Eranistes / translated by Gerard H. Ettlinger.

By:

Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus

Contributor(s):

Ettlinger, Gérard H

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Fzxathers of the churchPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (x, 281 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813212067
0813212065
0813201063
9780813201061

Uniform titles:

Eranistēs. English

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Eranistes.DDC classification:

270 s 232/.8 21

LOC classification:

BR65.T753 E7313 2003eb

Other classification:

11.61
BO 1160

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Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Introduction""; ""Eranistes""; ""Prologue""; ""Immutable: Dialogue 1""; ""Unmixed: Dialogue 2""; ""Impassible: Dialogue 3""; ""Epilogue""; ""Indices""; ""General Index""; ""Index of Holy Scripture""

Review: "This translation of a major document in patristic Christology, the first translation since the nineteenth century, is based on the modern critical edition of Theodoret's Greek text. Theodoret was the leading theologian of his time in the Antiochene tradition. In the Eranistes (written in 447), he offers a lengthy exposition of his Christology coupled with a refutation of the so-called Monophysite Christology that, despite its condemnation at the General Council held at Chalcedon in 451, survives to this day, having been embraced by several large churches of the East. The "Monophysite" controversy caused a tremendous rift between East and West, and the Eranistes portrays the hostility and the stubborn resistance to the thought of others that afflicted both sides in the conflict." "The Eranistes is written in the form of three dialogues between two characters: Orthodox, who represents Theodoret's thought, and Eranistes, who is presented as a heretic. In two dialogues Theodoret argues that the Word of God was immutable and impassible in his divine nature, and that Christ experienced change and passion only in his human nature. A third dialogue argues that, in the union of the divinity and humanity in the one person of the Word incarnate, the natures remained unmixed. To bolster his arguments Theodoret incorporates extensive citations, not only from orthodox ecclesiastical writers, but also from the heretic Apollinarius and the suspected Arian, Eusebius of Emesa. The texts of many of these citations are known only from the Eranistes and are therefore important witnesses to the development of patristic Christology."--Jacket.

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"This translation of a major document in patristic Christology, the first translation since the nineteenth century, is based on the modern critical edition of Theodoret's Greek text. Theodoret was the leading theologian of his time in the Antiochene tradition. In the Eranistes (written in 447), he offers a lengthy exposition of his Christology coupled with a refutation of the so-called Monophysite Christology that, despite its condemnation at the General Council held at Chalcedon in 451, survives to this day, having been embraced by several large churches of the East. The "Monophysite" controversy caused a tremendous rift between East and West, and the Eranistes portrays the hostility and the stubborn resistance to the thought of others that afflicted both sides in the conflict." "The Eranistes is written in the form of three dialogues between two characters: Orthodox, who represents Theodoret's thought, and Eranistes, who is presented as a heretic. In two dialogues Theodoret argues that the Word of God was immutable and impassible in his divine nature, and that Christ experienced change and passion only in his human nature. A third dialogue argues that, in the union of the divinity and humanity in the one person of the Word incarnate, the natures remained unmixed. To bolster his arguments Theodoret incorporates extensive citations, not only from orthodox ecclesiastical writers, but also from the heretic Apollinarius and the suspected Arian, Eusebius of Emesa. The texts of many of these citations are known only from the Eranistes and are therefore important witnesses to the development of patristic Christology."--Jacket.

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