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6 - Jesus and the Triune God

from Part I - Origins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2024

By
Lewis Ayres
Edited by
Markus Bockmuehl
Markus Bockmuehl
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

This chapter considers the ways in which the classical credal and conciliar formulae provide a framework for understanding who Jesus Christ is and how God saves through the Incarnate Word. These credal and conciliar formulae provide the foundation for theologies across the spectrum of Christian traditions. The chapter is broadly divided into two sections, one focusing on the fourth century Trinitarian controversies, the second focusing on the christological controversies of the fifth to the seventh centuries. For classical Christian theology, only when Jesus is known as the Word made flesh, and as one coequal to Father and Spirit in the divine life, can the work of redemption be understood.

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TrinityNicaeaChalcedonincarnationWord
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The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus , pp. 88 - 102
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Ayres, Lewis. 2004. Nicaea and Its Legacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Daley, Brian E. 2018. God Visible: Patristic Christology Reconsidered. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
DelCogliano, Mark. 2022. Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy. The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Dyson, R. W., ed. 1998. Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Norris, Richard A. 1980. The Christological Controversy. Philadelphia: Fortress.Google Scholar
Price, Richard. 2012. The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.Google Scholar
Radde-Gallwitz, Andrew, ed. 2017. God. The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Tanner, Norman P., ed. 1990. Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils. 2 vols. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.Google Scholar
White, Thomas Joseph. 2015. The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wickham, Lionel R., ed. 1983. Cyril of Alexandria: Select Letters. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press.Google Scholar
Wilken, Robert Louis. 2003. The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God. New Haven: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
Williams, Rowan. 2018. Christ the Heart of Creation. London: Bloomsbury Continuum.Google Scholar

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