Christ in Christian tradition. Vol. 2, From the Council of Chalcedon (451) to Gregory the Great (590-604). Part. 2, The Church of Constantinople in the sixth century
Print Book, English, 1995
Mowbray ; Westminster John Knox Press, London, Louisville, KY, 1995
History
xxv, 565 pages ; 24 cm
9780264672618, 9780664219970, 9780664223021, 0264672615, 0664219977, 0664223028
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PART ONE.THE ANTI-CHALCEDONIAN POLE THE CHRISTOLOGY OF PATRIARCH SEVER US OF ANTIOCH/
Chapter One.The disputations polemicist/
Section 1.Severus and his adversaries/
1.The discussion with the supporters of Chalcedon and the reasons for it/
I.The Florilegium Cyrillianum and the Philalethes of Severus/
II.The emergence of the monk Nephalius and his fight aganist Severus/
III.The Apologia for the Synod of Chalcedon of John the Grammarian/
2.The controversies of Patriarch Severus within his own party/
I.The quarrel with Julian, bishop of Halicarnassus/
II.The controversy with Sergius the Grammarian/
Section 2.The Christological result of the polemics of Patriarch Severus/
1.The discussion with the Chalcedonian opponents and the Severan response/
I.The intent and the significance of the Florilegium Cyrillianum (FlorCyr)/
II.The Cyrillian christology of the Philalethes of Severus/
1.'Sacrilegious plunderer of the inspired words of Cyril'/
2.On the christology of the Philalethes of Severus/
a.Analogies for the unity in Jesus Christ/
i.The body-soul comparison/
ii.Burning thornbush (Ex 3,2-3) and glowing coal (Is 6,6-7)/
b.Direct, conceptually demarcated language/
The reaction of Severus of Antioch/
III.Severus of Antioch and the theology of mediation of neo-Chalcedonianism/
1.Nephalius : from monophysite to supporter of Chalcedon/
2.John of Caesarea, prebyter and grammarian/
a.Work on the concept/
i.A surprise attack by the Grammarian : the distinction between physis and ousia/
ii.The concept of enhypostaton/
b.A compromise for peace/
c.The Severan purification of christological language/
The custodian of faith/
i.Linguistic correction for the incarnation in fieri/
ii.Insufficient designations of the incarnation in facto esse/
2.From the discussion among the anti-Chalcedonians/
I.Julian of Halicarnassus and his interpretation of the earthly existence of Jesus Christ/
1.Cyrillian-Severan points of departure for Julian/
a.The 'glowing coal' (Is 6,6-7) and two different interpretations by Severus/
b.The wood of the Ark of the Covenant and the aphtharsia of Christ in the works of Julian/
2.The Apollinarian work Kata meros pistis as Julian's source/
Notable critique of authorities by Severus/
3.The teaching on aphtharsia of Julian of Halicarnassus as judged by Severus of Antioch/
a.Polarization between Julian and Severus/
i.Determination of norms for the relationship of the properties/
ii.The teaching of the properties of Christ's body in terms of content/
iii.Terminological clarification/
iv.The anthropological-protological framework of Julian's teaching on aphtharsia/
v.The free decision to suffer and to die/
b.A concluding consideration of the dispute between Severus and Julian/
i.A constructional error in the system/
ii.The understanding of the virginal birth of Jesus/
II.The essence and being of Christ conceptualized : the amateur theologian, Sergius the Grammarian/
1.A problem shared with Julian of Halicarnassus/
2.The zealot of the unity in Christ/
3.Incarnation as event in the realm of being/
4.One being
one property
one doxa/
Chapter Two.The preacher/
I.Classification and fundamental theological statement of the homilies/
II.'Mysteries of the life of Jesus' according to a kerygma of the mia physis/
III.The credo of the catechumens
the anti-Chalcedonian catechesis/
The one activity of the incarnate God-Logos/
Ousia
physis
hypostasis/
The Trishagion/
Chapter Three.Severus the dogmatician and his picture of Christ/
I.The role of the Patriarch Severus in the Chalcedonian-post-Chalcedonian process of understanding the mystery of Christ/
II.The Severan picture of Chrsit as an alternative to Chalcedon/
1.The fundamental orientation : a christology from above/
2.A Christology aimed at 'unity'/
a.Mia physis : the fundamental formula with its variants/
b.The mia energeia/
c.Knowledge and growth of Jesus/
Concluding reflection : The panorama of Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian christologies/
PART TWO.RETROSPECTIVE THEOLOGICAL CONSIDERATION OF CHALCEDON/
Chapter One.The person and work of Leontius/
Section 2.The christology of Leontius of Byzantium : his contribution to solving the Chalcedonian problem/
I.A short report on research/
1.Literary-historical identifications/
2.Biographical identifications/
3.On the method/
II.The christology of Leontius of Byzantium/
1.The Chalcedonian, anti-severan language of Leontius/
a.The 'subject of the incarnation'/
b.Distinction of hypostasis and physis/
c.Discoverer of the formal ratio of subsistence?/
