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Journal articles on the topic "Christological analysis"
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Biriukov, Dmitry. "Ancient Natural Philosophy in Byzantine Christology: The Issue of Penetration of Fire into Iron." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija, no. 6 (January 2020): 305–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2019.6.24.
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Introduction. The author shows how the Stoic principle of total blending of physical bodies finds its refraction in the Byzantine Christological teachings on the example of penetration of fire into iron. According to the Stoics, total blending occurs when one body accepts certain qualities of the other, however, remaining themselves, or both mixed bodies acquire qualities of each other preserving their natures. Analysis. The author asserts that Origen’s use of the example of iron incandesced by fire turned out to be paradigmatic for the subsequent Christian literature, and influenced the formation of two directions of using this example at once: in Christological context, as well as to describe deification of man. Further, the author addresses to Christological problematics and claims that using the incandesced iron example in Byzantium literature in properly Christological context began with Apollinarius of Laodicea. The paper also investigates the specificity of the refraction of this example in Christological perspective in (Ps.-) Basil of Caesarea, Theodoret of Cyrus, Cyril of Alexandria, Severus of Antioch, John of Damascus, and Corpus Leontianum. Results. In this context, the author pays special attention to the discrepancy between John Damascus and Leontius of Jerusalem regarding the issue of the complexity of Christ’s hypostasis. The researcher clarifies prerequisites of this discrepancy.
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Lessa do Espírito Santo, Magno. "Cristo como exemplo: uma análise do Hino Cristológico de Filipenses." Vox Scripturae Revista Teológica Internacional XXIII, no. 2 (October 2, 2015): 77–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.25188/flt-voxscript(eissn2447-7443)vxxiii.n2.p77-99.mles.
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Schiøler, Aage. "Det hele menneske og en kristologisk funderet forsynstanke: Om brugen af “Sjæl” og “Støv” i to grundtvigsalmer." Grundtvig-Studier 57, no. 1 (January 1, 2006): 15–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/grs.v57i1.16491.
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Det hele menneske og en kristologisk funderet forsynstanke: Om brugen af “Sjæl” og “Støv” i to grundtvigsalmer[The whole human being and a Christologically based belief in providence: On the use of “Soul” and “Dust” in two of Grundtvig’s hymns]By Aage SchiølerThe reading of two of Grundtvig’s hymns, one much used and one less known, uncovers the influence of Old Testament material on his ideas of basic human conditions and on the wording of Christological dynamics within his notions about Divine Providence. First, the use of “Soul” and “Dust” is briefly surveyed. Then the hymns are analysed in order to clarify the impact of the terms on Christology as the crucial element determining the subject-matter of his view on Divine Providence. The outcome of the analysis is that only through inclusion of the existence of the individual person into the destiny of Christ as our equal and brother in life, death and resurrection, the hard questions posed by human existence can be challenged by reference to a God characterized by omnipotence, omniscience, and supreme goodness.The omission of this Christological element, which in Grundtvig’s context is presented through the Preaching of the Gospel, granted the individual through Baptism, and continually maintained through The Lords Supper, would leave Divine Providence as idle talk or mere chance. Finally a modification of the concept of complementarity is used as a means to clarify the term Christian Hope as the liberating potentiality in Grundtvig’s ideas about Divine Providence.
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Sabau, Gelu. "Le modèle sotériologique et l’histoire de la doctrine valentinienne. Une évaluation critique de la thèse d’Einar Thomassen." Vigiliae Christianae 68, no. 2 (April 3, 2014): 119–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700720-12341161.
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Abstract This article is a critical evaluation of Einar Thomassen’s thesis, according to which the Valentinian doctrine evolves from the Eastern to the Western school. E. Thomassen starts his classfication from the classical separation of Valentinism in two schools – Eastern and Western – and he traces the evolution of the Valentinian doctrine, relying on the extant historical testimonies and also, on the inner logic of the Christological doctrine’s evolution from one spiritual nature of the Saviour to his double nature (spiritual and psychical). In this article I tried to question E. Thomassen’s thesis of the two christological and soteriological models, through a comparative analysis of direct and indirect sources. I tried to show that such a perspective over the Valentinian doctrine’s evolution is difficult to maintain if we are to abandon the heresiologists’ assumptions (specially those of Irenaeus of Lyon) on Valentinism.
