Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian Controversy: The Making of a Saint and of a Heretic - Couverture rigide

Wessel, Susan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199268460 ISBN 13 : 9780199268467

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2004

Synopsis

What were the historical and cultural processes by which Cyril of Alexandria was elevated to canonical status while his opponent, Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, was made into a heretic? In contrast to previous scholarship, Susan Wessel concludes that Cyril's success in being elevated to orthodox status was not simply a political accomplishment based on political alliances he had fashioned as opportunity arose. Nor was it a dogmatic victory, based on the clarity and orthodoxy of Cyril's doctrinal claims. Instead, it was his strategy in identifying himself with the orthodoxy of the former bishop of Alexandria, Athanasius, in his victory over Arianism, in borrowing Athanasius' interpretive methods, and in skilfully using the tropes and figures of the second sophistic that made Cyril a saint in the Greek and Coptic Orthodox Churches.

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À propos de l?auteur

Susan Wessel is Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199268460
• ISBN 13: 9780199268467
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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