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- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Texts and Translations
- Abbreviations
- Series Introduction
- Introduction
- Part I The Beginnings of Christology
- Part II Developing Christological Traditions
- Part III Traditions of Pro-Nicene Christology
- 21 Tome to the Antiochenes 7
- 22 Athanasius of Alexandria, Christological Letters to Epictetus, Adelphius, and Maximus
- 23 Apollinarius of Laodicea, Recapitulation
- 24 Apollinarius of Laodicea, Selected Letters
- 25 Apollinarius of Laodicea, On the Faith and the Incarnation
- 26 Apollinarius of Laodicea, On the Body’s Union with the Divinity in Christ
- 27 Apollinarius of Laodicea, Fragments of Other Writings
- 28 Apollinarius of Laodicea, Fragmentary Writings against Diodore and Flavian
- 29 Basil of Caesarea, Letters 261 and 262
- 30 Basil of Caesarea, Homily on the Holy Birth of Christ
- 31 Diodore of Tarsus, Selected Fragments
- 32 Gregory of Nazianzus, Letter 101 to Cledonius
- 33 Gregory of Nazianzus, Poems 1.1.10–11
- 34 Gregory of Nyssa, Oration on the Savior’s Nativity
- 35 Theodore of Mopsuestia, On the Incarnation of the Lord against the Apollinarians and Eunomians (Fragments)
- 36 Augustine of Hippo, On Eighty-Three Different Questions. Number 80: Against the Apollinarians
- 37 Augustine of Hippo, Letter 137
- 38 The Leporius Dossier
- 39 Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
- Part IV Controversy over Nestorius
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Scriptural Index
35 - Theodore of Mopsuestia, On the Incarnation of the Lord against the Apollinarians and Eunomians (Fragments)
from Part III - Traditions of Pro-Nicene Christology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2022
- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Texts and Translations
- Abbreviations
- Series Introduction
- Introduction
- Part I The Beginnings of Christology
- Part II Developing Christological Traditions
- Part III Traditions of Pro-Nicene Christology
- 21 Tome to the Antiochenes 7
- 22 Athanasius of Alexandria, Christological Letters to Epictetus, Adelphius, and Maximus
- 23 Apollinarius of Laodicea, Recapitulation
- 24 Apollinarius of Laodicea, Selected Letters
- 25 Apollinarius of Laodicea, On the Faith and the Incarnation
- 26 Apollinarius of Laodicea, On the Body’s Union with the Divinity in Christ
- 27 Apollinarius of Laodicea, Fragments of Other Writings
- 28 Apollinarius of Laodicea, Fragmentary Writings against Diodore and Flavian
- 29 Basil of Caesarea, Letters 261 and 262
- 30 Basil of Caesarea, Homily on the Holy Birth of Christ
- 31 Diodore of Tarsus, Selected Fragments
- 32 Gregory of Nazianzus, Letter 101 to Cledonius
- 33 Gregory of Nazianzus, Poems 1.1.10–11
- 34 Gregory of Nyssa, Oration on the Savior’s Nativity
- 35 Theodore of Mopsuestia, On the Incarnation of the Lord against the Apollinarians and Eunomians (Fragments)
- 36 Augustine of Hippo, On Eighty-Three Different Questions. Number 80: Against the Apollinarians
- 37 Augustine of Hippo, Letter 137
- 38 The Leporius Dossier
- 39 Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
- Part IV Controversy over Nestorius
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Scriptural Index
Summary
Theodore was a native of Antioch where he was trained in rhetoric by Libanius before entering the ascetical school led by Diodore (later bishop of Tarsus). He was ordained a priest by Flavian of Antioch in 383 and then in 392 was consecrated bishop of Mopsuestia. In the course of his long episcopal tenure Theodore came to be regarded as one of the foremost theologians and exegetes of the pro-Nicene cause. In addition to numerous biblical commentaries on books of the Old and New Testaments, he produced a set of catechetical homilies explaining the Nicene Creed and the Lord’s Prayer, polemical treatises such as Against Eunomius and Dispute with the Macedonians, as well as other works. Theodore’s On the Incarnation was also polemical, according to the late fifth-century Gennadius of Marseilles:
Theodore, presbyter of the Antiochene church, a man prudent in knowledge and skillful in speech, wrote fifteen books On the Incarnation of the Lord against the Apollinarians and Eunomians, containing as many as fifteen thousand verses, in which he showed by the clearest reasoning and by the testimonies of scripture that just as the Lord Jesus had the fullness of deity, so too he had the fullness of humanity. He taught also that a human being consists only of two substances, that is soul and body, and that mind and spirit are not different substances, but inborn faculties of the soul through which it is inspired and is rational and makes the body capable of sensation. Moreover, the fourteenth book of this work is properly devoted to discussing the uncreated and alone incorporeal and all-ruling nature of the holy Trinity and also the rationality of creatures, which he explains insightfully on the authority of the holy scriptures. But in the fifteenth volume he confirms and strengthens the whole body of his work by citing the traditions of the fathers.1
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- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings , pp. 420 - 488Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022