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Learning Christ - Ignatius of Antioch and the Mystery of Redemption (Hardcover)
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Learning Christ - Ignatius of Antioch and the Mystery of Redemption (Hardcover)
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For centuries Ignatius of Antioch has been underestimated by his
admirers and vilified by his critics. Scholars tend to view him as
either a careless epistolographer and lesser theologian, or a
manipulative ecclesiastical politician seeking to gain sympathy for
himself and support for his agenda. Critics feel that he departed
dangerously from the pure Pauline gospel of justification by faith
and veered off into ""early Catholicism,"" if not gnosticism.
Learning Christ represents a thorough reevaluation of Ignatius as
author and theologian, demonstrating that his seven authentic
letters present a sophisticated and cohesive vision of the economy
of redemption. Gregory Vall argues that Ignatius's thought
represents a vital synthesis of Pauline, Johannine, and Matthean
perspectives while anticipating important elements of later
patristic theology. Topics treated in this volume include
Ignatius's soteriological anthropology, his Christology and nascent
Trinitarianism, his nuanced understanding of the relationship
between Judaism and Christianity, and his ecclesiology and
eschatology. Methodologically, Learning Christ can be situated
among recent attempts to recover a genuinely theological approach
to early Christian texts within the perspective opened by modern
historical-critical research. It aims to interpret Ignatius's
thought in a manner that is authentically rooted in the
communicative intention embodied in the text of his letters, while
avoiding the historicist reduction of their significance to its
hypothetically reconstituted contextual meaning. Vall argues that
we can learn a great deal from Ignatius both about the content of
revealed truth and about how to do theology.
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