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Eranistes (Paperback)
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Eranistes (Paperback)
Series: The Fathers of the Church
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This translation of a major document in patristic Christology, the
first translation since the nineteenth century, is based upon the
modern critical edition of Theodoret's Greek text. Theodoret was
the leading theologian of his time in the Antiochene tradition, and
in the Eranistes (written in 447) he offers a lengthy exposition of
his Christology, coupled with a refutation of the so-called
Monophysite Christology that, despite its condemnation at the
General Council held at Chalcedon in 451, survives to this day,
having been embraced by several large churches of the East. The
""Monophysite"" controversy caused a tremendous rift between East
and West, and the Eranistes portrays the hostility and the stubborn
resistance to the thought of others that afflicted both sides in
the conflict. The Eranistes is written in the form of three
dialogues between two characters: Orthodox, who represents
Theodoret's thought, and Eranistes, who is presented as a heretic.
In two dialogues Theodoret argues that the Word of God was
immutable and impassible in his divine nature, and that Christ
experienced change and passion only in his human nature. A third
dialogue argues that, in the union of the divinity and humanity in
the one person of the Word incarnate, the natures remained unmixed.
To bolster his arguments Theodoret incorporates extensive
citations, not only from orthodox ecclesiastical writers, but also
from the heretic Apollinarius and the suspected Arian, Eusebius of
Emesa. The texts of many of these citations are known only from the
Eranistes and are therefore important witnesses to the development
of patristic Christology. Critical issues in Antiochene and
Alexandrian Christology are broached by Theodoret in the text and
are further discussed by the translator in the introduction and
notes.
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