Christ in Christian tradition. Vol. 2. Part 4. From the Council of Chalcedon (451) to Gregory the Great (590-604) : the Church of Alexandria with Nubia and Ethiopia after 451
Print Book, English, 1996
Mowbray, London, 1996
xxiv, 431 pages ; 25 cm
9780264660189, 0264660188
1155217737
PART ONE. ALEXANDRIAN-GREEK CHRISTOLOGY/
Section One. The Christology of the Patriarchs/
Chapter 1. Timothy Aelurus : the foundation of Alexandrian-Greek Christology in the rejection of Chalcedon/
1. The secret patriarch of Alexandria/
2.A Christological battle on two fronts/
a. On the truth of the incarnation of Christ/
b. The polemic against the 'Nestorianism' of Leo I's Tome to Flavian and of the Council Chalcedon/
aa. The differenct concept of nature/
bb. A questionable argument for the divinity of the incarnate One/
3. The Christology of Timothy and its aporias/
a. Appeal to tradition/
b. The aporia of the mia-physis formula/
Chapter 2. The struggle between Chalcedonians and Anti-Chalcedonians (by T. Hainthaler)/
1. The peaceful Chalcedonian, Timothy 'Wobble-Cap'/
2. Peter Mongus, anti-Chalcedonian patriarch 'by Henoticon's grace'/
3. The successors of Peter Mongus/
4. Timothy IV (III), Patriarch of Alexandria at the time of the controversy between Julian and Severus/
5. Gaianus and the Gaianites/
On the doctrine of the Gaianites/
Chapter 3. Theodosius, Patriarch of Alexandria, spiritual heir of Severus of Antioch/
1. Sollicitudo omnium Ecclesiarum/
2.'Causa mutiplicis certaminis'/
3. The basic traits of Theodosian Christology/
a. His authorties/
b. His confession of faith/
c. His heresiology/
d. Connections with Severan terminology/
e. The one energeia/
Chapter 4. The development of two hierarchies (by T. Hainthaler)/
I. The Chalcedonian hierarchy : the Melkites/
1. The Melkite patriarchs of 538-580/
2. Eulogius, a neo-Chalcedonian theologian of mediation?/
II. The anti-Chalcedonian hierarchy : the Copts/
1. The Coptic hierarchy after 575/
2. Damian, head of the 'Monophysite' world/
3. Benjamin, Coptic patriarch and leader under Persian, Byzantine and Islamic rule/
Summary/
Section Two. The Christology of the Scholars/
Chapter 1. The poet Nonnus of Panopolis and his fellow countrymen/
1. Cyrus of Panopolis/
2. Pamprepius/
3. Nonnus of Panopolis/
a. Preliminary questions/
b. The christological standpoint of Nonnus's paraphrase of John/
aa. General characterization/
bb. The christological statement of Nonnus's paraphrase of John/
4. Dioscorus of Aphrodito (by T. Hainthaler)/
Chapter 2. Two Alexandrian exegetes/
1. The presbyter Ammonius/
2. The deacon Olympiodore (by T. Hainthaler)/
Chapter 3. John Philoponus, philosopher and theologian in Alexandria (by T. Hainthaler)/
I. The man and his work/
II. The Christology of John Philoponus/
1. The basic traits of Philoponian Christology in the polemic Tmemata/
2. The Diaetetes and its conceptuality/
a. The manner of the union/
b. The number 'two'/
c. On the intellectual division/
d. On the picture of Christ of John Philoponus/
3. The letter to Justinian/
III. John Philoponus and tritheism/
The anti-tritheistic initiative of Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople/
IV. John Philoponus and his teaching on the resurrection/
The resurrection teaching of Patriarch Eutychius/
V. Final evaluation/
Chapter 4.'Cosmas Indicopleustes' (by A. Grillmeier and T. Hainthaler)/
1. On the Christology of the Topographia Christiana/
a.A christological rereading of the Old Testament/
b. An optimistic anthropology/
c. The eschatological viewpoint/
2.A brief synthesis of the Christology of the Topographia Christiana/
a. The question of 'Nestorianism'/
b. The trinitarian-christological credo of Cosmas and its orthodoxy/
c. Cosmas and tradition/
PART TWO. THE 'PROVINCE OF COPTIC CHRISTOLOGY'/
Chapter 1. Shenoute as the founder of Coptic Christology/
I.A new source for Shenoute's Christology and for Coptic theology in general/
1. The Nag Hammadi tractates and the monastic movement in Upper Egypt (Thebaid)/
2. Special indications of Shenoute as the author of the new exhoration/
a.A call for help from Patriarch Dioscorus (444-451/454) to Shenoute/
b. Shenoute and Nestorius in Upper Egypt/
c. The Annals of Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria as background description/
II. Shenoute's exhortation as a mirror of the faith situation of the Coptic Chruch between 431 and 451/
1. The spread of superstition/
2. The threat to the Nicene faith in God and Christ/
a. Angel Christology and the creatureliness of the Son/
b. The two seraphim of Is 6,2/
c. Injury to the Nicene and Nicene-Constantinopolitan faith/
d. The dispute over prayer to Jesus/
Shenoute as witness to prayer to Jesus/
3. Gnostic-Origenistic infiltration of 'apocryphal' origin/
a. Double creation/
b.'Large' and 'small' history/
aa. The 'gospel of Jesus the Son of God, generated by the angels' (generazione degli angeli)/