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Parzych-Blakiewicz, Katarzyna. "Man in the “Splendour of Divinity.” The Hagiological Interpretation of “spousal love” in line with John Paul II’s Theology of the Body." Teologia w Polsce 14, no. 1 (September 25, 2020): 89–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/twp.2020.14.1.05.
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The article presents the theological interpretation of the phenomenon of spousal love in terms of examining its correlations with the call to holiness. This study belongs to the field of hagiological research aiming at developing a new concept that defines arguments in the Church’s strategy concerning the defence of every human life. The analysis concerns the statements and philosophical writings of Karol Wojtyła and then John Paul II on spousal love and the dependence of the person and his actions on the Truth and Good. The Christological-soteriological aspect of spousal love as conditioning the sanctification of the person has been indicated. The axiological conditions related to the Christological assumption have been termed as “the Splendour of Divinity,” identifying it with the space of the salvific influence on a person, sanctified by Christ’s spousal love and called to develop an ethos based on this love.
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Barclift, Philip L. "The Shifting Tones of Pope Leo the Great's Christological Vocabulary." Church History 66, no. 2 (June 1997): 221–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3170655.
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Over the past several decades Leonine studies have focused attention on Pope Leo the Great's Christology, noting the influence his Tomus ad Flavianum had at the Council of Chalcedon. In fact, because of this strong influence twentieth-century scholars have studied the Tome nearly exclusively in order to identify the heart of Leo's Christology. There can be no question, of course, that the Tome should be consulted in order to understand Leo's Christology, but it marks only one phase in the ongoing development of the ways he chose to express his christological insights. In part the Tome itself precipitated this development insofar as it opened up his Christology to scrutiny in the East. The tone of Leo's insights and the language he used to express them shifted and acquired greater precision over time in his letters and sermons in direct response to the dynamics of the christological controversy in the East, of which Leo's Tome made him a part. This development is most evident in three areas: his avoidance of the “Mother of God” title for the Virgin Mary after initially using it early in his pontificate; his use of the terms homo and humanus, which Leo learned to distinguish later in his pontificate; and his adoption of the Antiochene homo assumptus formula late in his pontificate to emphasize the fullness of Christ's human nature. These phenomena reflect the pope's careful attempt to distance himself from the rising tide of the Monophysite movement in the East, as he began to channel his traditional, Western Christology more through formulae used by Antiochene theologians. These phenomena can only be observed through careful, chronological analysis of the broader corpus of Pope Leo's works.
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Slotemaker, John T. "‘“Fuisse in Forma Hominis” belongs to Christ Alone’: John Calvin's trinitarian hermeneutics in hisLectures on Ezekiel." Scottish Journal of Theology 68, no. 4 (October 15, 2015): 421–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930615000228.
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AbstractThe present article examines John Calvin's trinitarian and christological interpretation of Old Testament theophanies in hisPraelectioneson Ezekiel 1. The first section of the article treats Calvin's exegetical principles. It is noted that Calvin defends a strict set of rules for how to interpret Old Testament theophanies: in short, Calvin argues that if a passage presents the divine nature in the form of a human person, that given theophany must be interpreted as a representation of the second person of the Trinity, the Son of God (i.e. Jesus Christ). In defending this position, Calvin examines in great detail various rules for how to interpret Old Testament passages which indicate a plurality within the divine nature (i.e. the Trinity). He defends his exegetical approach to these texts with numerous passages from the New Testament.This examination of Calvin's exegesis is contextualised in two ways. First, it is noted that Calvin's exegesis of these passages is uncharacteristically more ‘strict’ in its trinitarian and christological reading than one finds in earlier thinkers such as Augustine and Jerome. For example, Augustine argued that Old Testament theophanies which present God in the form of a human being could be understood as the Father, the Son or the Holy Spirit. Augustine, in short, does not think one can definitively determine which member of the Trinity is ‘present’ in a theophany. Second, it is noted that this surprising development in Calvin's final work is the result of the rising threat of anti-trinitarianism in Transylvania. Thus, the article argues that the rise of Polish anti-trinitarianism not only contributed to Calvin's renewed interest in trinitarian and christological interpretations of the Old Testament, but it also pushed him to develop a more strict set of exegetical rules which govern how such passages are interpreted.Therefore, the article presents a reading of Calvin which strongly suggests that any complete analysis of Calvin's alleged ‘Judaising’ must develop a historically nuanced methodology. While it is often argued that Calvin hesitates from interpreting Old Testament passages in a strictly trinitarian or christological way, it must be acknowledged that towards the end of his career he radically began to alter his exegetical rules/method given the renewed threat of the anti-trinitarians.