d.The major objective of Leontius : the justification of the formula of the 'two natures'/
2.The interpretation of the 'unity' in Christ/
a.The depiction of the body-soul analogy/
b.The range of the body-soul analogy/
c.The manner of the union [actual symbol not reproducible]/
III.Leontius of Byzantium and the Chalcedonian picture of Christ/
1.The 'Aphthartodocetists' ('Aphthartics') of Leontius of Byzantium/
2.Jesus Christ in his aphtharsia/
3.Leontius' critique of the aphtharsia teaching and his own contrasting picture/
a.Fundamental objections and their evaluation/
b.Christ's impassibility in the tension between nature and supernature/
i.Fundamental considerations/
ii.Nature and supernature in the concrete life of Jesus/
iii.A test question for Leontius : the human will in Christ/
c.Passibility and mortality of Christ in the light of protology/
d.Christ's uncorruptedness
conception through the spirit
henosis/
Chapter Two.The expanded circle of strict-Chalcedonian theologians of the type of Leontius of Byzantium/
I.Hypatius, Archbishop of Ephesus (531-c.538)/
1.Biographical notes/
2.Hypatius of Ephesus as a christological author/
a.The sources/
b.The character of the collatio/
c.The goal of the doctrinal dialogue/
d.The course of the doctrinal dialogue/
i.The two-natures theme according to I/
ii.The two-natures theme according to H/
II.Heraclianus of Chalcedon/
1.Accents in the use of concepts/
2.Anthropology and christology/
III.The sleepless Monks of the Monastery of Eirenaion and the fabricated correspondence with Peter the Fuller/
1.The forged correspondence with Peter the Fuller/
2.Lex orandi
lex credendi : the conflict concerning the Trishagion hymn/
a.The historical findings/
b.On the conflict concerning the addition 'who was crucified for us'/
3.The teaching of the forged correspondence with Peter the Fuller/
a.In Trishagio crucem?
on the understanding of the Trishagion/
b.The christological position of the correspondence with Peter the Fuller/
IV.The monk Eustathius and his plea for the two natures/
1.The situating of the letter of Eustathius chronologically/
2.On the classification of the theological content of the letter/
3.Eustathius as defender of strict-Chalcedonian language/
a.The severan mia-physis formula in the interpretation of Eustathius/
b.Does Severus really speak of two natures?/
c.One or two activities in Christ?/
Chapter Three.Leontius of Jerusalem and his picture of Christ/
Section 1.On the person and work of Leontius of Jerusalem/
Classification both chronologically and in the history of ideas/
Section 2.The christology of Leontius of Jerusalem/
I.Analysis : The linguistic and conceptual tools/
1.A new consciousness of the problem/
a.Distinctions/
b.The determination of the subject in Christ/
c.A new concept of hypostasis?/
2.New language for the henosis/
a.[actual symbol not reproducible]/
b.[actual symbol not reproducible]/
c.[actual symbol not reproducible]/
d.The henosis as synthesis
Christos synthetos/
e.Expanded descriptions/
f.Verbal adjectives with the root [actual symbol not reproducible]/
g.some further word formations/
II.Synthesis/
1.The interpretation of the unity in Christ/
The Canon of Orthodoxy/
a.The ontology of the enhypostasis/
b.The union in Christ as synthesis/
c.Hellenistic and biblical interpretation of the incarnation/
2.Leonitus of Jerusalem's picture of Christ/
a.Christ is God, because sinless/
b.Christ and the creative power of God/
c.The miraculous in Leontius of Jerusalem's picture Of Christ/
d.The divinized kyriakos anthropos/
PART THREE.THE THEOLOGICAL ACTIONS UNDERTAKEN BY JUSTINIAN I (518-527 AND 527-565)/
Chapter One.'One of the Trinity was crucified'/
I.The prehistory to 518/519/
1.Origin/
2.Spread/
II.Justinian and his actions in the conflict over the formula Unus ex trinitate crucifixus/
1.The appearance of the Scythian monks in Constantinople/
2.The Scythian appeal to Rome and the stance of Justinian/
a.The appeal to the Pope/
b.Intervention of the senate and people of Rome/
c.A side-stage/
3.Latin neo-Chalcedonian christology in the Black Sea region between 512 and 533/
a.The Scythian monks and neo-Chalcedonianism/
b.The positive contribution of the Scythians to post-Chalcedonian christology/
III.The decision on the theopaschite question under Pope John II (533-535)/
Chapter Two.The struggle for the Severans and its theological outcome/
I.Justinian's individual actions in dealing with the anti-Chalcedonians (Severans)/
1.Measures for persecution/
2.The doctrinal dialogue of 532 in Constantinople/
3.The crisis of the Chalcedonian restoration in the East in the years 535/536/
a.Empress Theodora and the filling of vacant patriarchal thrones/
b.The Chalcedonian reaction/
4.The Synod of Constantinople 536 and its christological outcome/
a.The task and course of the Synod/
b.Judgement and christological result of the Synod/
II.Imperial dogmatic decrees on Severan christolog