Grace and Christology in the Early Church

Zusatztext this is certainly an important work that warrants careful attention. Informationen zum Autor Donald Fairbairn is Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Missions at Erskine Theological Seminary, South Carolina Zusammenfassung Was there a genuine theological consensus about Christ in the early Church? Donald Fairbairn's persuasive study uses the concept of grace to clarify this question. There were two sharply divergent understandings of grace and christology. One understanding, characteristic of Theodore and Nestorius, saw grace as God's gift of co-operation to Christians and Christ as the uniquely graced man. The other understanding, characteristic of Cyril of Alexandria and John Cassian, saw grace as God the Word's personal descent to the human sphere so as to give himself to humanity. Dealing with, among others, John Chrysostom, John of Antioch, and Leo the Great, Fairbairn suggests that these two understandings were by no means equally represented in the fifth century: Cyril's view was in fact the consensus of the early Church.

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• Authors: Donald Fairbairn, Donald (Associate Professor of Historic Fairbairn, Donald (Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Missions at Erskine Theological Seminary Fairbairn, Fairbairn Donald
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2003
• EAN: 9780199256143
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925614-3
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies; Oxford Early Christian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, BCE to c 500 CE, The Early Church, BCE period – Protohistory