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Eranistes (Hardcover)
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Eranistes (Hardcover)
Series: Fathers of the Church Series, v. 106
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This translation of a major document in patristic Christology, the
first translation since the 19th century, is based on the modern
critical edition of Theodoret's Greek text. Theodoret was a 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 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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