Book Description
This series traces the reflection provoked by Christ's question: "Who do you say that I am?" from the earliest days of Christianity to the Seventh Ecumenical Council. They range from the most fundamental issues, concerning how Christ is known and the standard by which responses to him can be evaluated, to the subsequent reflections regarding his relationship to God and to us.
About the Author
John Behr is Associate Professor of Patristics at St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary.
Way to Nicaea: Formation of Christian Theology FROM THE PUBLISHER
"This first volume treats the initial three centuries of the Christian era. Part I examines the establishment of normative Christianity on the basis of the tradition and canon of the Gospel and briefly sketches the portrait of the Scriptural Christ inscribed in the New Testament. Part II analyzes selected figures from the second century - Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr and Irenaeus of Lyons - considering how they understood Christ to be the Word of God. Part III turns of the third century, treating Hippolytus and the debates in Rome, Origen and his legacy in Alexandria and Paul of Samosata and the Council of Antioch, in a continued examination of Christ as the Word and Son of God. These debates form the background for the controversies and Councils of the following centuries, to be examined in subsequent volumes."--BOOK JACKET.
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