The Interpretation Of Kenosis From Origen To Cyril Of Alexandria

Author : Michael C. Magree
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198896689
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Interpretation of Kenosis from Origen to Cyril of Alexandria written by Michael C. Magree and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The self-emptying of Christ, proclaimed in the letter to the Philippians 2:7, remains a much-debated topic in modern theology and exegesis. The Interpretation of Kenosis from Origen to Cyril of Alexandria brings the insights of Greek Christianity to the understanding of kenosis to illustrate that new dimensions of the topic open up when it is examined in the historical era of early Christianity. Origen of Alexandria showed that his understanding of kenosis allowed him to resist overly confining understandings of divine immutability, yet retain the conviction that the immutable Word's self-emptying calls the Christian believer to awe and wonder. Gregory of Nyssa found in kenosis a way to emphasize the Son of God's embrace of all of human life, including historical development. Cyril of Alexandria, finally, the term kenosis more than anyone else in Greek-speaking Christianity. It was a theme across all major eras and genres of his writing, from scriptural exegesis to doctrinal disputes, including those about the divinity of the Son and the natural union of the Son with human reality. Cyril found in kenosis an anchor point for two themes: first, that the strangeness and shocking quality of the term kenosis reminds the believer that God's categories always stretch beyond human "who emptied himself?" can only be answered by a single-subject Christology that proclaims the kenosis of the Word. This book opens and closes with chapters relating early Christian teaching on Christ's self-emptying to modern scripture scholarship and to concerns of feminist systematic theology.

Author : Michael C Magree
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198896662
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Interpretation of Kenosis from Origen to Cyril of Alexandria written by Michael C Magree and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The self-emptying of Christ, proclaimed in the letter to the Philippians 2:7, remains a much-debated topic in modern theology and exegesis. This book brings the insights of Greek Christianity to the understanding of kenosis to illustrate that new dimensions of the topic open up when it is examined in the historical era of early Christianity.

Author : Lars Koen
Publisher : ACTA Universitatis Upsaliensis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saving Passion written by Lars Koen and published by ACTA Universitatis Upsaliensis. This book was released on 1991 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul T. Nimmo
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467461008
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kenosis written by Paul T. Nimmo and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen distinguished scholars from the fields of biblical studies, historical theology, and systematic theology engage with the past and present significance of the doctrine of kenosis—Paul’s extraordinary claim in Philippians 2 that Jesus Christ emptied and humbled himself in obedience on his way to death upon the cross. In the “Christ-hymn” of Philippians 2, the apostle Paul makes a startling claim: that Jesus “emptied himself” in order to fulfill God’s will by dying on the cross. The self-emptying of Christ—theologically explored in the doctrine of kenosis—is a locus within Christology and factors significantly into understandings of the Trinity, anthropology, creation, providence, the church, and even ethics. As such, it has been debated and reflected upon for centuries. The present volume draws together some of the finest contemporary scholars from across the ecumenical spectrum to expound the doctrine of kenosis—its biblical roots, its historical elaborations, and its contemporary implications. With original essays from John Barclay, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, David Fergusson, Katherine Sonderegger, Thomas Joseph White, and more, this indispensable resource offers an extensive overview of this essential affirmation of Christian faith. Contributors: John M. G. Barclay, Matthew J. Aragon Bruce, David Fergusson, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Kevin W. Hector, Keith L. Johnson, Cambria Kaltwasser, Han-luen Kantzer Komline, Grant Macaskill, John A. McGuckin, Paul T. Nimmo, Georg Pfleiderer, Rinse H. Reeling Brouwer, Hanna Reichel, Christoph Schwöbel, Katherine Sonderegger, and Thomas Joseph White.

