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Cyril of Alexandria's Trinitarian Theology of Scripture (Hardcover)
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Cyril of Alexandria's Trinitarian Theology of Scripture (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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More exegetical literature survives from the hand of Cyril of
Alexandria than nearly any other Greek patristic author, yet this
sizable body of work has scarcely received the degree of attention
it deserves. In this work, Matthew R. Crawford reconstructs the
intellectual context that gave rise to this literary output and
highlights Cyril's Trinitarian theology, received as an inheritance
from the fourth century, as the most important defining factor.
Cyril's appropriation of pro-Nicene Trinitarianism is evident in
both of his theology of revelation and his theology of exegesis,
the two foci that comprise his doctrine of Scripture. Revelation,
in his understanding, proceeds from the Father, through the Son,
and in the Spirit, following the order of Trinitarian relations.
Moreover, this pattern applies to the inspiration of Scripture as
well, insofar as inspiration occurs when the Son indwells human
authors by the Spirit and speaks the words of the Father. Although
Cyril's interpretation of revelation may consequently be called
'Trinitarian', it is also resolutely Christological, since the
divine and incarnate Son functions as the central content and
mediator of all divine unveiling. Corresponding to this divine
movement towards humanity in revelation is humanity's appropriation
of divine life according to the reverse pattern-in the Spirit,
through the Son, unto the Father. Applied to exegesis, this
Trinitarian pattern implies that the Spirit directs the reader of
Scripture to a Christological interpretation of the text, through
which the believer beholds the incarnate Son, the exemplar of
virtue and the perfect image of the Father, and accordingly
advances in both virtue and knowledge. This process continues until
the final eschatological vision when the types and riddles of
Scripture will be done away with in light of the overwhelming
clarity of the Christologically-mediated Trinitarian vision.
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