authors as Eusebius of Caesarea and the Homoiousians. While Antioch 341 and 345 distanced themselves from Arianism, it is more coherent to interpret them, together with Eusebius and the Homoiousians, through this new hermeneutical lens, namely Antioch 268, rather than the traditional polarization between Nicaea and Arianism. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816018000056 |