Grace And Christology In The Early Church

Author : Donald Fairbairn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191531279

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Grace and Christology in the Early Church by Donald Fairbairn Pdf

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.

Author : Donald Fairbairn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1132012436

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Grace and Christology in the Early Church by Donald Fairbairn Pdf

Author : Donald Fairbairn
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830878970

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Life in the Trinity by Donald Fairbairn Pdf

What can the early church contribute to theology today? Donald Fairbairn takes us back to the biblical roots and central convictions of the early church, showing us what we have tended to overlook, especially in our understanding of God as Trinity, the person of Christ and the nature of our salvation as sharing in the Son's relationship to the Father.

Author : Donald Fairbairn
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310097860

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The Global Church---The First Eight Centuries by Donald Fairbairn Pdf

Discover the Variety and Unity of the Early Church The Christian church of the early centuries spread throughout much of Asia, Africa, and Europe, spoke many languages, was situated within diverse cultural settings, and had varied worship practices; yet it maintained a vital unity on core teachings at the heart of the Christian faith. In The Global Church--The First Eight Centuries: From Pentecost through the Rise of Islam, author Donald Fairbairn helps readers understand both the variety and unity of the church in this pivotal era by: Re-centering the story of the church in its early centuries, paying greater attention to Africa, Turkey, and Syria, where most of the church's intellectual energy was nurtured Highlighting Christian communities outside the Roman Empire, as far afield as Persia and India, alongside those within it Identifying key events by their global, not merely Western, significance and taking into account early Christian interactions with other religions, particularly Islam The Global Church--The First Eight Centuries is an ideal introduction to the patristic era that broadens the narrative often recounted and places it more firmly in its varied cultural contexts. Students of the early church, formal and informal alike, will appreciate the fresh approach and depth of insight this book provides.

Author : David E. Wilhite
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441223517

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The Gospel according to Heretics by David E. Wilhite Pdf

Since what Christian doctrine denies can be as important as what it affirms, it is important to understand teachings about Jesus that the early church rejected. Historians now acknowledge that proponents of alternative teachings were not so much malicious malcontents as they were misguided or even misunderstood. Here a recognized expert in early Christian theology teaches orthodox Christology by explaining the false starts (heresies), making the history of theology relevant for today's church. This engaging introduction to the christological heresies is suitable for beginning students. In addition, pastors and laypeople will find it useful for apologetic purposes.

Author : Robert R. Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725280649

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A Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church Fathers by Robert R. Williams Pdf

The Christian Church has continually looked to its beginnings to discover new insights and new strength for the present. Today the interest in early Christianity and its leaders is as lively as it ever was. Those who know these early days never tire in calling today’s Church back to the Scriptures and the Spirit directed history of the Church. In this book, Dr. Williams has given the preacher, teacher, and concerned layman a very readable, concise, and helpful guide to the teachings of the early Church leaders. He communicates the exciting quality of Christian theology as it came to expression in the thought and life of men to whom the Christian Church today is greatly in debt, and from whom, with humility, it can continue to learn and find inspirations. The early Church Fathers were concerned, in the words of the Apostle Peter, to make a defense to anyone who called them to account for the hope that was in them. They were concerned, as the Church is today, to understand the faith for themselves and to explain it to those outside the Church. Their answers to the following problems are still relevant: the relationship of God to all the world, redemption, the Trinity, the person of Christ, the relationship between God’s will and man’s, and the problem of church and state. Today the Church still possesses the faith that overcomes the world and seeks to practice that faith in all of life. Twentieth century Christians can be strengthened in that possession and practice through an acquaintance with the teachings of the early Church Fathers. This book will guide them.

Author : Stuart George Hall
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802806295

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Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church by Stuart George Hall Pdf

There has long been a need for a succinct and up-to-date account of the major doctrines and practices of the early church. This book fulfills that need in clearly tracing the emergence of the distinctive elements of the Christian tradition.

Author : Thomas F. Torrance
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725208094

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The Doctrine of Grace in the Apostolic Fathers by Thomas F. Torrance Pdf

T.F. Torrance aims in this book to discover how and why there came about in the early history of the Christian Church the enormous difference that exists between the faith of the New Testament and that of the second and third centuries. He explores how the concept of grace is distinctively characteristic of every doctrine of the New Testament, and yet at the same time is the most sensitive to change.

Author : Frances Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107038370

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God's Presence by Frances Young Pdf

Explores how teachings of the church fathers can be applied today, despite the differences in our intellectual and ecclesial environments.

