Lewis Ayres (Candler Sc Assistant Professor of Historical Theology

Nicaea and Its Legacy

An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology

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Produktbeschreibung

Lewis Ayres offers a new account of the most important century in the development of Christian belief after Christ. He shows how the doctrine of the Trinity was developed, and in particular argues that a conception of God's mysteriousness and spiritual progress towards understanding is central to that doctrine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 754g
• ISBN-13: 9780198755050
• ISBN-10: 0198755058
• Artikelnr.: 20812811

Autorenporträt

Lewis Ayres is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology, Candler School of Theology and the Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Towards a Controversy
1: Points of Departure
2: Theological Trajectories in the Early Fourth Century I
3: Theological Trajectories in the Early Fourth Century II
4: Confusion and Controversy: AD 325-340
5: The Creation of `Arianism': AD 340-350
II. The Emergence of Pro-Nicene Theology
6: Shaping the Alternatives: AD 350-360
7: The Beginnings of Rapprochement
8: Basil of Caesarea and the Development of Pro-Nicene Theology
9: The East from Valens to Theodosius
10: Victory and the Struggle for Definition
III. Understanding Pro-Nicene Theology
11: On the Contours of Mystery
12: `The First and Brightest Light'
13: `Walk Towards Him Shining'
14: `On Not Three Gods': Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology
15: The Grammar of Augustine's Trinitarian Theology
16: In Spite of Hegel, Fire and Sword
Epilogue: On Teaching the Fourth Century

Rezensionen

The author's extensive erudition and knowledge of primary and secondary sources...make his achievement almost as remarkable as his initial ambition... This approach to pro-Nicene theology offers some illuminating insights... I maintain my stance on the opposite bank, but am glad to be able to salute a book of such good scholarship and stimulus from the other bank. Maurice Wiles, The Journal of Theological Studies