A Novel Use of the Body-Soul Comparison Emerges in Neochalcedonian Christology
Comparing the union of Christ's two natures to the body-soul union in a human being was a typical way among patristic authors to conceive the Incarnation. I argue that a novel use of the comparison emerged among Neochalcedonian theologians, esp. Leontius of Byzantium and Maximus Confessor. Thei...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Review of ecumenical studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 363-390 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages NBE Anthropology NBF Christology |
| Further subjects: | B
Nestorianism
B Maximus Confessor B Neochalcedonian Christology B Miaphysitism B Human Person B Anthropology B Leontius of Byzantium |
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| Summary: | Comparing the union of Christ's two natures to the body-soul union in a human being was a typical way among patristic authors to conceive the Incarnation. I argue that a novel use of the comparison emerged among Neochalcedonian theologians, esp. Leontius of Byzantium and Maximus Confessor. Their novelty lay in the concurrent refinement of the nature-hypostasis distinction required by Chalcedon. That refinement - particularly the shift from conceiving natures as self-subsistent to subsistent only in hypostases - opened unprecedented ways to make the anthropological comparison. Now there was a new, univocal tertium comparationis between Christ and the human being: in each case it's a hypostasis alone that makes two distinct natures really one. Neochalcedonian novelty supports the broader thesis that post-Chalcedonian Christology had profound impact on philosophy (cf. Johannes Zachhuber). In this case, Neochalcedonian Christology granted far greater insight into the fundamental mystery of the human person. |
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| ISSN: | 2359-8107 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of ecumenical studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2478/ress-2019-0027 |