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Brown, Nicholas R. "Toward a Methodology and Public Discourse of Christological Concreteness: Lessons from a Discussion of Health Care Rationing in the United States." International Journal of Public Theology 6, no. 3 (2012): 347–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341239.
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Abstract A recent passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has once again sparked fierce public debates within the United States over the permissibility of health care rationing. Unfortunately only a handful of public theologians have addressed this issue, and those who have often fail to draw upon Jesus’ ethical praxis. This article corrects this lacuna by offering a clarifying theological analysis and defence of one form of rationing, known as Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER), through a proposed method of Christological concreteness. The article begins by outlining which CER provisions are included in the ACA, and then discusses how they will re-shape US public health expenditures in the future. An examination of Richard Land’s and Jim Wallis’s theological evaluations of rationing is used to demonstrate that, while each is helpful in some respects, both omit the moral saliency of Jesus. To correct these shortcomings, the article draws upon some recent methodological trends within Christian ethics and devises a Christological method based upon a synthesis of integrative, canonical, reiterative, embodied and incarnational variables. Finally, a critical analysis of Allen Verhey’s discussion of health care rationing explains why his approach not only provides a compelling justification for using CER but also a preferable approach for public theology.
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Essary, Kirk. "The radical humility of Christ in the sixteenth century: Erasmus and Calvin on Philippians 2:6–7." Scottish Journal of Theology 68, no. 4 (October 15, 2015): 398–420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930615000216.
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AbstractThe christological hymn in Philippians 2, rich as it is in theological potential, has always been a fruitful locus in the history of biblical interpretation for engaging in a number of doctrinal disputes which revolve around questions of the nature of Christ. Thus, an analysis of any chapter in the history of interpretation of the hymn (or at least parts of it) is necessary for understanding the ways in which Paul's text has informed christological discourse or, vice versa, how certain ways of thinking about Christology inform interpretations of the passage. In the sixteenth century, the hymn also serves as a jumping-off point for discussions of the authority of scripture in matters of doctrine, for whether Paul provides sufficient doctrinal fodder to ground an orthodox doctrine of the Trinity (particularly of the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son) will be brought into question, in particular, by Erasmus. Erasmus’ understanding of the passage, as it appears in his Annotations, was criticised by numerous Catholics, and the ensuing debate (especially between Erasmus and Lefèvre) is fairly well known. The response Erasmus (and the surrounding debate) elicits from John Calvin, however, has scarcely been mentioned and, to my knowledge, never been examined in depth – this, despite the fact that Calvin's engagement with Erasmus on Philippians 2:6–7 departs from his usual method of perspicua brevitas in commentary writing, and constitutes a significant digression on an array of christological and hermeneutical issues. These two verses, and their reception in the sixteenth century, provide a useful lens for analysing the christologies and the hermeneutical strategies of two biblical humanists who, perhaps, are not often enough considered alongside one another. A close reading of these two exegetes’ interpretations of Philippians 2:6–7 will be followed by a consideration of the significance of their emphasis on the radical humility of Christ, which emphasis serves as a departure from the bulk of the antecedent exegetical and theological tradition.
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Speidell, Todd Saliba. "The Incarnation as the Hermeneutical Criterion for Liberation and Reconciliation." Scottish Journal of Theology 40, no. 2 (May 1987): 249–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930600017555.
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The theology of liberation poses social, hermeneutical, and theological issues when it asks, ‘Who is Jesus Christ for us today?’ The social question of human and political liberation is a matter in which theology cannot remain indifferent, though theology qua theology is not simply social analysis. The hermeneutical question of the influence of social context and ideology on biblical interpretation casts suspicion on methodological naïvety, though theology qua theology is not simply epistemology. Without ceasing to confront the social and hermeneutical aspects of theologizing, liberation theology unavoidably poses the Christological question, ‘Who is Jesus Christ?’
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Christological analysis"
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Burcombe, Colin. "A comparative analysis of John Calvin's christological exegesis of Zechariah." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.705900.