Author : Matthew R. Crawford
Publisher : Oxford Early Christian Studies
ISBN 13 : 0198722621
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyril of Alexandria's Trinitarian Theology of Scripture written by Matthew R. Crawford and published by Oxford Early Christian Studies. This book was released on 2014 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More exegetical literature survives from the hand of Cyril of Alexandria than nearly any other Greek patristic author, yet this sizable body of work has scarcely received the degree of attention it deserves. In this work, Matthew R. Crawford reconstructs the intellectual context that gave rise to this literary output and highlights Cyril's Trinitarian theology, received as an inheritance from the fourth century, as the most important defining factor. Cyril's appropriation of pro-Nicene Trinitarianism is evident in both of his theology of revelation and his theology of exegesis, the two foci that comprise his doctrine of Scripture. Revelation, in his understanding, proceeds from the Father, through the Son, and in the Spirit, following the order of Trinitarian relations. Moreover, this pattern applies to the inspiration of Scripture as well, insofar as inspiration occurs when the Son indwells human authors by the Spirit and speaks the words of the Father. Although Cyril's interpretation of revelation may consequently be called Trinitarian, it is also resolutely Christological, since the divine and incarnate Son functions as the central content and mediator of all divine unveiling. Corresponding to this divine movement towards humanity in revelation is humanity's appropriation of divine life according to the reverse pattern--in the Spirit, through the Son, unto the Father. Applied to exegesis, this Trinitarian pattern implies that the Spirit directs the reader of Scripture to a Christological interpretation of the text, through which the believer beholds the incarnate Son, the exemplar of virtue and the perfect image of the Father, and accordingly advances in both virtue and knowledge. This process continues until the final eschatological vision when the types and riddles of Scripture will be done away with in light of the overwhelming clarity of the Christologically-mediated Trinitarian vision.

Author : George Dion Dragas
Publisher : Orthodox Research Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780974561813
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Cyril of Alexandria's Teaching on the Priesthood written by George Dion Dragas and published by Orthodox Research Institute. This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Cyril of Alexandria offers us here the clearest Biblical understanding of the Orthodox Priesthood on the basis of a Christian exposition of the Old Testament Priesthood. The general principle that Christ did not come to destroy the Law, but to fulfill, holds true for the Priesthood of the Law as well. St. Cyril explains how the Priesthood of the Law is fulfilled and renewed in the Christian Priesthood. His exposition offers Orthodox clergy a profound explanation of what they stand for and highlights many aspects of their sacred ministry.

Author : Saint Cyril (Patriarch of Alexandria)
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415182508
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyril of Alexandria written by Saint Cyril (Patriarch of Alexandria) and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents key selections of Cyril's writings in order to make his thought accessible to students. The writings are all freshly translated and an extended introduction outlines Cyril's life and times.

Author : Thomas Weinandy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567603644
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theology of St. Cyril of Alexandria written by Thomas Weinandy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no book in English that treats the whole of Cyril's theological thought. In the past scholars have normally focused on Cyril's Christology and left largely unexamined the remainder of his theological thought. Thus the English-speaking scholarly community has never fully appreciated the breadth, the depth and the immense significance of Cyril's theology. This book is therefore unique. The editors have brought together many of the foremost experts on Cyril. This international team examines all the major facets of his theology, and here for the first time reveals the theology of Cyril of Alexandria as a magisterial whole.

Author : Saint Cyril (Patriarch of Alexandria)
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881411331
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Unity of Christ written by Saint Cyril (Patriarch of Alexandria) and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is one of the most important and yet approachable works produced by Cyril. It was written after the Council of Ephesus (431) to explain his doctrine to an international audience. Cyril argues for the single divine subjectivity of Christ, and describes how it encompasses a full and authentic humanity in Jesus - a human experience that is not overwhelmed by the divine presence, but fostered and enhanced by it. Christology becomes then, for St Cyril, a paradigm for the transfigured and redeemed life of the Christian. There is an introduction to the historical and theological background of the time, of the text and to St Cyril himself.

Author : Hans van Loon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904742669X
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dyophysite Christology of Cyril of Alexandria written by Hans van Loon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formula ‘one incarnate nature of the Word of God’ has often been depicted as a summary of Cyril of Alexandria’s (ca 378-444) christology. But no systematic study into his christological works has been published. Besides, there is no consensus regarding the meaning of the key terms and expressions in these works. This book addresses this deficiency by an integral investigation of the archbishop’s christological writings during the first two years of the Nestorian controversy, and comes to the conclusion that his christology is basically dyophysite. This re-appraisal of his christology bears on the understanding of the Council of Chalcedon and on contemporary ecumenical relations, especially those between the Eastern Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox.