
- 416 pages
- English
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About this book
No period of history was more formative for the development of Christianity than the patristic age, when church leaders, monks, and laity established the standard features of Christianity as we know it today. Combining historical and theological analysis, Christopher Beeley presents a detailed and far-reaching account of how key theologians and church councils understood the most central element of their faith, the identity and significance of Jesus Christ.
Focusing particularly on the question of how Christ can be both human and divine and reassessing both officially orthodox and heretical figures, Beeley traces how an authoritative theological tradition was constructed. His book holds major implications for contemporary theology, church history, and ecumenical discussions, and it is bound to revolutionize the way in which patristic tradition is understood.
Christopher Beeley is Walter H. Gray Associate Professor of Anglican Studies and Patristics at Yale Divinity School. He is the author of Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and the Knowledge of God: In Your Light We Shall See Light, which won the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise. Beeley lives in New Haven, CT.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I. The Great Master
- 1. Origen of Alexandria
- Part II. Fourth-Century Authorities
- 2. Eusebius of Caesarea
- 3. Nicaea (325) and Athanasius of Alexandria
- 4. Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Constantinople (381)
- Part III. The Construction of Orthodoxy
- 5. Augustine and the West
- 6. Cyril, Leo, and Chalcedon (451)
- 7. Post-Chalcedonian Christology
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Scripture Index