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Although there has been a recent increase in research of the exegesis of the Reformer, John Calvin, few analyses have come from scholars in Biblical Studies and none has focused on Calvin's commentary on Zechariah. This thesis undertakes an original study of Calvin's exegesis of Zechariah, with a particular interest in his christological exegesis. This subject connects with a wider and growing interest in the Christ-centred interpretation of Scripture and the developing biblico-theological approach to Old Testament exegesis. First, 1 consider Calvin’s exegetical methodology (chapters 2-4). After identifying Calvin's christotelic understanding of Old Testament prophecy, his christological approach to angels, and his interpretation of messianic metaphors, the thesis turns to what was a central method for Calvin's christological Old Testament exegesis: typology. This leads into a discussion of how the New Testament use of Old Testament prophecy affects Calvin's interpretation of the Old Testament. The second main section (chapters 5-6), focuses on comparative analysis of Calvin’s exegesis. It begins with a patristic commentator with whom Calvin is often compared, Theodore of Mopsuestia. It determines that while he and Calvin have much in common, Calvin's exegesis is by comparison much more christological. The comparative analysis concludes with a study of the Old Testament exegesis of Martin Luther. While the scholarly consensus is that Luther is more christological than Calvin, the evidence of his Zechariah commentary does not support this. In the third and final section (chapter 7), the thesis concludes by drawing together the clear outcomes and some of the significant implications from the research and by suggesting areas for future study.
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Lehenbauer, Joel D. "The Christological and ecclesial pacifism of Stanley Hauerwas a Lutheran analysis and appraisal /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2004. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p020-0234.
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Rashid, A. "A translation and analysis of Abd al-Jabbar's critique of Trinitarian and Christological doctrines." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373363.
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FONSECA, ELILDES JUNIO MACHARETE. "THE CHRISTOLOGICAL CENTRICITY RESCUE AT SERVICES: A PRACTICAL THEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES IN RIO DE JANEIRO COASTAL CITIES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=25430@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
As igrejas batistas possuem características singulares, como o princípio da autonomia da igreja local. Cada congregação é uma unidade autônoma, ligada às demais pelo vínculo denominacional, através da Convenção Batista Brasileira, Convenções estaduais e Associações regionais. A autonomia da igreja local favorece a diversidade cúltica, pois cada igreja é livre para adotar o seu estilo. Embora seja um belo e essencial princípio batista, a autonomia favorece a pluralidade litúrgica, muitas vezes com a daninha influência de elementos que comprometem a centralidade cristológica no culto, como a liturgia neopentecostal, as literaturas de mercado e a ausência de reflexão teológica. O conhecimento da Teologia do Culto Cristão, mesmo em tradições diferentes, que até mesmo antecederam à tradição batista, é um caminho necessário para o resgate da centralidade cristológica no culto. Esse resgate das riquezas da tradição cúltica em diálogo com as igrejas batistas permitirá uma leitura justa e coerente da denominação batista, oferecendo respostas para os possíveis problemas de esvaziamento da centralidade cristológica no culto. Uma vez que o universo batista brasileiro, ou até mesmo fluminense, é muito amplo, para fins de análise da realidade litúrgica das igrejas batistas, com dados advindos de momento empírico na pesquisa, fez-se um corte geográfico na região litorânea fluminense, focando a pesquisa exclusivamente com as igrejas vinculadas à Associação Batista Litorânea Fluminense. A pesquisa, que alcançou membros de aproximadamente 90 por cento das referidas igrejas, além de pastores e seminaristas (estudantes de Teologia), revelou realidades que confirmam a necessidade da proposta de resgate da centralidade cristológica no culto, sendo fonte de pesquisa e reflexão para as igrejas batistas. Embora as igrejas batistas não adotem nenhum calendário ou manual litúrgico, mesmo diante do princípio de autonomia de cada congregação local, há uma fé batista , há uma tradição que perdura gerações. Seria um prejuízo às igrejas batistas e seus cultos virarem as costas ao assunto. O objetivo não é uniformizar o culto batista, até mesmo porque isso feriria frontalmente o jeito batista de ser . Pelo contrário, o objetivo é oferecer respostas, é dar subsídio para uma reflexão teológica consistente, capaz de fomentar valores imprescindíveis para o culto verdadeiramente cristológico e expurgar influências negativas.
