Das Konzil von Chalcedon und die Kirche
Das Konzil von Chalcedon und die Kirche

Author: Sandra Leuenberger-Wenger

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-07-01

Total Pages: 635

ISBN-13: 9004406581

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In Das Konzil von Chalcedon und die Kirche Sandra Leuenberger-Wenger offers a new perspective on the council of Chalcedon, analyzing the rich material of its acts. Leuenberger-Wenger shows the entanglement of the Christological debate with other fields of conflict concerning the status and authority of different episcopal sees and of monasticism in the church. The study emphasizes the importance of the traditionally neglected second part of the council with its canons and resolutions and argues that these regulations had a deep impact on the structures of the church as well as on the reception of the council and its definition of faith. The evaluation of a wide range of sources places the refusal of the definition of faith in the broader context of the transformation processes of the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity and the rejection of an increasingly institutionalized Byzantine Church. In Das Konzil von Chalcedon und die Kirche entwirft Sandra Leuenberger-Wenger anhand der Konzilsakten ein neues Bild von der Bedeutung dieses Konzils für die Kirche. Sie zeigt die Verknüpfung des christologischen Streits mit weiteren kirchlichen Konfliktfeldern wie dem Status und der Autorität einzelner Bischofssitze und des Mönchtums. Die Untersuchung betont die Bedeutung des zweiten Konzilsteils für die Entwicklung der Kirche und macht deutlich, wie die Regulierungen auf kirchenpolitischer und struktureller Ebene die Rezeption des Konzils entscheidend mitbestimmten. Die Auswertung eines breiten Quellenmaterials verortet das Konzil und seine schwierige Rezeption in den spätantiken Transformationsprozessen des Römischen Reichs im Übergang zum Mittelalter und deutet die Konflikte um die Glaubensdefinition im Horizont der umfassenderen Ablehnung einer zunehmend institutionalisierten byzantinischen Reichskirche.

Das Konzil von Chalcedon
Das Konzil von Chalcedon

Author: Sascha Pracher

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2012-12-19

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 3656336342

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Theologie - Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Note: 1, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Kirchengeschichte - othodoxe Kirche), Veranstaltung: Seminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Recherchiert man den Begriff „Chalcedon“, erhält man zwei Antworten. Zum einen eine geographische Einordnung: „Am asiatischen Ufer des Bosporus gelegene Stadt, heute-Stadtteil von Istanbul“, zum anderen das Stichwort „Konzil von Chalcedon.“ Was aber verbirgt sich hinter diesem Ausdruck „Konzil von Chalcedon“? Bei der Suche im Internet wird das Konzil von Chalcedon folgendermaßen charakterisiert: „Es war vielleicht die bedeutendste Kirchenversammlung der Alten Kirche. Zugleich markierte die Synode einen tiefen Einschnitt in der Kirchen-und Theologiegeschichte.“ Deutlich wird dabei, dass es sich bei dem Konzil von Chalcedon um einen sehr entscheidenden Punkt in der Kirchen-und Theologiegeschichte handelt. Ob es sich nun dem Namen nach um ein Konzil oder der Beschreibung nach um eine Synode handelt bleibt dabei fraglich. Grillmeiers kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass Chalcedon eine entscheidende Rolle gespielt hat. Die Frage, ob es sich bei Chalcedon um ein Konzil oder um eine Synode handelt lässt sich meines Erachtens eindeutig beantworten. Gahbauer schreibt: „In der Alten Kirche werden die Begriffe Synode und Konzil nicht immer deutlich voneinander geschieden.“ Dennoch lässt sich Chalcedon eindeutig zuordnen. „Die höchste Bedeutung kommt schließlich der synodus universalis ecclessiae (...), das heißt dem ökumenischen Konzil zu.“ Chalcedon wird als das vierte ökumenische Konzil bezeichnet. An dieser Stelle muss kurz darauf verwiesen werden, dass der Begriff „ökumenisch“ nicht im Sinne des in Deutschland gebräuchlichen „ökumenisch“- also evangelisch/katholisch zu verstehen ist. Die Besonderheiten des ökumenischen Konzils sind, dass es unter kaiserlicher Autorität tagt, Beschlüsse kaiserlicher Anordnung bedürfen und dessen Beschlüsse als unwiderruflich gelten. Gerade für die Orthodoxie, sowohl die östlich Orthodoxen Kirchen, als auch die orientalisch Orthodoxen, haben die ökumenischen Konzilien eine besondere Bedeutung, denn nach Heiler gilt: „Maßstab der Orthodoxie ist die Anerkennung der ökumenischen Konzilien.“

God Sent His Son
God Sent His Son

Author: Christoph Schoenborn

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 2010-09-29

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1681492113

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In this work of Christology, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, a world-renowned theologian, takes as his starting point the Apostle Paul's statement, "But when the time had fully come, God sent for his Son, born of woman, born under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons" (Gal 4:4-5). Based on many years of lecturing on Christology, Cardinal Schönborn's work moves from the solid conviction of faith that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah of Israel, the Son of the Living God, through the development of the Church's understanding of this truth, to the consideration of contemporary issues and the views of various modern theologians. Cardinal Schönborn sees Christology as based on the original Illumination granted by the Father in manifesting his Son, which divides, as if through a prism, into a rainbow of Christological themes. "Christology," he writes, "in every phase of its development, follows its path by this light: ಘin thy light do we see light' (Ps 36:10)." Christology is always faith seeking understanding-trying to understand that to which the believer already says, "Yes!" God Sent His Son has the comprehensiveness and scholarly precision of a textbook but the insights and personal relevance of a work of spirituality. It carefully explores ancient and medieval.

