Nicaea and Its Legacy

An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-875506-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 904 g

The first part of Nicaea and its Legacy offers a narrative of the fourth-century trinitarian controversy. It does not assume that the controversy begins with Arius, but with tensions among existing theological strategies. Lewis Ayres argues that, just as we cannot speak of one `Arian' theology, so we cannot speak of one `Nicene' theology either, in 325 or in 381. The second part of the book offers an account of the theological practices and assumptions within which pro-Nicene theologians assumed their short formulae and creeds were to be understood. Ayres also argues that there is no fundamental division between eastern and western trinitarian theologies at the end of the fourth century. The last section of the book challenges modern post-Hegelian trinitarian theology to engage with Nicaea more deeply.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ayres, Lewis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- I. Towards a Controversy

- 1: Points of Departure

- 2: Theological Trajectories in the Early Fourth Century I

- 3: Theological Trajectories in the Early Fourth Century II

- 4: Confusion and Controversy: AD 325-340

- 5: The Creation of `Arianism': AD 340-350

- II. The Emergence of Pro-Nicene Theology

- 6: Shaping the Alternatives: AD 350-360

- 7: The Beginnings of Rapprochement

- 8: Basil of Caesarea and the Development of Pro-Nicene Theology

- 9: The East from Valens to Theodosius

- 10: Victory and the Struggle for Definition

- III. Understanding Pro-Nicene Theology

- 11: On the Contours of Mystery

- 12: `The First and Brightest Light'

- 13: `Walk Towards Him Shining'

- 14: `On Not Three Gods': Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology

- 15: The Grammar of Augustine's Trinitarian Theology

- 16: In Spite of Hegel, Fire and Sword

- Epilogue: On Teaching the Fourth Century

Über Autor(innen)

Lewis Ayres is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at the Candler School of Theology and the Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University.