Baptist churches hold unique characteristics, like the autonomy principle of local churches. Every single congregation is an autonomous unit, bound to the other ones by the denominational tie, through Brazilian Baptist Convention, state Conventions and regional Associations. The local church autonomy benefits the service diversity since each church is free to adopt its own style. Although it may be a beautiful and essencial Baptist principle, the autonomy favors liturgical plurality, often with harmful influence elements that puts into risk the christological centricity at services, like the neopentecostal liturgy, the gospel literatures available on the market and the lack of theological reflection. The knowledge of the Christian service theology, even in different traditions, including those ones that preceded the Baptist tradition, is a necessary way to rescue the christological centricity at services. This rescue of the service tradition wealth together with the Baptist churches will allow a fair and coherent reading of the Baptist denomination, offering aswers to the possibles problems of the emptying in the service christological centricity. Once the Brazilian Baptist universe, or even the Rio de Janeiro one, is very wide, with the purpose of analysing the liturgical reality of Baptist churches, with data resulted from an empirical moment in the research, it was made a geographical cut in the coastal region of Rio de Janeiro, focusing exclusively on the churches linked to the Baptist Association of Rio de Janeiro coastal cities. The research, that reached members of nearly 90 percent of those churches, besides pastors and seminarists (Theology students), revealed realities that confirm the necessity of the proposed rescue of the service christological centricity, becoming source of research and reflection to Baptist churches. Although Baptist churches do not adopt any calendar or liturgical manual, even in the face of the autonomy principle of each local congregation, there is a Baptist faith , there is a tradition that lasts generations. It would be a loss to Baptist churches and their services to ignore the matter. The objective is not to uniform the Baptist service, even because this would completely harm the way of being Baptist. On the contrary, the objective is to offer answers, to give support to a solid theological reflection, capable of fomenting essencial values to a true christological service and expurgate negative influences.
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McCosker, Philip James. "Parsing paradox, analysing 'And' : Christological configurations of theological paradox in some mystical theologies." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611443.
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Beránková, Jana. "Tajemství života Ježíše Krista v zamyšleních hostů a pracovníků Proglasu." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-328585.
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The mystery of Jesus Christ's life in reflections of guests and staff of Radio Proglas The thesis is written at the Department of Dogmatic and Fundamental Theology of Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague under the lead of prof. Ctirad V. Pospíšil, Th.D. The main source of author's research is the collection of 230 minutes of Radio Proglas programme called "Myšlenka na den" (The Thought of the Day). This collection is analyzed form the point of the view of Christology and soteriology. The second source is the theological literature, especially the prof. Ctirad V. Pospíšil's monography Jesus of Nazareth, Lord and Saviour, which is used as the theoretical base of the thesis. This theoretical base is illustrated by appropriate texts from the programme "Myšlenka na den". "Myšlenka na den" is the everyday programme: a reflection, where its author contemplates and comments the events of the civic and liturgical year. It is a personal reflection of people of Christian faith. The authors of "Myšlenka na den", guests and staff of Radio Proglas, are in 90 per cents of Roman Catholic confession. Among them are bishops, priests, laypersons with basic or higher theological education. Radio Proglas has the ecumenical dimension. Therefore the programme is also prepared - in appropriate proportion -...
Books on the topic "Christological analysis"
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Dimkpa, Anthony C. The self-consciousness of Jesus Christ: An analysis of its main christological trends. Enumclaw, WA: Pleasant Word, 2010.
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Zachhuber, Johannes. The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198859956.001.0001.
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It has rarely been recognized that the Christian writers of the first millennium pursued an ambitious and exciting philosophical project alongside their engagement in the doctrinal controversies of their age. This book offers for the first time a full analysis of this Patristic philosophy. It shows how it took its distinctive shape in the late fourth century and gives an account of its subsequent development until the time of John of Damascus. The book falls into three main parts. The first of them starts from an analysis of the philosophical project underlying the teaching of the Cappadocian fathers, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus. This philosophy, arguably the first distinctively Christian theory of being, soon becomes near-universally shared in Eastern Christianity. A few decades after the Cappadocians, all sides in the early Christological controversy take its fundamental tenets for granted. Its application to the Christological problem thus appeared inevitable. Yet it created substantial conceptual problems. Parts II and III of the book describe in detail how these problems led to a series of increasingly radical modifications of the Cappadocian philosophy. The chapters of Part II are dedicated to the miaphysite opponents of the Council of Chalcedon, while Part III discusses the defenders of the Council from the early sixth to the eighth centuries. Through this overview, the book reveals this period as one of remarkable philosophical creativity, fecundity, and innovation.
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Omerzu, Heike. ‘My Power, Power, You Have Left Me’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814801.003.0009.
