Christ in Christian Tradition

by Grillmeier, Aloys; Hainthaler, Theresia; Dean, O. C.

• ISBN13: 9780664223007
• ISBN10: 0664223001
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

A monumental work in scope and content, Aloys Grillmeier'sChirst in the Christian Traditionoffers students and scholars a comprehensive exposition of Western writing on the history of doctrine. Volume Two covers the Council of Chalcedon (451) to Gregory the Great (590-604), with Part Four focusing on the Church of Alexandria.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vi
Abbreviations	p. xvii
A Christological Nile Expedition From the Delta to Lake Tana (451-639/642)	p. 1
Alexandrian-Greek Christology
The Christology of the Patriarchs
Timothy Aelurus: the foundation of Alexandrian-Greek Christology in the rejection of Chalcedon	p. 7
The secret patriarch of Alexandria	p. 9
A christological battle on two fronts	p. 16
On the truth of the incarnation of Christ	p. 18
The polemic against the 'Nestorianism' of Leo I's Tome to Flavian and of the Council of Chalcedon	p. 24
The different concept of nature	p. 25
A questionable argument for the divinity of the incarnate One	p. 26
The Christology of Timothy and its aporias	p. 27
Appeal to tradition	p. 27
The aporia of the mia-physis formula	p. 31
The struggle between Chalcedonians and Anti-Chalcedonians	p. 36
The peaceful Chalcedonian, Timothy 'Wobble-Cap'	p. 36
Peter Mongus, anti-Chalcedonian patriarch 'by Henoticon's grace'	p. 38
The successors of Peter Mongus	p. 40
Timothy IV (III), Patriarch of Alexandria at the time of the controversy between Julian and Severus	p. 42
Gaianus and the Gaianites	p. 45
On the doctrine of the Gaianites	p. 48
Theodosius, Patriarch of Alexandria, spiritual heir of Severus of Antioch	p. 53
Sollicitudo omnium Ecclesiarum	p. 53
'Causa multiplicis certaminis'	p. 54
The basic traits of Theodosian Christology	p. 55
His authorities	p. 55
His confession of faith	p. 56
His heresiology	p. 56
Connections with Severan terminology	p. 57
The one energeia	p. 58
The development of two hierarchies	p. 60
The Chalcedonian hierarchy: the Melkites	p. 60
The Melkite patriarchs of 538-580	p. 60
Eulogius, a neo-Chalcedonian theologian of mediation?	p. 65
The anti-Chalcedonian hierarchy: the Copts	p. 71
The Coptic hierarchy after 575	p. 71
Damian, head of the 'Monophysite' world	p. 75
Benjamin, Coptic patriarch and leader under Persian, Byzantine and Islamic rule	p. 81
Summary	p. 87
The Christology of the Scholars
The poet Nonnus of Panopolis and his fellow countrymen	p. 89
Cyrus of Panopolis	p. 90
Pamprepius	p. 91
Nonnus of Panopolis	p. 92
Preliminary questions	p. 92
The christological standpoint of Nonnus's paraphrase of John	p. 95
General characterization	p. 95
The christological statement of Nonnus's paraphrase of John	p. 96
Dioscorus of Aphrodito	p. 100
Two Alexandrian exegetes	p. 101
The presbyter Ammonius	p. 101
The deacon Olympiodore	p. 105
John Philoponus, philosopher and theologian in Alexandria	p. 107
The man and his work	p. 107
The Christology of John Philoponus	p. 112
The basic traits of Philoponian Christology in the polemic Tmemata	p. 113
The Diaetetes and its conceptuality	p. 118
The manner of the union	p. 120
The number 'two'	p. 123
On the intellectual division	p. 126
On the picture of Christ of John Philoponus	p. 127
The letter to Justinian	p. 130
John Philoponus and tritheism	p. 131
The anti-tritheistic initiative of Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople	p. 135
John Philoponus and his teaching on the resurrection	p. 138
The resurrection teaching of Patriarch Eutychius	p. 141
Final evaluation	p. 142
'Cosmas Indicopleustes'	p. 147
On the Christology of the Topographia Christiana	p. 151
A christological rereading of the Old Testament	p. 152
An optimistic anthropology	p. 153
The eschatological viewpoint	p. 154
A brief synthesis of the Christology of the Topographia Christiana	p. 155
The question of 'Nestorianism'	p. 155
The trinitarian-christological credo of Cosmas and its orthodoxy	p. 158
Cosmas and tradition	p. 161
The 'Province of Coptic Christology'
Shenoute as the founder of Coptic Christology	p. 167
A new source for Shenoute's Christology and for Coptic theology in general	p. 169
The Nag Hammadi tractates and the monastic movement in Upper Egypt (Thebaid)	p. 170
Special indications of Shenoute as the author of the new exhortation	p. 173
A call for help from Patriarch Dioscorus (444-451/454) to Shenoute	p. 174
Shenoute and Nestorius in Upper Egypt	p. 176
The Annals of Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria as background description	p. 179
Shenoute's exhortation as a mirror of the faith situation of the Coptic church between 431 and 451	p. 180
The spread of superstition	p. 181
The threat to the Nicene faith in God and Christ	p. 181
Angel Christology and the creatureliness of the Son	p. 182
The two seraphim of Is 6,2	p. 182
Injury to the Nicene and Nicene-Constantinopolitan faith	p. 183
The dispute over prayer to Jesus	p. 184
Shenoute as witness to prayer to Jesus	p. 187
Gnostic-Origenistic infiltration of 'apocryphal' origin	p. 189
Double creation	p. 190
'Large' and 'small' history	p. 193
The 'gospel of Jesus the Son of God, generated by the angels' (generazione degli angeli)	p. 193
