Will, Action and Freedom: Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century. By Cyril Hovorun
Cyril Hovorun rightly believes ‘that the issues of Christ's energeia and will … were among the most important challenges that Christology was ever to face’ and, as he writes in the introduction, the purpose of his book is to demonstrate the point. These issues were, as he writes later, the subj...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 1, Pages: 301-302 |
| Review of: | Will, action, and freedom (Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2008) (Wickham, L. R.)
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| Summary: | Cyril Hovorun rightly believes ‘that the issues of Christ's energeia and will … were among the most important challenges that Christology was ever to face’ and, as he writes in the introduction, the purpose of his book is to demonstrate the point. These issues were, as he writes later, the subject of two important councils (the Lateran, 649, and Constantinople III, 680/1); they produced outstanding theologians (I should prefer to say one outstanding theologian, Maximus) and contributed importantly to the philosophical understanding of Christ's human nature and so of human nature in general. His demonstration succeeds: this is a learned book, well researched with useful references (often to documentation available on the internet), and written in plain, if not absolutely perfect, English. |
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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/flp011 |