Author : Peter William Martens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015082759542

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In the Shadow of the Incarnation by Peter William Martens Pdf

"The essays in this volume, honoring the scholarship and teaching of Brian E. Daley, S. J., Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, explore the christological and trinitarian views of early Christian writers and theologians from the second through the seventh century. They include a study of the apocalyptic motifs and Christology in the second-century Letter to the Churches of Lyons and Vienne; of the Chalcedonian creed, viewed as a restatement of Christ's mystery and an expression of praise; and comparative analyses of the christological and trinitarian views of Athanasius, Hilary of Poiters, Gregory of Nazianzus, Eustathius of Antioch, Marcellus of Ancyra, Augustine, Origen, sixth-century theologians of the Theopaschite controversy, Cyril of Alexandria, and Maximus the Confessor. Running through the arguments of various essays is the theme, reflecting a strongly held conviction of Brian E. Daley, that patristic Christologies cannot be appreciated only in terms of conciliar debates and responses to theological and ontological problems, but must be interpreted in the largest possible context of concerns about Christian practice and discipleship, scriptural interpretation, martyrdom, salvation, the love between Christ and believers, and the ultimate mystery of the incarnation."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Richard Alfred Norris
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800614119

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The Christological Controversy by Richard Alfred Norris Pdf

Bringing to a new generation a resource that has been used in theology & church history courses for more than 30 years, this volume features translations of the most important primary documents, introductions to the context of each text & new supplementary materials.

Author : James L. Papandrea
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830899722

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The Earliest Christologies by James L. Papandrea Pdf

The second century was a religious and cultural crucible for early Christian Christology. Was Christ a man, temporarily inhabited by the divine? Was he a spirit, only apparently cloaked in flesh? Or was he the Logos, truly incarnate? Between varieties of adoptionism on the one hand and brands of Gnosticism on the other, the church's understanding took shape. In this clear and concise introduction, James Papandrea sets out five of the principal images of Christ that dominated belief and debate in the postapostolic age. While beliefs on the ground were likely more tangled and less defined than we can know, Papandrea helps us see how Logos Christology was forged as the beginning of the church's orthodox confession. This informative and clarifying study of early Christology provides a solid ground for students to begin to explore the early church and its Christologies.

Author : Alexander Y. Hwang
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813217932

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Tradition and the Rule of Faith in the Early Church by Alexander Y. Hwang Pdf

Tradition and the rule of faith are particularly apt themes for this collection of studies. The essays are written in honor of Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J., renowned American patristic scholar whose research and writings have focused on this particular theme.

Author : Paul M. Blowers,Peter W Martens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191028212

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation by Paul M. Blowers,Peter W Martens Pdf

The Bible was the essence of virtually every aspect of the life of the early churches. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation explores a wide array of themes related to the reception, canonization, interpretation, uses, and legacies of the Bible in early Christianity. Each section contains overviews and cutting-edge scholarship that expands understanding of the field. Part One examines the material text transmitted, translated, and invested with authority, and the very conceptualization of sacred Scripture as God's word for the church. Part Two looks at the culture and disciplines or science of interpretation in representative exegetical traditions. Part Three addresses the diverse literary and non-literary modes of interpretation, while Part Four canvasses the communal background and foreground of early Christian interpretation, where the Bible was paramount in shaping normative Christian identity. Part Five assesses the determinative role of the Bible in major developments and theological controversies in the life of the churches. Part Six returns to interpretation proper and samples how certain abiding motifs from within scriptural revelation were treated by major Christian expositors. The overall history of biblical interpretation has itself now become the subject of a growing scholarship and the final part skilfully examines how early Christian exegesis was retrieved and critically evaluated in later periods of church history. Taken together, the chapters provide nuanced paths of introduction for students and scholars from a wide spectrum of academic fields, including classics, biblical studies, the general history of interpretation, the social and cultural history of late ancient and early medieval Christianity, historical theology, and systematic and contextual theology. Readers will be oriented to the major resources for, and issues in, the critical study of early Christian biblical interpretation.

Author : Brian E. Daley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192521569

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God Visible by Brian E. Daley Pdf

God Visible: Patristic Christology Reconsidered considers the early development and reception of what is today the most widely professed Christian conception of Christ. The development of this doctrine admits of wide variations in expression, understanding, and interpretation that are as striking in authors of the first millennium as they are among modern writers. The seven early ecumenical councils and their dogmatic formulations were crucial facilitators in defining the shape of this study. Focusing primarily on the declaration of the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, Brian E. Daley argues that previous assessments that Christ was one Person in two natures - the Divine of the same substance as the Father and the human of the same substance as us - can sometimes be excessively narrow, even distorting our understanding of Christ's person. Daley urges us to look beyond the Chalcedonian formula alone, and to consider what some major Church Fathers - from Irenaeus to John Damascene - say about the person of Christ.