Christology in early Christianity : collected essays / Brian E. Daley, SJ ; edited by Andrew Hofer, OP.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daley, Brian E., 1940- author.

Contributor:

Hofer, Andrew (Theologian), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Jesus Christ.

Physical Description:

vi, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2025.

Summary:

"A collection of essays on patristic Christology"-- Provided by publisher.

"Brian E. Daley, SJ, is a renowned and prolific historical theologian. His research has been published in a wide range of academic journals and edited collections; this volume brings several of his numerous studies of patristic Christology together for the first time. The sixteen essays in this collection explore the Christology of the early Church with attention to narrative overviews, the Cappadocians, Augustine, and Chalcedon with its legacies; consideration is also given to Christology within the contexts of early philosophical and apocalyptic traditions. This unique collection is an important resource for theological libraries and scholars interested in the early Church’s thinking about Christ." --Jacket

Contents:

Part 1: Christological surveys of the early Church. Christ and Christologies

Seeing God in the flesh: the range and implications of patristic Christology

"One thing and another": the Persons in God and the Person of Christ in patristic theology

The Word and His flesh: human weakness and the identity of Jesus in patristic Christology

Antioch and Alexandria: Christology as reflection on God's presence in history

Part 2: Cappadocian Christology and the Apollinarian challenge. Divine transcendence and human transformation: Gregory of Nyssa's anti-Apollinarian Christology

"Heavenly Man" and "Eternal Christ": Apollinarius and Gregory of Nyssa on the personal identity of the Savior

Part 3: Augustine's Christology. Word, soul, and flesh: Origen and Augustine on the Person of Christ

The giant's twin substances: Ambrose and the Christology of Augustine's Contra sermonem Arianorum

A humble mediator: the distinctive elements in Saint Augustine's Christology

Part 4: Christology after Chalcedon. Unpacking the Chalcedonian formula: from studied ambiguity to saving mystery

Apollo as a Chalcedonian: a new fragment of a controversial work from early sixth-century Constantinople

Leontius of Byzantium and the reception of the Chalcedonian definition

Nature and the "mode of union": late patristic models for the personal unity of Christ

Part 5: Christ in philosophical and apocalyptic traditions. Logos as reason and Logos incarnate: philosophy, theology, and the voices of tradition

"Faithful and true": early Christian apocalyptic and the Person of Christ.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-390) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780802883414

0802883419

OCLC:

1461832212

Publisher Number:

90102054857