Demetrios Bathrellos

The Byzantine Christ

Person, Nature, and Will in the Christology of Saint Maximus the Confessor

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Produktbeschreibung

The Byzantine Christ enhances our understanding of Eastern Orthodox theology and of some of the reasons that still separate it both from Western Christianity and from the so-called Oriental Orthodox Churches.

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St Maximus the Confessor is one of the giants of Christian theology. His doctrine of two wills gave the final shape to ancient Christology and was ratified by the Sixth Ecumenical Council in AD 681. This study throws new light upon one of the most interesting periods of historical and systematic theology. Its focus is the seventh century, the century that saw the rapid expansion of Islam, and the Empire's failed attempt to retain many of its south-eastern provinces by inventing and promoting the heresy of Monothelitism (only one will in Christ) as a bridge between the Byzantine Church and the anti-Chalcedonian Churches which prevailed in some of these areas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 146mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780199258642
• ISBN-10: 0199258643
• Artikelnr.: 21801430

Autorenporträt

Demetrios Bathrellos is Priest in the Greek Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom, London.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* I. From the Fourth Century to Chalcedon and Beyond
* 1: Introduction
* 2: Apollinarism
* 3: Nestorianism
* 4: St Cyril of Alexandria
* 5: The Council of Chalcedon
* 6: The Anti-Chalcedonian Challenge
* 7: The Post-Chalcedonian Response
* 8: The Fifth Ecumenical Council
* 9: Conclusions
* II. The Monothelite Heresy of the Seventh Century
* 1: Introduction
* 2: Historical Outline
* 3: Reviewing the Literature
* 4: The Christology of the Monothelites of the Seventh Century
* 5: The Background of the Monothelite Heresy of the Seventh Century
* 6: Conclusions and Assessment
* III. The Dyothelite Christology of St Maximus the Confessor
* 1: Introduction
* 2: Person-Hypostasis, Nature-Essence, Unity and Distinction in the
Christology of St Maximus
* 3: The Notion of Will in St Maximus
* 4: St Maximus' Defence of Dyothelite Christology
* 5: The Particularity and Function of the Human Will of Jesus Christ
According to St Maximus
* IV. Further Issues Relating to St Maximus' Dyothelite Christology and
their Theological Significance
* 1: Introduction
* 2: Person or Nature? Leo, Maximus, and the Question of the Subject of
Willing
* 3: Concluding Remarks on St Maximus' Understanding of the Will and
its Theological Significance
* 4: St Maximus' Early Acceptance of `One Energy' and the Possibility
of a Legitimate Monothelite Terminology
* 5: Epilogue