In defense of conciliar christology : a philosophical essay / Timothy Pawl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pawl, Timothy, author.

Series:

Oxford Studies In Analytic Theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Person and offices.

Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ--History of doctrines.

Councils and synods, Ecumenical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers a philosophical investigation into the systematic coherence of the Christology developed by the first seven Ecumenical Councils (from the First Council of Nicaea in ad 325 to the Second Council of Nicaea in ad 787).

Contents:

Cover; In Defense of Conciliar Christology: A Philosophical Essay; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Extended Table of Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Part I: Doctrine, Definitions, and Metaphysics; Chapter 1: The Content of Conciliar Christology; I. Introduction; II. Concerning the Person of Christ; III. Concerning the Divine Nature; IV. Concerning the Human Nature of Christ; V. Concerning the Manner of Union between the Natures; VI. Concerning the Predications True of Christ; VII. Conclusion; Chapter 2: Definitions and Necessary Conditions; I. Introduction

II. TerminologyII.a. Hypostasis and Person; II.b. Nature; II.b.1. Two Views of Natures: Abstract and Concrete; II.b.2. Nature Talk in the Conciliar Texts; II.b.3. The Historic and Contemporary Understandings of the Human Nature of Christ; II.c. The Terms used to Refer to the Person and Natures; III. The Necessary Conditions; IV. The Bare Bones Model; IV.a. The Concrete Natures of Material Substances; IV.b. The Ontological Conditions for Contingent Predications; IV.c. The Divine Nature; IV.d. The Relation between Truth and Reality; IV.e. The Hypostatic Union

IV.f. Fulfillment of the Necessary ConditionsV. Conclusion; Chapter 3: The Theory Enfleshed; I. Introduction; II. Hylomorphism; III. Truthmaking; III.a. Truthmakers for Essential Predications; III.b. Truthmakers for Accidental Predications; IV. Applied to the Incarnation; IV.a. The Model and Candidate Predicates; IV.b. The Model and the Communicatio Idiomatum; V. A Summary of the Model; VI. Objections to the Model; Objection 1: The Objection from Property Borrowing; Objection 2: The Objection from the Relation between Persons and Natures

Objection 3: The Objection from the Lack of a Truthmaker for Supposit TruthsObjection 4: The Objection from Essential Predications and the Possibility of Christś Human Nature not Being Assumed; VII. Conclusion; Part II: The Fundamental Problem; Chapter 4: The Fundamental Problem; I. Introduction; II. The Argument in Detail; II.a. The Argument in the Literature; II.b. Definitions of the Terms; II.c. The Argument in Deductive Form; III. Denying No Complementary Predications; III.a. A Plausible Inference; III.b. The Standard Definition of Complementarity

III.c. No Complementary Predications or No Contrary PredicationsIV. Some Unsatisfactory Responses; IV.a. Deny the Law of Non-Contradiction; IV.b. Deny that Candidate Predicates Have Complements; IV.c. Appeal to Mystery; V. The Shape of Things to Come; VI. Conclusion; Chapter 5: Denying the Predications; I. Introduction; II. The Response from Denying the Divine Candidate Predicates of Christ; II.a. An Example of the Response; II.b. The Response is not Generalizable; III. The Response from Denying the Human Candidate Predicates of Christ; III.a. An Example of the Response

III.b. The Response is not Generalizable

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-107848-4

0-19-182061-X

0-19-107847-6