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The Case Against Diodore and Theodore - Texts and their Contexts (Paperback)
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The Case Against Diodore and Theodore - Texts and their Contexts (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Texts
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This is a landmark work, providing the first complete collection of
the remaining excerpts from the writings of Diodore of Tarsus and
Theodore of Mopsuestia together with a ground-breaking study of the
controversy regarding the person of Christ that raged from the
fourth to the sixth century, and which still divides the Christian
Church. Destroyed after their condemnation, all that remains of the
dogmatic writings of Diodore and Theodore are the passages quoted
by their supporters and opponents. John Behr brings together all
these excerpts, from the time of Theodore's death until his
condemnation at the Second Council of Constantinople (553)-
including newly-edited Syriac texts (from florilegium in Cod. Add.
12156, and the fragmentary remains of Theodore's On the Incarnation
in Cod. Add. 14669) and many translated for the first time-and
examines their interrelationship, to determine who was borrowing
from whom, locating the source of the polemic with Cyril of
Alexandria. On the basis of this textual work, Behr presents a
historical and theological analysis that completely revises the
picture of these 'Antiochenes' and the controversy regarding them.
Twentieth-century scholarship often found these two 'Antiochenes'
sympathetic characters for their aversion to allegory and their
concern for the 'historical Jesus', and regarded their condemnation
as an unfortunate incident motivated by desire for retaliation
amidst 'Neo-Chalcedonian' advances in Christology. This study shows
how, grounded in the ecclesial and theological strife that had
already beset Antioch for over a century, Diodore and Theodore, in
opposition to Julian the Apostate and Apollinarius, were led to
separate the New Testament from the Old and 'the man' from the Word
of God, resulting in a very limited understanding of Incarnation
and circumscribing the importance of the Passion. The result is a
comprehensive and cogent account of the controversy, both
Christological and exegetical together, of the early fifth century,
the way it stemmed from earlier tensions and continued through the
Councils of Ephesus, Chalcedon, and Constantinople II.
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