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Early Syriac Theology - With Special Reference to the Maronite Tradition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Early Syriac Theology - With Special Reference to the Maronite Tradition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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For St. Ephrem of Syria (d. 373) and Jacob of Serugh (d. 521), God
is utterly mysterious, yet He is present in all that He has
created. The kenosis (self-emptying) of the Word of God is found
not only in the human nature of Christ, but in the finite words of
Sacred Scripture. In this action, the Divine makes itself
accessible to human beings. The triple descent of the Son of God
into the womb of Mary, the Jordan River at his baptism, and into
sheol at his death, were actions directed both to redemption and
divinization. Ephrem and Jacob employed a system of types and
antitypes used in Sacred Scripture to demonstrate the sacraments as
extensions of Christ's actions through history. St. Ephrem, who was
proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XV, and Jacob of
Serugh were two of the earliest and most important representatives
of the theological world-view of the Syriac church. Much of their
work was in the form of hymns and metrical homilies, using poetry
to express theology. In Early Syriac Theology, Chorbishop Seely
Joseph Beggiani strives to present their insights in a systematic
form according to headings used in western treatises, while not
undermining the originality and cohesiveness of their thought. The
material is organized under the themes of the hiddenness of God,
creation and sin, revelation, incarnation, redemption, divinization
and the Holy Spirit, the Church, Mary, the mysteries of initiation,
eschatology and faith. Additionally, the book highlights the fact
that the liturgical tradition of the Maronite church, one of the
Syriac churches, is consistently and pervasively a living
expression of the theology of these two Syriac church fathers.
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