From Nicaea to Chalcedon

by Young, Frances M.

• ISBN13: 9780801039157
• ISBN10: 0801039150
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Baker Academic

Summary

In this volume, a world-renowned scholar of early Christianity updates and expands her classic survey of the writers and writings of the golden age of Greek patristic theology. This reliable guide to Christian literature from the late third century to the mid fifth century is more accessible than specialized works on individual authors but more informative than coverage provided by general histories and reference works. The second edition has been revised throughout for use by a new generation of students and scholars and includes a new chapter and updated bibliographies.

Author Biography

Frances M. Young (PhD, University of Cambridge) is the retired Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is the lead editor of The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature and the author of numerous books. Andrew Teal (PhD, University of Birmingham) is tutor in church history at Ripon College Cuddesdon and chaplain of Pembroke College of the University of Oxford, both in Oxford, England.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. ix
The Birth of Church History and its Sequel	p. 1
Eusebius of Caesarea	p. 1
Life	p. 1
The Ecclesiastical History and earlier historical writings	p. 3
Apologetic works	p. 8
Political writings	p. 14
Eusebius' Christology	p. 16
Eusebius as a biblical scholar	p. 21
Eusebius' Successors	p. 24
Socrates Scholasticus	p. 26
Philostorgius	p. 31
Sozomen	p. 33
Theodoret	p. 35
Conclusion	p. 39
Athanasius and the Shaping of Nicene Theology	p. 40
Introduction	p. 40
Arius	p. 42
Athanasius: The Legend and the Critique	p. 49
The Fundamentals of Athanasius' Theology: Contra Gentes - De Incarnatione	p. 52
Marcellus: Ally or Embarrassment?	p. 56
Orations against the Arians	p. 61
Self-Justification, Retrospective History and Shifting Theological Alliances	p. 65
Other Works	p. 69
Conclusion	p. 70
Heroes of the Faith: the Literature of the Desert	p. 73
Introduction	p. 73
Athanasius and the Life of Antony	p. 74
The Histories: the Lausiac History and the Historia Monachorum	p. 78
The Apophthegmata Patrum	p. 83
Origins, critical questions, historicity	p. 84
The world of the Apophthegmata	p. 87
Conclusion	p. 90
Didymus the Blind	p. 91
Didymus the teacher	p. 92
Literary works	p. 95
Contribution to doctrine	p. 98
Conclusion	p. 100
Evagrius Ponticus	p. 101
Life and influences	p. 102
Writings	p. 103
Interpreting Evagrius	p. 105
Imageless prayer	p. 113
The 'Macarian' Homilies	p. 116
Critical questions	p. 117
Ascetic teaching	p. 118
Conclusion	p. 127
Theodoret's Historia Religiosa	p. 128
The Cappadocians	p. 135
Biographical	p. 135
Withdrawal and Involvement	p. 143
Christianity and Contemporary Culture	p. 146
Basil and the Ascetic Movement	p. 152
The Dogmatic Debates	p. 156
Eunomius	p. 156
The Pneumatomachi	p. 159
Apollinarius	p. 161
Gregory the Theologian	p. 162
Gregory of Nyssa and Neoplatonic Mysticism	p. 165
Preachers and Teachers of the Church	p. 169
The Temper of the Times: Some Contrasting Characters of the Late Fourth Century	p. 173
Introduction	p. 173
Ephrem the Syrian	p. 174
Ephrem's place in this collection	p. 174
Life	p. 175
Writings	p. 177
Thinking through types and symbols	p. 179
Language and theology	p. 182
The confluence of traditions in Ephrem's distinctive voice	p. 184
Cyril of Jerusalem	p. 185
Epiphanius of Salamis	p. 194
The Ancoratus	p. 195
The Panarion	p. 196
Early life	p. 200
Other works	p. 201
The Origenist controversy	p. 202
John Chrysostom	p. 204
The Origenist controversy	p. 204
Chrysostom and Christian morals	p. 206
The goodness of God	p. 211
Chrysostom's Christology	p. 213
Sacramental doctrine	p. 214
Chrysostom's sermons and their hearers	p. 216
Nemesius of Emesa	p. 222
The identity of Nemesius	p. 222
The work's purpose	p. 224
A human being is a unity	p. 226
Ethical and theological implications	p. 229
Synesius of Cyrene	p. 232
The Literature of Christological Controversy	p. 241
Introduction: Eustathius	p. 241
Apollinarius and Diodore	p. 245
Apollinarius and the Alexandrian tradition	p. 245
Problems of interpretation	p. 247
The union of Christ	p. 251
Diodore of Tarsus	p. 254
Diodore's Christology	p. 255
Theodore of Mopsuestia	p. 261
Interpretation of scripture	p. 265
Christology	p. 269
A rounded view of Christianity	p. 271
Polemical Correspondence and a Pamphlet War	p. 275
The letters	p. 280
The Twelve Anathemas	p. 280
Nestorius	p. 288
The sources	p. 289
Nestorius' position in the controversy	p. 291
His own doctrinal position	p. 293
Cyril of Alexandria	p. 298
Cyril's reputation	p. 298
Earlier years	p. 300
Old Testament exegesis	p. 304
Doctrinal debate and a 'more dogmatic exegesis'	p. 308
The Nestorian controversy	p. 313
Cyril, Athanasius and Apollinarius	p. 315
Against Julian	p. 320
Theodoret of Cyrus	p. 322
Life	p. 322
His theological position	p. 327
The Expositio recta fidei	p. 331
The Eranistes	p. 333
Biblical exegesis	p. 338
Other works	p. 341
Bibliography	p. 344
Index of Subjects and Names	p. 387
Index of Modern Authors	p. 396
Select Index of Greek Words	p. 405
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