The denial of the 'small history' of Jesus on earth	p. 194
The Pascha in heaven and on earth	p. 196
Human beings in this 'large' and 'small' history: Origenism	p. 197
Marcion or Mani?	p. 200
Christology and understanding of the Eucharist in dissolution	p. 203
Shenoute and Nestorius	p. 207
Shenoute's own report	p. 207
Shenoute's quotations from Nestorius	p. 208
Shenoute and Nestorius in legend	p. 212
Summary	p. 213
A second christological catechesis of Shenoute	p. 214
Sodalis Dei et Christi amicus. A closing report on Shenoute's Christology	p. 217
A biblical Christocentrism	p. 217
A salvation-economic theology of the one history of creation and salvation	p. 221
A kerygmatic theology	p. 221
A pre-Chalcedonian Christology in service to the patriarch Dioscorus	p. 222
Excursus: On the wider Coptic-christological context of Shenoute's exhortation	p. 223
Anthropomorphism against Origenism in the 'Life of Aphu'	p. 223
Coptic Origenists against anthropomorphism	p. 225
'Agathonicus' between Christian Gnostics and Patriarch Theophilus/Shenoute	p. 227
In the light and shadow of the master: Archimandrite Besa (d. after 474)	p. 229
On Christology in the liturgical prayer of the Coptic church	p. 235
The three leading anaphoras of the Egyptian liturgy	p. 237
The liturgy of Mark (Cyril)	p. 237
The liturgy of Basil	p. 238
The liturgy of Gregory	p. 239
The christological peculiarities of the three Egyptian eucharistic prayers	p. 240
The addressing of Christ in the Gregory anaphora and in the other eucharistic prayers	p. 240
Epiclesis	p. 247
Christological elements in some other Coptic anaphoras	p. 249
Christological peculiarities in the lectionaries	p. 250
The Book of Psalmody	p. 252
The Coptic synaxarion	p. 256
The 'Cross of Christ' Over Nubia
The silent 'eremite mission' in pre-Chalcedonian Nubia	p. 263
The 'official' evangelization of Nubia in the sixth century	p. 267
The missionary expedition of the priest Julian (542-548)	p. 267
The missionary expedition of Bishop Longinus (566-580)	p. 271
The mission of 569-575	p. 271
The evangelization of the Alodaeans	p. 272
The Chalcedonian mission in the Middle Kingdom	p. 273
The further history of Christian Nubia	p. 277
In search of Nubian faith in Christ	p. 279
The iconographic testimony	p. 280
The liturgical testimony	p. 285
Veneration of the cross in Nubia	p. 286
Christ in a New Messianic Kingdom Faith in Christ in Ethiopia
The introduction of Christianity	p. 295
The mission of the 'nine saints'	p. 302
Axum as the first Christian kingdom of non-Chalcedonian confession and its crusade into southern Arabia	p. 305
The new source situation	p. 308
The writings of Bishop Simeon of Beth-Arsam	p. 309
The Martyrium Arethae	p. 310
The events	p. 312
The Conference of Ramla (520/521)	p. 312
Actions of Bishop Simeon of Beth-Arsam	p. 316
The crusade of King Kaleb	p. 316
The confession of Christ of the martyrs of Himyar	p. 319
Christocentrism	p. 320
Yusuf's demand on the Christians	p. 321
The confession of the martyrs	p. 321
The religious-cultural background of Ethiopian Christian faith	p. 324
Jewish influences	p. 324
The Ethiopian church and its liturgical apparatus	p. 325
The liturgical cycle of feasts	p. 325
Circumcision and other observances	p. 327
The Jewish Targum in the Ethiopian Tergum	p. 328
The Falashas	p. 329
Cyrillian-Alexandrian influences	p. 332
Syrian influences	p. 334
Translations from Arabic	p. 334
Faith in Christ in the Ethiopian church	p. 336
Jewish and Jewish-Christian motifs in Ethiopian Christology	p. 337
Translatio Regni Messianici	p. 337
Jesus the 'anointed One'	p. 341
Patristic discussion: Qerellos -- Philoxenus of Mabbug	p. 341
The 'anointment' in the Ethiopian theology of the late Middle Ages and the modern period	p. 345
In the Mashafa Milad	p. 345
A church history text	p. 347
'The Mirror of Insight'	p. 348
A new phase in the dispute	p. 349
The conflict under King Yohannes	p. 353
The baptism of Jesus in the Jordan	p. 355
The baptism of Jesus in Ethiopian formulas of faith	p. 358
The baptism of Jesus in Ethiopian anaphoras	p. 360
Names and numbers	p. 362
The mysticism of the symbols	p. 365
Retrospective	p. 367
Limitations	p. 369
Jewish Christian -- and yet Christology from above	p. 369
Nearness to and distance from Judaism	p. 372
Relationship to universal church Christology, its terminology and systematic representation	p. 372
Negative	p. 373
Positive	p. 374
Ethiopia and the conceptual language of the universal church	p. 376
The position of Jesus in the worship and prayer of the Ethiopian church	p. 379
Christ in the structure of the church year	p. 379
The alleged Monophysitism of the Ethiopian anaphoras	p. 381
Chalcedonian-anti-Chalcedonian conceptual language in the liturgy?	p. 384
Christ in the priestly prayer of the hours	p. 387
An example of extra-liturgical prayer to Christ	p. 388
Final reflections	p. 389
Alexandria, the 'Christ-loving City'	p. 389
The Archimandrite Shenoute and his christological significance	p. 391
Nubia	p. 391
Ethiopia	p. 392
Selected Bibliography	p. 393
Indexes
Biblical references	p. 405
Words in ancient languages	p. 408
Ancient authors	p. 413
Modern authors	p. 419
Subjects	p. 425
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