Christ in Christian Tradition,9780664223021

Christ in Christian Tradition

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ISBN13: 9780664223021
ISBN10: 0664223028
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-01-01
Publisher(s): Westminster John Knox Pr
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Summary

A monumental work in scope and content, Aloys Grillmeier'sChirst in the Christian Traditionoffers students and scholars a comprehensive exposition of Western writing on the history of doctrine. Volume Two covers the Council of Chalcedon (451) to Gregory the Great (590-604), with Part Two focusing on the Church of Constantinople in the sixth century.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Abbreviations xxi
Orbis Christologicus 451-604 1(4)
The Patriarchate Of Constantinople (500-600) 5(16)
PART ONE THE ANTI-CHALCEDONIAN POLE THE CHRISTOLOGY OF PATRIARCH SEVERUS OF ANTIOCH
The Disputatious polemicist
21(108)
Severus and his adversaries
21(7)
The discussion with the supporters of Chalcedon and the reasons for it
22(1)
The Florilegium Cyrillianum and the Philalethes of Severus
22(1)
The emergence of the monk Nephalius and his fight against Severus
23(1)
The Apologia for the Synod of Chalcedon of John the Grammarian
24(1)
The controversies of Patriarch Severus within his own party
25(1)
The quarrel with Julian, bishop of Halicarnassus
25(1)
The controversy with Sergius the Grammarian
26(2)
The christological result of the polemics of Patriarch Severus
28(101)
The discussion with the Chalcedonian opponents and the Severan response
28(1)
The intent and the significance of the Florilegium Cyrillianum (FlorCyr)
28(3)
The Cyrillian Christology of the Philalethes of Severus
31(1)
`Sacrilegious plunderer of the inspired words of Cyril'
31(2)
On the christology of the Philalethes of Severus
33(1)
Analogies for the unity in Jesus Christ
34(1)
The body-soul comparison
34(5)
Burning thornbush (Ex 3,2-3) and glowing coal (Is 6,6-7)
39(1)
Direct, conceptually demarcated language
40(5)
The reaction of Severus of Antioch
45(2)
Severus of Antioch and the theology of mediation of neo-Chalcedonianism
47(1)
Nephalius: from monophysite to supporter of Chalcedon
47(5)
John of Caesarea, presbyter and grammarian
52(1)
Work on the concept
53(1)
A surprise attack by the Grammarian: the distinction between physis and ousia
54(7)
The concept of enhypostaton
61(6)
A compromise for peace
67(5)
The Severan purification of christological language. The custodian of faith
72(1)
Linguistic correction for the incarnation in fieri
73(1)
Insufficient designations of the incarnation in facto esse
74(5)
From the discussion among the anti-Chalcedonians
79(1)
Julian of Halicarnassus and his interpretation of the earthly existence of Jesus Christ
79(3)
Cyrillian-Severan points of departure for Julian
82(1)
The `glowing coal' (Is 6,6-7) and two different interpretations by Severus
82(5)
The wood of the Ark of the Covenant and the aphtharsia of Christ in the works of Julian
87(2)
The Apollinarian work Kata meros pistis as Julian's source
89(2)
Notable critique of authorities by Severus
91(2)
The teaching on aphtharsia of Julian of Halicarnassus as judged by Severus of Antioch
93(1)
Polarization between Julian and Severus
93(2)
Determination of norms for the relationship of the properties
95(3)
The teaching of the properties of Christ's body in terms of content
98(2)
Terminological clarification
100(1)
The anthropological-protological framework of Julian's teaching on aphtharsia
101(3)
The free decision to suffer and to die
104(2)
A concluding consideration of the dispute between Severus and Julian
106(1)
A constructional error in the system
107(1)
The understanding of the virginal birth of Jesus
108(3)
The essence and being of Christ conceptualized: the amateur theologian, Sergius the Grammarian
111(1)
A problem shared with Julian of Halicarnassus
111(2)
The zealot of the unity in Christ
113(3)
Incarnation as event in the realm of being
116(5)
One being -- one property -- one doxa
121(8)
The preacher
129(19)
Classification and fundamental theological statement of the homilies
129(3)
`Mysteries of the life of Jesus' according to a kerygma of the mia physis
132(11)
The credo of the catechumens -- the anti-Chalcedonian catechesis
143(5)
The one activity of the incarnate God-Logos
145(1)
Ousia -- physis -- hypostasis
146(1)
The Trishagion
146(2)
Severus the dogmatician and his picture of Christ
148(33)
The role of the Patriarch Severus in the Chalcedonian-post-Chalcedonian process of understanding the mystery of Christ
150(2)
The Severan picture of Christ as an alternative to Chalcedon
152(29)
The fundamental orientation: a christology from above
152(1)
A christology aimed at `unity'
153(1)
Mia physis: the fundamental formula with its variants
153(9)
The mia energeia
162(9)
Knowledge and growth of Jesus
171(3)
Concluding reflection: The panorama of Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian christologies
174(7)
PART TWO RETROSPECTIVE THEOLOGICAL CONSIDERATION OF CHALCEDON
Leontius of Byzantium, the crown witness of Chalcedonian christology
181(49)
The person and work of Leontius
181(4)
The christology of Leontius of Byzantium His contribution to solving the Chalcedonian problem
185(45)
A short report on research
185(1)
Literary-historical identifications
185(1)
Biographical identifications
186(1)
On the method
186(1)
The christology of Leontius of Byzantium
186(1)
The Chalcedonian, anti-Severan language of Leontius
186(1)
The `subject of the incarnation'
187(2)
Distinction of hypostasis and physis
189(4)
Discoverer of the formal ratio of subsistence?
193(5)
The major objective of Leontius: the justification of the formula of the `two natures'
198(2)
The interpretation of the `unity' in Christ
200(1)
The depiction of the body-soul analogy
201(2)
The range of the body-soul analogy
203(2)
The manner of the union (δ τρoπoζ τνζ &epsis;vωσ&epsis;ωζ)
205(7)
Leontius of Byzantium and the Chalcedonian picture of Christ
212(1)
The `Aphthartodocetists' (`Aphthartics') of Leontius of Byzantium
213(1)
Jesus Christ in his aphtharsia
214(3)
Leontius' critique of the aphtharsia teaching and his own contrasting picture
217(1)
Fundamental objections and their evaluation
217(3)
Christ's impassibility in the tension between nature and supernature
220(1)
Fundamental considerations
220(1)
Nature and supernature in the concrete life of Jesus
221(1)
A test question for Leontius: the human will in Christ
222(4)
Passibility and mortality of Christ in the light of protology
226(1)
Christ's uncorruptedness -- conception through the Spirit -- henosis
227(3)
The expanded circle of strict-Chalcedonian theologians of the type of Leontius of Byzantium
230(41)
Hypatius, Archbishop of Ephesus (531-c.538)
230(18)
Biographical notes
230(1)
Hypatius of Ephesus as a christological author
231(1)
The sources
232(1)
The character of the collatio
233(1)
The goal of the doctrinal dialogue
234(1)
The course of the doctrinal dialogue
234(3)
The two--natures theme according to I
237(8)
The two-natures theme according to H
245(3)
Heraclianus of Chalcedon
248(4)
Accents in the use of concepts
250(1)
Anthropology and christology
251(1)
The Sleepless Monks of the Monastery of Eirenaion and the fabricated correspondence with Peter the Fuller
252(10)
The forged correspondence with Peter the Fuller
253(1)
Lex orandi -- lex credendi: the conflict concerning the Trishagion hymn
254(1)
The historical findings
254(2)
On the conflict concerning the addition `who was crucified for us'
256(3)
The teaching of the forged correspondence with Peter the Fuller
259(1)
In Trishagio crucem? -- on the understanding of the Trishagion
259(1)
The christological position of the correspondence with Peter the Fuller
260(2)
The monk Eustathius and his plea for the two natures
262(9)
The situating of the letter of Eustathius chronologically
263(2)
On the classification of the theological content of the letter
265(1)
Eustathius as defender of strict-Chalcedonian language
266(1)
The Severan mia-physis formula in the interpretation of Eustathius
267(1)
Does Severus really speak of two natures?
267(2)
One or two activities in Christ?
269(2)
Leontius of Jerusalem and his picture of Christ
271(46)
On the person and work of Leontius of Jerusalem
271(3)
Classification both chronologically and in the history of ideas
274(2)
The christology of Leontius of Jerusalem
276(41)
Analysis
276(1)
The linguistic and conceptual tools
276(1)
A new consciousness of the problem
276(1)
Distinctions
276(1)
The determination of the subject in Christ
277(3)
A new concept of hypostasis?
