The Assumption of the Human Nature in Christ by the Antiochian Theologians of the 5th Century

Doctoral Dissertation uoadl:1665050 838 Read counter

Unit:
Department of Theology
Library of the School of Theology
Deposit date:
2017-06-10
Year:
2017
Author:
Koutsouroumpas Nektarios
Dissertation committee:
Σαββάτος Χρυσόστομος (Μητροπολίτης Μεσσηνίας), Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Θεολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (Επιβλέπων Καθηγητής)
Λιάκουρας Κωνσταντίνος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Θεολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (Μέλος Συμβουλευτικής Επιτροπής)
Ξιώνης Νικόλαος, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Θεολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (Μέλος Συμβουλευτικής Επιτροπής)
Κατερέλος Κύριλλος (Επίσκοπος Αβύδου), Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (Μέλος Επταμελούς Επιτροπής)
Κολοβοπούλου Μαρίνα, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Θεολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (Μέλος Επταμελούς Επιτροπής)
Γιαννακοπούλου Ελένη, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (Μέλος Επταμελούς Επιτροπής)
Σταυρόπουλος - Γιουσπάσογλου Γεώργιος, Λέκτορας, Τμήμα Θεολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (Μέλος Επταμελούς Επιτροπής)
Original Title:
Ἡ ἐν Χριστῷ πρόσληψις τῆς ἀνθρώπινης φύσεως κατὰ τοὺς Ἀντιοχειανοὺς θεολόγους τοῦ 5ου αἰῶνος
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
The Assumption of the Human Nature in Christ by the Antiochian Theologians of the 5th Century
Summary:
This Ph.D. dissertation examines the Christology Teaching of the most important Antiochian Theologians of the 5th century; Theodore of Mopsuestia, Nestorius of Constantinople and Theodoret of Cyrus. Diodore of Tarsus, lived and acted in the 4th century, is also examined, since he played a significant role in forming the teaching of these three Antiochian School representatives. History, evolution, basic characteristics and especially, the significance of the Antiochian Theological School in Church Theology, as well as its differences with the Theological School of Alexandria are presented in the Introduction of the dissertation. This presentation focuses on the historical-grammatical method of interpretation of the Holy Bible of the Antiochian Theological School and its relation to the allegorical method of interpretation of the Alexandrian Theological School, as well.
The first chapter consists of two parts. The first part demonstrates the three great Antiochian theologians' historical and anthropocentric interpretation of the Bible, presenting the interpretation of the fundamental Christological phrase "The Word became flesh" (John 1:14), and the way the Antiochian fathers perceived the Alexandrian method of interpretation. In the second part, the theory of the existence of the Christological formulas "Logos-Sarx", "Logos-Anthropos" and their correspondence with the Alexandrian and Antiochian Christology is respectively presented.
Having taken the foundation of Antiochian Christology as the way of interpreting the Bible into account, the study proceeds to the negotiation of the three fundamental pillars of Church teaching.
The second chapter examines the Antiochian perception concerning the way the human nature of Christ was received by God the Word (“union by good pleasure”) and what is their meaning of the union of divinity and human nature (“conjunction”).
In the third chapter, the second pillar of Antiochian Christology is presented; the emphasis is on the human nature of Christ as a natural consequence of the Antiochian historical and anthropocentric interpretation in which human nature is posed as a subject of the historical events of the human life of Christ, as well as the use of the terms “union by good pleasure” and “conjunction”, which ensures that the union of divine and human nature keeps them not confused.
The fourth chapter of the thesis examines the third and last pillar of Antiochian Christology: the existence of a common person for the divine and human nature of Christ.
The last chapter of the dissertation examines the refusal of the term "Theotokos" for the Virgin Mary as a crowning achievement of the entire Antiochian Christological structure as well as the outward expression of the Christology of the 5th-century Antiochian theologians. Τhis Antiochian notion was introduced to the flock of the Church and eventually rejected as inadequate to explain the mystery of the union of divine and human nature of Christ.
Main subject category:
Religion
Keywords:
Antiochian Theological School, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Nestorius of Constantinople, Theodoret of Cyrus, Diodore of Tarsus, Christology, Theotokos, Prosopon, Nature, Human Nature of Christ, Divine Nature of Christ, Cyril of Alexandria, Theology, History of Dogma, Patrology, Patristic Theology
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
No
Number of references:
484
Number of pages:
465
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