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Letters 51-110 - Vol. 77 (Paperback)
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Letters 51-110 - Vol. 77 (Paperback)
Series: Fathers of the Church Series
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This second and final volume of the letters of St. Cyril, Patriarch
of Alexandria (412-444), takes up in medias res the great
Christological controversy about the term Theotokos and the events
which lead up to its resolution at the Council of Ephesus in 431.
Defending the doctrines of the Trinity and the Person of Christ in
the Alexandrian tradition of St. Athanasius these letters reveal
Cyril's brilliant theological acumen and deep personal faith.
Letters 51 to 61 are concerned with the question of John of Antioch
and the bishops who, with him, supported Nestorius in the tradion
of the Antiochene School, set up a rival council, and this went so
far as even to depose Cyril. Of this group Letters 50 and 55 are
exceptional for their theological content. Letter 66 to 74 deal
with the extension of the Nestorian heresy by eastern bishops who,
although they agreed to the deposition of Nestorius and the
anathemas against him, began to uphold the ideas of his teachers
Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia. Letters 77 to 79 and
85 are purely administrative and, as such, are noteworthy examples
of Cyril's patriarchy. Letter 89, an exegetic explanation of the
punishment of Cain, is a partial copy of letter 260 of St. Basil.
Three letters are spurious; 86 and 87, which deal with the date of
Easter, and 88, a supposed letter from Hypatia to Cyril. Perhaps
the most unusual letter is 96, a breve or catalog of treasures sent
from Alexandria as bribes to the imperial court at Constantinople,
not an uncommon practice it would seem since Cyril writes about it
quite openly. The translator has appended five letters to the
corpus. The first four are addressed to Cyril and are important for
the light they shed on the Nestorian controversy. The last, an
alternate version of letter 85 translated from the Latin text,
contains a response to the synod at Carthage concerning the date of
Easter, different in the two versions.
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