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The christology of the Gospel of Peter has been debated ever since the so-called Akhmîm document (PCairo 10759) was discovered in 1886–7. This fragment contains an account of Jesus’ passion and resurrection partly paralleled in the canonical gospels, and it can most likely be identified with the gospel that Serapion, bishop of Antioch, encountered in Rhossus around 200 CE. This essay reconsiders the supposed ‘docetism’ of this text by analysing representations of Jesus’ death on either side of the canonical divide. The starting point is a narrative and intertextual analysis of key features of the Gospel of Peter, including indirect characterization by the use of christological titles, Jesus’ silence during the crucifixion ‘as if he felt no pain’, and his last words at the cross, ‘My power, power, you have forsaken me!’ These features are compared to the canonical gospels and other early Christian traditions on Jesus’ death.
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Brooke, Alice. The autos sacramentales of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816829.001.0001.
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This study analyses the autos sacramentales, or Eucharistic plays, by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–95). It focusses on their relationship to the changing currents of philosophical thought in the late-seventeenth century Hispanic world, from a mindset characterized by scepticism, Neostoicism, and suspicion of the material world as a source of truth, to an empirical approach to the natural world that understood the information received by the senses as a fallible, yet useful, provisional source of knowledge. By examining each play in turn, along with the introductory loa with which they were intended to be performed, the study explores how each drama seeks to integrate empirical ideas with a Catholic understanding of transubstantiation. At the same time, each individual study identifies new sources for these plays, and demonstrates how these illuminate, or nuance, present readings of the works. The study of El divino Narciso employs a previously little-known source to illuminate its Christological readings, as well as Sor Juana’s engagement with notions of wit and conceptism. The analysis of El cetro de José explores her presentation of different approaches to perception to emphasize the importance of both the material and the transcendent in understanding the sacraments. The final section, on San Hermenegildo, explores the influence of the Christianized stoicism of Justus Lipsius, and demonstrates how Sor Juana used this work to attempt her most ambitious reconciliation of an empirical approach to the material world with a Neostoic approach to Christian morality and orthodox Catholic sacramental theology.
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Pak, G. Sujin. The Reformation of Prophecy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190866921.001.0001.
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The Reformation of Prophecy presents and supports the case for viewing the prophet and biblical prophecy as a powerful lens by which to illuminate many aspects of the reforming work of the Protestant reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It provides a chronological and developmental analysis of the significance of the prophet and biblical prophecy across leading Protestant reformers in articulating a theology of the priesthood of all believers, a biblical model of the pastoral office, a biblical vision of the reform of worship, and biblical processes for discerning right interpretation of Scripture. Through the tool of the prophet and biblical prophecy, the reformers framed their work under, within, and in support of the authority of Scripture—for the true prophet speaks the Word of God alone and calls the people, their worship and their beliefs and practices, back to the Word of God. The book also demonstrates how interpretations and understandings of the prophet and biblical prophecy contributed to the formation and consolidation of distinctive confessional identities, especially around differences in their visions of sacred history, Christological exegesis of Old Testament prophecy, and interpretation of Old Testament metaphors. This book illuminates the significant shifts in the history of Protestant reformers’ engagement with the prophet and biblical prophecy—shifts from these serving as a tool to advance the priesthood of all believers to a tool to clarify and buttress clerical identity and authority to a site of polemical-confessional exchange concerning right interpretations of Scripture.
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Austin, Michael W. Humility and Human Flourishing. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830221.001.0001.
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In many Christian traditions, humility is often thought to play a central role in the moral and spiritual life. In this study of the moral virtue of humility, the methods of analytic philosophy are applied to the field of moral theology in order to analyze this virtue and its connections to human flourishing. The book is therefore best characterized as a work in analytic moral theology, and has two primary aims. First, it articulates and defends a particular Christian conception of the virtue of humility. It offers a Christological account of this trait, one that is grounded in the gospel accounts of the life of Christ as well as other key New Testament passages. The view of humility it offers and defends is biblically grounded, theologically informed, and philosophically sound. Second, this book describes ways in which humility is constitutive of and conducive to human flourishing, Christianly understood. It argues that humility is rational, benefits its possessor, and contributes to its possessor being good qua human. It also examines several issues in applied virtue ethics. It considers some of the ways in which humility is relevant to several of the classic spiritual disciplines, such as prayer, fasting, solitude, silence, and service. It considers humility’s relevance to issues related to religious pluralism and tolerance. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of the relevance of humility for family life and how it can function as a virtue in the context of sport.
Book chapters on the topic "Christological analysis"
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Miśkowicz, Klaudia. "Wolna ojczyzna – dar i zobowiązanie." In Horyzonty wolności, 195–202. Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie. Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.15633/9788374388320.18.
