Book contents
- Human Salvation in Early Christianity
- Reviews
- Human Salvation in Early Christianity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Rise and Fall of Early Christian Physicalist Soteriology
- 2 Scholarly Approaches to Physicalist Soteriology
- 3 Athanasius
- 4 Hilary of Poitiers
- 5 Marius Victorinus
- 6 Gregory of Nyssa
- 7 Cyril of Alexandria
- 8 Maximus the Confessor
- 9 The Almost, but Not Quite, Physicalists
- 10 Constructive Approaches to the Historical Reality of Physicalism
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Hilary of Poitiers
Collective Physicalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2025
- Human Salvation in Early Christianity
- Reviews
- Human Salvation in Early Christianity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Rise and Fall of Early Christian Physicalist Soteriology
- 2 Scholarly Approaches to Physicalist Soteriology
- 3 Athanasius
- 4 Hilary of Poitiers
- 5 Marius Victorinus
- 6 Gregory of Nyssa
- 7 Cyril of Alexandria
- 8 Maximus the Confessor
- 9 The Almost, but Not Quite, Physicalists
- 10 Constructive Approaches to the Historical Reality of Physicalism
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Scholars on Hilary have been uniquely open to and accepting of the presence of physicalist soteriology in Hilary’s thought. Hilary presents a corporate physicalism in which all humans exist in Christ’s incarnate body apart from, and prior to, any individual willing or choice, and this existence in Christ’s body gives eternal incorruptibility to all humans. However, Hilary presents salvation not merely as incorruptibility but as a complete and never-ending mutual indwelling of individuals and Christ. The physicalist existence of humans in Christ’s body is the necessary foundation of this permanent mutual indwelling, but the choices of each individual either enable or reject it.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Human Salvation in Early ChristianityExploring the Theology of Physicalist Soteriology, pp. 96 - 129Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025