bb. The denial of the 'small history' of Jesus on earth/
cc. The Pascha in heaven and on earth/
dd. Human beings in this 'large' and 'small' history : Origenism/
Marcion or Mani?/
c. Christology and understanding of the Eucharist in dissolution/
4. Shenoute and Nestorius/
a. Shenoute's own report/
b. Shenoute's quotations from Nestorius/
c. Shenoute and Nestorius in legend/
Summary/
III. A second christological catechesis of Shenoute/
IV. Sodalis Dei et Christi amicus. A closing report on Shenoute's Christology/
a.A biblical Christocentrism/
b.A salvation-economic theology of the one history of creation and salvation/
c.A kerygmatic theology/
d.A pre-Chalcedonian Christology in service to the patriarch Dioscorus/
Excursus : On the wider Coptic-christological context of Shenoute's exhortation/
a. Anthropomorphism against Origenism in the 'Life of Aphu'/
b. Coptic Origenists against anthropomorphism/
c.'Agathonicus' between Christian Gnostics and Patriarch Theophilus/Shenoute/
Chapter 2. In the light and shadow of the master : Archimandrite Besa (d. after 474)/
Chapter 3. On Christology in the liturgical prayer of the Coptic church/
1. The three leading anaphoras of the Egyptian liturgy/
a. The liturgy of Mark (Cyril)/
b. The liturgy of Basil/
c. The liturgy of Gregory/
2. The christological peculiarities of the three Egyptian eucharistic prayers/
a. The addressing of Christ in the Gregory anaphora and in the other eucharistic prayers/
b. Epiclesis/
3. Christological elements in some other Coptic anaphoras/
4. Christological peculiarities in the lectionaries/
5. The book of Psalmody/
6. The Coptic synaxarion/
PART THREE. THE 'CROSS OF CHRIST' OVER NUBIA/
Chapter 1. The silent 'eremite mission' in pre-Chalcedonian Nubia/
Chapter 2. The 'Official' evangelization of Nubia in the sixth century/
1. The missionary expedition of the priest Julian (542-548)/
2. The missionary expedition of Bishop Longinus (566-580)/
a. The mission of 569-575/
b. The evangelization of the Alodaeans/
3. The Chalcedonian mission in the Middle Kingdom/
Chapter 3. The further history of Christian Nubia/
Chapter 4. In search of Nubian faith in Christ/
1. The iconographic testimony/
2. The liturgical testimony/
3. Veneration of the cross in Nubia/
PART FOUR. CHRIST IN A NEW MESSIANIC KINGDOM FAITH IN CHRIST IN ETHIOPIA/
Chapter 1. The introduction of Christianity/
Chapter 2. The mission of the 'nine saints'/
Chapter 3. Axum as the first Christian kingdom of non-Chalcedonian confession and its crusade into southern Arabia/
1. The new source situation/
a. The writings of Bishop Simeon of Beth-Arsam/
b. The Martyrium Arethae/
2. The events/
a. The Conference of Ramla (520/521)/
b. Actions of Bishop Simeon of Beth-Arsam/
c. The crusade of King Kaleb/
3. The confession of Christ of the martyrs of Himyar/
a. Christocentrism/
b. Yusuf's demand on the Christians/
c. The confession of the martyrs/
Chapter 4. The religious
cultural background of Ethiopian Christian faith/
1. Jewish influences/
a. The Ethipian Church and its liturgical apparatus/
b. The liturgical cycle of feasts/
c. Circumcision and other observances/
d. The Jewish Targum in the Ethiopian Tergum/
The Falashas/
2. Cyrillian-Alexandrian influences/
3. Syrian influences/
4. Translations from Arabic/
Chapter 5. Faith in Christ in the Ethiopian Church/
1. Jewish and Jewish-Christian motifs in Ethiopian Christology/
a. Translatio Regni Messianici/
b. Jesus the 'anointed one'/
aa. Patristic discussion : Qerellos
Philoxenus of Mabbug/
bb. The 'anointment' in the Ethiopian theology of the late middle age and the modern period/
1. In the Mashafa Milad/
2.A Church history text/
3.'The mirror of insight'/
4.A new phase in the dispute/
5. The conflict under King Yohannes/
c. The baptism of Jesus in the Jordan/
aa. The baptism of Jesus in Ethiopian formulas of faith/
bb. The baptism of Jesus in Ethiopian anaphoras/
d. Names and numbers/
e. The mysticism of the symbols/
f. Retrospective/
2. Limitations/
a. Jewish Christian
and yet Christology from above/
b. Nearness to and distance from Judaism/
3. Relationshp to universal Church Christology, its terminology and systematic representation/
a. Negative/
b. Positive/
c. Ethiopia and the conceptual language of the universal Church/
Chapter 6. The position of Jesus in the worship and prayer of the Ethiopian Church/
1. Christ in the structure of the Church year/
2. The alleged Monophysitism of the Ethiopian anaphoras/
3. Chalcedonian-anti-Chalcedonian conceptual language in the liturgy?/
4. Christ in the priestly prayer of the hours/
5. An example of extra-liturgical prayer to Christ/
Final reflections/
1. Alexandria, the 'Christ-loving city'/
2. The Archimandrite Shenoute and his christological significance/
3. Nubia/
4. Ethiopia
Part 4 The Church of Alexandria with Nubia and Ethiopia after 451