Grace and Christology in the Early Church. By Donald Fairbairn. Pp. xviii + 257. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. isbn 0 19 925614 4. £45
The argument of this book is that there was a broadly based consensus in Christology in the fourth and fifth centuries, which is masked by the conventional division of the Eastern church into opposing Antiochene and Alexandrian schools. This is argued from a detailed analysis of Cyril of Alexandria...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 697-699 |
| Review of: | Grace and Christology in the early church (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2003) (Lane, Anthony N. S.)
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| Summary: | The argument of this book is that there was a broadly based consensus in Christology in the fourth and fifth centuries, which is masked by the conventional division of the Eastern church into opposing Antiochene and Alexandrian schools. This is argued from a detailed analysis of Cyril of Alexandria and John Cassian, following a brief examination of Theodore and Nestorius. If one looks at technical christological terminology, at how many of this or that (person, nature, etc.) were possessed by Jesus Christ, the consensus is not apparent. But underlying these differences there was the all but universal acceptance of the idea of the ‘double birth of the Logos’, that the Word is the one subject of the historical Jesus Christ. |
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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/fli189 |