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The text concerns an issue of homeland’s freedom according to John Paul II’s analysis about notions of nation, homeland and freedom. The close connection between freedom of a human and freedom of a nation is emphasised in the text – from human right to be free flows a right for nation to be free. The important strain in the text is also the impor-tance of Christological way of interpretation of history of nations – freedom of a nation is given for its members to become similar to Christ. It is impossible to understand a human and a nation without Christ.
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Tabor, Dariusz. "Średniowieczne drzwi brązowe i ich cykle obrazowe jako wyraz liturgii : analiza wybranych przykładów." In Przestrzeń liturgiczna. Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie. Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.15633/9788374387828.06.
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The medieval bronze doors and its pictorial cycles as an expression of liturgy: analysis of selected examples The principal goal of this paper is to discovery a relationship between pictorial pro-grams of bronze doors of some european churches and the liturgy celebrated in these churches. There is a group of doors, that have been decorated with images represent-ing scenes of Old and New Testament. These are doors from Hildesheim, Verona, Płock and doors made by Bonanus of Pisa – from cathedrale of Pisa and cathedrale of Dariusz Tabor CR122 Monreale. Its pictorial cycles reveal some balance between images of Old and images of New Testament. On the one hand the Old Testament pictures seems to forecast the events of New Testament. On the other hand the doors of Płock, Piza and Monreale have strictly christological image program, although at the beginning of narative Old Testament elements were also introduced. All these programs are the result of the theological knowledge and sensitivity of clergymen, who designed them at that time. Lech Kalinowski interpreted church doors as a symbole of Christ. However only the alegorical interpetation of liturgy, having its origine in the carolingian culture, can give answer to the question on the relationship between images of doors and liturgy. The course of liturgy and its acts were understood as a recontrsuction of events of Christ’s life. So the background of the pictorial, christological cycles of bronze doors was a christological interpretation of the liturgy. However it is not only the matter of presenting the episods of life of Christ, but also of visualization of two mysteries – the Mystery of Incarnation and the Mystery of Salvation. The Gniezno door with the life cycle of saint Afdalbert, th doors of Trani and of Ravello, made by Barisanus, where hagiographic and symbolic representations predominate, as well as the door of Augsburg, whose symbolic images make many difficulties in reading them, are the exceptions and special cases. There are considerable difficulties in finding theirs connections to the liturgy celebrated in the church. Therefore they must be researched in a special way in the future
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Silva, José Filipe. "Incarnating." In Robert Kilwardby, 253–78. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190674755.003.0008.
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The chapter examines Kilwardby’s account of the doctrine of the Incarnation from the threefold perspective of its metaphysics, its epistemology, and its emotion theory. Adopting the medieval structure of analysis of the doctrine of the incarnation in Book III of the Sentences, the chapter considers in three different sections the core issues of the Christological debate: first, how do the two natures of Christ (divine and human) come together in constituting one person? Second, what kind of knowledge was available to Christ as both human and divine, namely does he acquire new knowledge and is thus changed? Third, was the incarnated Christ subject to suffering as other human beings, that is to say, was Christ’s soul affected by passions like fear?
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Zachhuber, Johannes. "Severus of Antioch." In The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics, 119–44. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198859956.003.0004.
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This chapter addresses the transformations of the Cappadocian philosophy introduced by the miaphysite opponents of the Council of Chalcedon. It begins with a critical assessment of a scholarly tradition that saw miaphysite thought as opposed to Cappadocian principles. In reality, all major representatives of this tradition drew on Cappadocian insights although their reception was partial. Central to the chapter is an analysis of Severus of Antioch’s use of Cappadocian philosophy in his controversy with John the Grammarian. It is shown that Severus throughout exploited the concrete dimension of the Cappadocian theory but left the abstract dimension to one side. To explain the ontological continuity between universal natures and their individual manifestations, he came close to introducing particular natures. Ultimately, he recognized the need to adapt the Cappadocian theory in light of the Christological debate but was reluctant to move beyond the terms and concepts he found in the fathers.
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McCall, Thomas H. "The Logos and His Logic." In Analytic Christology and the Theological Interpretation of the New Testament, 177–206. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857495.003.0007.
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Chapter 6 engages with Jc Beall’s recent and fascinating Christological proposal. His bold and novel proposal is that we accept the traditional, creedal doctrine of the incarnation as a genuine and genuinely true contradiction. After introducing his views of logic and the relation of logic to theological claims in general and Christology in particular, the chapter raises some distinctly theological concerns; in addition to several issues that are grounded in the history of doctrine, it raises some worries that come directly from theological interpretation of the New Testament’s witness to Jesus Christ.