280(2)
New language for the henosis
282(1)
σuvuπoσταvαι
282(1)
&epsis;vuπoσταvαι
282(1)
πρoσωπoπoι&epsis;ιv
282(1)
The henosis as synthesis -- Christos synthetos
283(1)
Expanded descriptions
283(1)
Verbal adjectives with the root (vφ)ιστνμι(sigma;τατoζ)
283(3)
Some further word formations
286(1)
Synthesis
287(1)
The interpretation of the unity in Christ
288(1)
The Canon of Orthodoxy
288(1)
The ontology of the enhypostasis
289(5)
The union in Christ as synthesis
294(1)
Hellenistic and biblical interpretation of the incarnation
295(2)
Leontius of Jerusalem's picture of Christ
297(3)
Christ is God, because sinless
300(4)
Christ and the creative power of God
304(3)
The miraculous in Leontius of Jerusalem's picture of Christ
307(2)
The divinized kyriakos anthropos
309(8)
PART THREE THE THEOLOGICAL ACTIONS UNDERTAKEN BY JUSTINIAN I (518-527 and 527-565)
`One of the Trinity was crucified'
317(27)
The prehistory to 518/519
317(3)
Origin
317(1)
Spread
318(2)
Justinian and his actions in the conflict over the formula Unus ex trinitate crucifixus
320(18)
The appearance of the Scythian monks in Constantinople
320(2)
The Scythian appeal to Rome and the stance of Justinian
322(1)
The appeal to the Pope
322(3)
Intervention of the senate and people of Rome
325(1)
A side-stage
326(1)
Latin neo-Chalcedonian christology in the Black Sea region between 512 and 533
327(1)
The Scythian monks and neo-Chalcedonianism
328(5)
The positive contribution of the Scythians to post-Chalcedonian christology
333(5)
The decision on the theopaschite question under Pope John II (533-535)
338(6)
The struggle for the Severans and its theological outcome
344(41)
Justinian's individual actions in dealing with the anti-Chalcedonians (Severans)
344(11)
Measures for persecution
344(1)
The doctrinal dialogue of 532 in Constantinople
345(1)
The crisis of the Chalcedonian restoration in the East in the years 535/536
346(1)
Empress Theodora and the filling of vacant patriarchal thrones
347(2)
The Chalcedonian reaction
349(2)
The Synod of Constantinople 536 and its christological outcome
351(1)
The task and course of the Synod
351(2)
Judgement and christological result of the Synod
353(2)
Imperial dogmatic decrees on Severan christology
355(30)
The dogmatic letter to the Alexandrian monks
357(1)
On the mia-physis formula
357(1)
Mia physis synthetos
358(1)
Conceptual clarifications
359(2)
The dogmatic letter to Patriarch Zoilus of Alexandria (539/540)
361(1)
Excursus: On the question of Christ's knowledge in the sixth century
362(1)
The initiative of the deacon Themistius (c.536-540)
362(2)
The monk Theodore and his controversy with Themistius
364(2)
Anthimus and his interpretation of Christ's knowledge
366(2)
The one activity in Christ and the question of Christ's knowledge in Patriarch Theodosius
368(6)
Ps. Caesarius, Erotapokriseis and the idea of Christ's knowledge
374(5)
Christ's ignorance in Patriarch Eulogius of Alexandria (580-607)
379(2)
The attitude of De sectis
381(1)
Evaluation
381(1)
Justinian's letter to Zoilus
382(1)
Summary
383(2)
The twofold condemnation of the Origenists
385(26)
Emperor Justinian's decree against the Origenists from the year 543
385(17)
Origenists in Constantinople
386(1)
The anti-Origenists and the involvement of the Emperor in the new theological dispute
387(2)
The imperial decree of 543
389(1)
On interpretation or method
390(1)
Justinian's picture of the Origenist heresy
391(1)
Errors in the theologia
392(1)
Errors in the doctrines of creation and salvation (oikonomia)
392(8)
The assessment of Justinian's decree
400(1)
A contemporary witness. for the Origenist question of 543
401(1)
The new condemnation of the Origenists in connection with the Second Council of Constantinople (553)
402(9)
The sources
402(1)
The history of research
402(1)
The chronology
403(1)
The anti-Origenist canons of 553 in English translation
404(1)
The origin of the Origenist propositions condemned in 553
405(3)
The theological and ascetical significance of the condemnation of Origenism in 553
408(3)
The Three Chapters dispute (544-553)
411(52)
Prehistory
411(8)
Initiatives between 432 and 449 with several centres of action
412(1)
The centre of Edessa
412(1)
The centres of Alexandria and Constantinople
413(1)
The centre of Jerusalem
414(1)
The theatre of Armenia
415(1)
Further development
416(1)
A proposal of Emperor Justinian in 532
417(2)
Course and result
419(44)
`Revenge for Origen'
419(2)
The individual decrees of the Emperor in the question of the Three Chapters before the Fifth Ecumenical Council
421(1)
In damnationem trium capitulorum (CPG 6881)
421(1)
Justinian's letter against the Three Chapters (CPG 6882)
422(1)
The incrimination of the Three Chapters
422(2)
The condemnation of the Three Chapters no renunciation of Chalcedon
424(1)
Emperor Justinian's edict of 551 (CPG 6885)
425(3)
The distinction between hypostasis and physis also in the oikonomia
428(1)
The unhistorical basis for condemning the Three Chapters
429(1)
Excursus: On the concept `neo-Chalcedonianism'
429(5)
Neo-Chalcedonian terminology?
