Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria

Zusatztext this important book is a model of how patristic studies should be conducted... it deserves a wide readership beyond the bounds of patristic specialists. Informationen zum Autor Daniel A. Keating is Assistant Professor of Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit Klappentext Cyril of Alexandria (d.444) was one of the architects of Christian orthodoxy. Daniel A. Keating presents a comprehensive account of Cyril's narrative of salvation. He offers a corrective to certain readings of Cyril and argues that Cyril presents a balanced picture of our union with Christ. The final chapter compares Cyril with Theodore of Mopsuestia, Augustine, and Leo the Great, in order to examine in brief the relationship between Eastern and Western accounts of salvation. Zusammenfassung Daniel A. Keating presents a comprehensive account of sanctification and divinization in Cyril. By establishing the importance of pneumatology in Cyril's narrative of salvation and by showing the requirement for an ethical aspect of divinization grounded in the example of Christ himself, this study brings a corrective to certain readings of Cyril that tend to exaggerate the 'somatic' or 'physicalistic' character of his understanding of divinization. Keating argues that Cyril correlates the somatic and pneumatic means of our union with Christ, and integrates impressively the ontological and ethical aspects of our sanctification and divinization. A final chapter compares these findings with Theodore of Mopsuestia, Augustine, and Leo the Great, in order to examine in brief the relationship between Eastern and Western accounts of salvation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The divine plan of salvation in Cyril 2: The gift of divine life 3: The reception of divine life 4: Partakers of the divine nature 5: Cyril's narrative of divine life 6: Cyril in comparison

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• Authors: Daniel Keating, Daniel A Keating, Daniel A. Keating, Daniel A. ( Keating, Daniel A. (Assistant Professor of Theolog Keating, Keating Daniel A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2004
• EAN: 9780199267132
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926713-2
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: Oxford Theological Monographs; Oxford Theological Monographs; Oxford Theology and Religion M
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, The Early Church, Biblical Studies & Exegesis