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The Soteriology of Leo the Great (Hardcover, New)
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The Soteriology of Leo the Great (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Theological Monographs
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Leo the Great was the beneficiary of the consolidation of the power
of the papacy in Rome and the Christianization of the city over the
course of the preceding century. In this carefully nuanced study,
Bernard Green demonstrates the influences at work on this
celebrated pope's development as a theological thinker, including
two of the most renowned theological names of the period, Ambrose
of Milan and Augustine of Hippo.
Green charts Leo's theological journey from his first encounters
with the Pelagian and Nestorian controversies, where he engaged
Cassian as an advisor. Leo took an admiring though limited view of
Cyril of Alexandria but misunderstood the weaknesses in Nestorius'
thought. As pope, Leo preached a civic Christianity, accessible to
all citizens, baptising the virtues of the classical and civic
past.
The study then examines Leo's recently dated sermons and reveals
the evolution of his thought as he worked out a soteriology that
gave full value to both the divinity and humanity of Christ,
especially in reaction to Manichaeism. In the crisis that led to
Chalcedon, Leo's earlier misunderstanding of Nestorius affected the
content of his Tome, which was atypical of the Christology and
soteriology he had developed in his earlier preaching. Green
persuasively concludes that its emphasis on the distinction of the
two natures was an uncharacteristic attempt to respond to both
Eutyches and Nestorius, as this pope understood them. In the light
of Chalcedon, Leo produced a revised statement of Christology, the
Letter to the Palestinian monks, which is both more accomplished
and better aligned with his characteristic thought.
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