434(3)
Evaluation
437(1)
The Fifth Ecumenical Council of Constantinople (553) and its christological statement
438(1)
The task of the Council according to Justinian
439(4)
The christological statement of the Council
443(1)
Analysis: Chalcedonian christology in the dogmatic interpretation of the Council of 553
444(1)
The Sententia Synodica
444(2)
The christology of the canons of 553
446(6)
The condemnation of the Three Chapters in canons XII-XIV
452(1)
The conclusion of the Sententia Synodica
453(1)
Synthesis of the Council's christology
453(1)
The relationship of the Council to the definition of Chalcedon
454(3)
The `neo-Chalcedonianism' of 553
457(1)
Cyril's twelve anathemas in Constantinople II
457(1)
Other texts of Cyril and the canons of 553
458(3)
Concluding judgement on the Second Council of Constantinople (553)
461(2)
The final theological actions of Emperor Justinian
463(18)
The doctrinal dialogue with the Persian Church in 561
464(3)
`Heresy' or the Emperor's final initiative to restore unity of faith
467(14)
The state of research
467(1)
Evidence for an `aphthartic' action by Justinian
468(2)
Modern discussion about the Emperor's aphthartic activity
470(1)
P. Van den Ven (1965)
470(1)
F. Carcione (1984)
471(2)
Emperor and theologian: Concluding comments on Justinian I
473(8)
PART FOUR THE END OF THE JUSTINIANIC ERA AND AN APPRAISAL OF THE SIXTH CENTURY
The end of the Justinianic era
481(22)
Politico-religious actions under Justin II
481(9)
Efforts to secure unity for the Church
482(2)
The two `edicts' of Emperor Justin II
484(2)
The edict of 571
486(4)
Theological positions at the end of the sixth century
490(13)
The testimony of Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople
490(3)
The Chalcedonian Writing De sectis
493(5)
The body-soul analogy rejected
498(2)
The mia-physis formula
500(1)
The picture of Christ
500(3)
Apotelesma -- an appraisal of the sixth century
503(21)
The reflective christology of the sixth century in Byzantium
503(10)
The question of Christ's one hypostasis in the duality of the natures
505(1)
The question about the unity of the natures in Christ
505(1)
Christ's `one hypostasis', `one physis', in Apollinarius
506(1)
Corrections to the Apollinarian system
507(1)
The Chalcedonian way
507(3)
Christ's humanity in the Constantinopolitan christology of the sixth century
510(3)
Concrete christology: the mysteries of the life of Jesus in Romanos Melodos
513(11)
General characterization of the historical significance of Romanos
514(1)
Typical hymns
514(1)
The special character of his poetry
515(1)
The sources of Romanos
515(1)
The patristic sources
515(1)
Connections with Justinian's politico-religious actions
516(2)
The conciliar terminology and problematic in Romanos Melodos
518(1)
The concrete picture of Christ in Romanos Melodos
519(3)
Summary
522(2)
Select Bibliography 524(8)
Indexes for Volume Two, Part One 532(13)
Index of persons
532(11)
Ancient
532(5)
Modern
537(6)
Index of subjects
543(2)
Indexes for this volume 545
Index of biblical references
545
Index of Greek and Latin terms
547
Index of persons
551
Ancient
551
Modern
555
Index of subjects
560

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