Christology and metaphysics in the seventeenth century / Richard Cross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cross, Richard, 1964- author.

Series:

Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology.

Oxford scholarship online.

Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Person and offices--History of doctrines--17th century.

Jesus Christ.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Richard Cross explores the largely uncharted territory of seventeenth-century Christology, paying close attention to its metaphysical and semantic presuppositions and consequences. He shows that theologians of all stripes develop and expand theories that are associated respectively with the medieval theologians Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus.

Contents:

Cover

Christology and Metaphysics in the Seventeenth Century

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Contents

Abbreviations

Glossary of Technical Terms

Introduction: Two Theories of the Incarnation

PART 1. A HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK

1. Union Theories

1.1 Duns Scotus

1.2 Some Later Variations

1.2.1 Durand of St Pourçain

1.2.2 A Lutheran Alternative

2. Communion Theories

2.1 Thomas Aquinas

2.2 Two Fourteenth-Century Variations

2.2.1 Peter Auriol

2.2.2 Gregory of Rimini

2.3 Thomistic Christology in the Later Middle Ages: John Capreolus

2.4 Canonical Thomism: Cajetan

2.5 A Lutheran Alternative

2.5.1 The Communion of Natures: Brenz and Andreae

2.5.2 Lessons from Thomism

2.5.2.1 Andreae and Valencia

2.5.2.2 Gerlach and Buys

3. Modes, Distinctions, and Theories of Predication

3.1 The Rediscovery of Modes

3.1.1 A Mode Theory for Created Subsistence: Fonseca and Buys

3.1.2 A Mode Theory for Divine Subsistence: Ursinus and Zanchi

3.2 Identity and Distinction

3.2.1 Some Christological Applications

3.2.2 Varieties of Distinction

3.3 Theories of Predication

3.3.1 Two Medieval Theories

3.3.2 A Lutheran Alternative

3.4 The Enhypostasia-Anhypostasia Distinction

PART 2. UNION THEORIES IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CHRISTOLOGY

4. Union Theories in Catholic Theology (1): Jesuits and Scotists

4.1 Jesuits

4.1.1 Suárez

4.1.2 Later Modifications

4.2 Scotist

4.2.1 Rada

4.2.2 Mastri

5. Union Theories in Catholic Theology (2): Thomists

5.1 Cabrera

5.2 Dominicans

5.2.1 Araújo

5.2.2 Godoy

5.3 The Salmanticenses

5.4 Union and Actualization: Some Brief Comments

6. Union Theories in Reformed Theology

6.1 Varieties of Hypostatic Dependence

6.2 Subsistence and the Anhypostasia

6.3 Enhypostasia and the Communication of Subsistence.

6.3.1 Reductionism

6.3.2 Enhypostatic Subsistence Rejected

6.4 The Semantics of Personal Predications

PART 3. COMMUNION THEORIES IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CHRISTOLOGY

7. Communion Theories in Catholic Theology

7.1 Álvarez

7.2 Nazario

7.3 Poinsot (John of St Thomas)

7.4 Gonet

8. Communion Theories in Protestant Theology (1): Classical Christology

8.1 A Reformed Theologian: Polanus

8.2 Lutheran Theologians

8.2.1 Hutter

8.2.2 Calixt

9. Communion Theories in Protestant Theology (2): Homo Assumptus Christology

9.1 Brenzian Christology Extended

9.1.1 Hafenreffer

9.1.2 Meisner

9.2 The Classic Lutheran Theological System: Gerhard

9.3 The View from Tübingen

9.4 Later Modifications in High Lutheran Orthodoxy

9.4.1 Calov

9.4.2 Quenstedt

PART 4. THE COMMUNICATIO IDIOMATUM

10. The Genus Idiomaticum

10.1 Classical Semantics for the Communicatio

10.1.1 Catholic Semantics

10.1.2 Reformed Semantics

10.2 Lutheran Semantics for the Genus Idiomaticum

10.2.1 Some Shared Assumptions

10.2.2 Classical Christology: Hutter

10.2.3 Homo Assumptus Christology

10.2.3.1 Hafenreffer

10.2.3.2 Meisner

10.2.3.3 Gerhard

10.2.3.4 The View from Tübingen

10.2.3.5 Terminological Standardization

11. The Genus Maiestaticum (1): A Lutheran Extension

11.1 The Semantics of the Genus Maiestaticum

11.1.1 Meisner

11.1.2 Gerhard

11.2 Divine Activity and Christ's Human Nature

11.2.1 Points of Lutheran Consensus

11.2.2 Towards an Analysis

11.2.2.1 Hunn

11.2.2.2 Gerhard

11.2.2.3 Calov

11.2.2.4 The View from Tübingen

11.3 Hypostatic Union and Bodily Omnipresence

11.3.1 The Nature of Divine Omnipresence

11.3.1.1 The Theologians of Tübingen and Giessen

11.3.1.2 Gerhard

11.3.2 Varieties of Presence Relations.

11.3.2.1 The Theologians of Tübingen and Giessen

11.3.2.2 Gerhard

12. The Genus Maiestaticum (2): Ecumenical Ventures

12.1 Objections

12.2 Anglican Compromises

12.2.1 Richard Hooker

12.2.2 Joseph Hall

12.3 Leibniz's Christology in Context

Concluding Remarks

Appendix: Bellarmine's De Controversiis and Leibniz's De Persona: Some Textual Parallels

Bibliography

Manuscripts

Printed primary sources

Secondary sources

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 6, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Cross, Richard Christology and Metaphysics in the Seventeenth Century

ISBN:

0-19-266995-8

0-19-194684-2

0-19-266994-X