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Moyaert, Marianne. "Who Is the Suffering Servant?" In Comparing Faithfully. Fordham University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823274666.003.0012.
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Marianne Moyaert analyzes how interreligious exchange on the Suffering Servant in the First Testament (Isa. 52:13–53:12) has challenged and transformed Christological reflection. Taking into account contemporary Jewish criticisms of Christian theology, she critiques the Christian hermeneutics of Jürgen Moltmann in a post-holocaust setting. Levinas’s ethical treatment of the suffering servant provides a helpful alternative interpretation. Against the anti-Jewish attitudes in much of Christian theology, Moyaert’s reading of these figures rejects Christian triumphalism and a reappropriates a kenotic Christology.
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Schäfer, Peter. "Has God a Father, a Son, or a Brother?" In The Jewish Jesus. Princeton University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691153902.003.0006.
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This chapter returns to the realm of Palestinian Judaism and analyzes midrashim referring to God's family background. These midrashim again reflect the power structure of the Roman Empire with the emperor's dynasty, which includes the father, the brother, the son, and probably also the adoptive son. Since this hierarchy forms the backdrop of the nascent Christological speculations, it appears that it is the relationship between God and his Son in particular that is at stake in these sources. Additionally, some of these midrashim hint at the increasingly heated debate between Jews and Christians over the question of who is true heir to the Land of Israel.
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Forness, Philip Michael. "Homilies as Tools for Teaching Theology." In Preaching Christology in the Roman Near East, 157–85. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826453.003.0006.
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This chapter analyzes how Jacob of Serugh communicates Christology within the poetic restraints and oral context of his homilies. He preached his Homily on the Faith in an educational setting and emphasized a correct understanding of Christology. Three known phrases from the Christological controversies reveal the subtle ways that he weaves miaphysite Christology into his homilies. He quotes a phrase attributed to Nestorios of Constantinople in order to liken his opponents to the defamed archbishop. He draws on an even earlier phrase from the fourth-century Trinitarian controversies in accusing his opponents of worshipping a human. Finally, he uses the pairing of miracles and sufferings to criticize the Christology of his opponents and to promote his own views on Christology. Jacob’s transformation of these three phrases reveals how he modifies his expression of Christology to teach his theological perspective within the poetic and stylistic expectations of metrical homilies.
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Drake, K. J. "The extra Calvinisticum from the Marburg Colloquy to the Consensus Tigurinus." In The Flesh of the Word, 77–139. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197567944.003.0003.
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This chapter investigates the historical and theological development of the extra Calvinisticum from the Marburg Colloquy (1529) to the Consensus Tigurinus (1549). During this period, the proponents of the emerging Reformed tradition expanded the theological basis for the extra by incorporating additional arguments from Scripture, the church councils, and the church fathers. First, the chapter investigates the debate at the Marburg Colloquy demonstrating that the christological divergence between Zwingli and Luther was rooted not only in theological and hermeneutical method but also in the doctrines of God and anthropology. The chapter analyzes Zwingli’s final works, Fidei Ratio and Fidei Expositio, in which he presents a more robust understanding of the hypostatic union. The final section addresses the Consensus Tigurinus, written by Heinrich Bullinger and John Calvin, which offers the confessionalization of the extra in the Reformed tradition and effectively marks the definitive parting of ways within Protestantism over the Lord’s Supper.
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Bazzana, Giovanni B. "Beelzebul Against Satan." In Having the Spirit of Christ, 24–59. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300245622.003.0002.
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This chapter is focused on the analysis of an extremely puzzling Gospel pericope. A careful redaction-critical examination of the texts recording the “Beelzebul accusation” shows that these Gospel materials preserve a much more complex and challenging representation of the dynamics of possession. In particular, the pericope describes, by employing a theological political idiom, the diversity and conflict that characterize the “spirit” world. In such a context a medium can find a way to cope with the traumatic and empowering experience of the Other that is at the root of possession and, in so doing, to cease being a “hostage” but rather a true “host.” The chapter's redaction-critical analysis reveals that the earliest form of this pericope represented the performative and dialogical nature of “emergent” possession. However, the immediate developments of the oral and textual tradition already began to re-center the episode christologically and to cast it within a polemical frame.