Christ in Christian Tradition: From the Apostolic Age to Chalcedon (451)

Aloys Grillmeier

Westminster John Knox Press, Nov 1, 1975 - Religion - 624 pages

A monumental work in scope and content, Aloys Grillmeier's Chirst in the Christian Tradition offers students and scholars a comprehensive exposition of Western writing on the history of doctrine. Volume One covers the Apostolic Age to Chalcedon (451).

Contents

• BIBLICAL STARTINGPOINTS FOR PATRISTIC CHRISTOLOGY: 3
• 33: 18
• 76: 27
• FIRST GROWTH THE CHRISTOLOGY OF THE SECOND: 33
• CONCLUSION: 103
• FROM HIPPOLYTUS TO ORIGEN THE FOUNDATION: 106
• 104: 136
• CONCLUSION: 148
• SECTION: 167
• ARIUS AND ARIANISM: 219
• THE COUNCIL OF Nicaea 325 and ITS INTERPRETA: 249
• FROM THE NICENE SON AND LOGOS TO A DOCTRINE: 274
• BETWEEN ARIANISM AND APOLLINARIANISM: 302
• APOLLINARIANISM: 329
• RETROSPECT: 341
• THE LOGOSANTHROPOS CHRISTOLOGY: 345
• NEW TRENDS AFTER ORIGEN: 361
• THE WESTERN CONTRIBUTION: 392
• THE EVE OF EPHESUS: 414
• INTRODUCTION: 443
• THE LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT OF NESTORIUS: 451
• THE NESTORIUS QUESTION AND ROME: 464
• CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA THE ADVERSARY OF NESTORIUS: 473
• THE COUNCIL OF EPHESUS: 484
• THE EVE OF CHALCEDON: 520
• THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON: 541
• CHALCEDON AND THE HISTORY OF THEOLOGY: 551
• THE NESTORIUS QUESTION IN MODERN STUDY: 559
• BIBLIOGRAPHY: 569
• INDEX OF SUBJECTS: 581
• INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES: 590

About the author

Aloys Grillmeier, S.J. was Professor of Dogmatics at St. Georgen Theological Seminary in Frankfurt am Main, Germany from 1950-78. He was an expert theologian at the Second Vatican Council from 1962-65 and was named a cardinal-deacon of the Catholic Church in 1994.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Christ in Christian Tradition: From the Apostolic Age to Chalcedon (451); Volume 1 of Christ in Christian Tradition; Volume 1 of Jesus der Christus im Glauben der Kirche
• Author: Aloys Grillmeier
• Translated by: John Bowden
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 1975
• ISBN: 066422301X, 9780664223014
• Length: 624 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources; Religion / Christian Rituals & Practice / General; Religion / Christian Theology / Christology