A Blind Spot in the Study of Fourth-Century Christian Theology: The Christological Exegesis of Theophanies
The notion that christophanic exegesis is, essentially, a pre-Nicene tradition with little or no relevance for the study of later Christian literature is woefully inadequate: it minimizes the continued appeal to theophanies across much of the fourth-century theological spectrum, and does not account...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2018]
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 69, Issue: 2, Pages: 588-610 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ Theophany
/ Exegesis
/ Christology
/ History 300-400
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBC Doctrine of God NBF Christology |
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| Summary: | The notion that christophanic exegesis is, essentially, a pre-Nicene tradition with little or no relevance for the study of later Christian literature is woefully inadequate: it minimizes the continued appeal to theophanies across much of the fourth-century theological spectrum, and does not account for the pervasive and insistent references to theophanies in Byzantine hymnography. This article seeks to demonstrate that the christological exegesis of theophanies, widely recognized as an element of shared tradition, continued to function as a polemical 'adjuvant' in fourth-century anti-Jewish, anti-Arian, anti-modalistic, and anti-Apollinarian argumentation. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fly050 |