Demetrios Bathrellos's The Byzantine Christ: Person, Nature, and Will in the PDF

By Demetrios Bathrellos

St Maximus the Confessor is likely one of the giants of Christian theology. His doctrine of 2 wills gave the ultimate form to old Christology and used to be ratified by means of the 6th Ecumenical Council in advert 681. This learn throws new gentle upon some of the most attention-grabbing sessions of historic and systematic theology. Its concentration is the 7th century, the century that observed the swift enlargement of Islam, and the Empire's failed try and continue a lot of its south-eastern provinces
by inventing and selling the heresy of Monothelitism (only one will in Christ) as a bridge among the Byzantine Church and the anti-Chalcedonian church buildings which prevailed in a few of these areas.

From the perspective of systematic theology, the publication examines the that means of the phrases person/hypostasis, nature/essence, and should within the context of Christology after the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451), with targeted connection with Maximus. It additionally explores the advanced query of the human will of Jesus Christ and its relation to his individual and natures. The Byzantine Christ complements our knowing of jap Orthodox theology and of a few of the explanations that also separate it either from
Western Christianity and from the so-called Oriental Orthodox Churches.

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