Crisis Management in Late Antiquity (410-590 CE)
Crisis Management in Late Antiquity (410-590 CE)

Author: Pauline Allen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-08-08

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 900425482X

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Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil investigate crisis management as conducted by the increasingly important episcopal class in the 5th and 6th centuries. Their basic source is the neglected corpus of bishops’ letters in Greek and Latin, the letter being the most significant mode of communication and information-transfer in the period from 410 to 590 CE. The volume brings together into a wider setting a wealth of previous international research on episcopal strategies for dealing with crises of various kinds. Six broad categories of crisis are identified and analysed: population displacement, natural disasters, religious disputes and religious violence, social abuses and the breakdown of the structures of dependence. Individual case-studies of episcopal management are provided for each of these categories. This is the first comprehensive treatment of crisis management in the late-antique world, and the first survey of episcopal letter-writing across the later Roman empire.

Encyclopedia of Christian Theology
Encyclopedia of Christian Theology

Author: Jean-Yves Lacoste

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-27

Total Pages: 3974

ISBN-13: 1135456410

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The Encyclopedia of Christian Theology, translated from the French Dictionnaire Critique de Théologie 2nd Edition, features over 530 entries, contributed by 250 scholars from fifthteen different countries. Alphabetically arranged entries provide the reader a critical overview of the main theological questions and related topics, including concepts, events, councils, theologians, philosophers, movements, and more. Hailed as a "masterpiece of scholarship," this reference work will be of great interest and use for scholars, students of religion and theology as well as general readers.

The Trinity and the Bible
The Trinity and the Bible

Author: J. Alexander Rutherford

Publisher: Teleioteti

Published: 2022-10-14

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1989560520

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To write on the Trinity is to enter a minefield of presuppositions-presuppositions of theology, exegesis, grammar, logic, philosophy, etc. However, at the heart of Godʹs self-revelation in the Bible is God's tri-unity, that God is three, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Confessional Christians would identify this claim, that God is Triune, as a necessary condition of true Christian faith. To be Christian is to follow Christ who is the 2nd person of the Trinity. Yet, does following this Christ mean following the 2nd hypostasis who is eternally begotten of the Father, sharing with him his ousia? That is a more difficult question, isn't it? Indeed, many faithful men and women in my life could not make heads or tails of the latter claim while worshipping and following the Christ of the former. So, what does it mean to be Trinitarian? This book is about that question, what does it mean to be a Christian who worships a triune God, to be ʺTrinitarianʺ? Is the Trinity a doctrine, arrived at through second-order reflection on the Biblical data several hundred years after the canon closed, or is it something else? Is it, perhaps, a presupposition about the reality of God that has shaped the Christain imagination, that has shaped the framework Christians bring to the world, throughout created history?

Der Einheitsbegriff als Kohärenzprinzip bei Maximus Confessor
Der Einheitsbegriff als Kohärenzprinzip bei Maximus Confessor

Author: Jonathan Bieler

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-08-05

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 9004399755

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In The Concept of Unity as the Principle of Coherence in Maximus Confessor Jonathan Bieler lays out the importance of the concepts of transcendent divine unity, goodness and truth for understanding the coherence of the whole of Maximus’ thought, which brings together theology, anthropology and Christology into a unified vision that is based on an analogy between creator and creation. Interpreting the concepts of Maximus’ thought remains a contentious subject in Maximian scholarship. By evaluating the interior coherence and historical situation of Maximus’ thought in general and by studying the influence of Ps-Dionysius the Areopagite’s methodology on Maximus’ Christology in particular the author shows the context in which Maximus’ well-known conceptual distinctions can be understood in a helpful way. Jonathan Bieler erläutert in Der Einheitsbegriff als Kohärenzprinzip bei Maximus Confessor die zentrale Rolle der Begriffe der göttlichen Einheit, Güte und Wahrheit für ein Verständnis der Kohärenz von Maximus’ Denken, das Gotteslehre, Anthropologie und Christologie zu einer einheitlichen Sicht versammelt, beruhend auf einer Analogie zwischen Schöpfer und Geschöpf. Die Interpretation von Maximus’ Konzepten ist ein umstrittenes Gebiet in der Forschung. Durch eine Auswertung der inneren Kohärenz und der historischen Situation des Maximus und durch eine Untersuchung des Einflusses, den Ps-Dionysius Areopagitas Methodik auf die Christologie des Maximus ausgeübt hat, zeigt der Autor den Kontext auf, in dem Maximus’ begriffliche Unterscheidungen auf eine hilfreiche Weise verstanden werden können.

Christ in Christian tradition.
Christ in Christian tradition.

Author: Alois Grillmeier

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13:

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This text offers a presentation of faith in Jesus Christ as it developed between the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451) and the advance of Islam in the Nile region. The period begins in Alexandria, leading to Ethiopia, where we see an extraordinary example of a synthesis of Judaism and Christianity. The book covers a variety of theological work by poets, exegetes, philosophers and others, offering the reader a vivid picture of the state of Christian faith in the Nile and beyond before the Islamic conquest. Particular attention is paid to Jewish influence in pre-Islamic Arabia and to recent discoveries of literary texts and religious art.

Gregory of Nyssa: Contra Eunomium I
Gregory of Nyssa: Contra Eunomium I

Author: Miguel Brugarolas

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9004377093

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The Contra Eunomium is probably Gregory of Nyssa’s most challenging work with regards to his theological and philosophical thought, and one that continues to draw the deeper attention of contemporary scholars. This volume devoted to Contra Eunomium I constitutes, in a certain way, a new version of the Proceedings of the 6th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (1988). It offers a revised English translation of Contra Eunomium I by S. G. Hall, accompanied by twenty-two supporting studies from a broad range of philological, philosophical, and theological perspectives. These studies include a selection of the most relevant papers of the 1988 Proceedings, supplemented with new contributions that explore relevant issues developed by contemporary research.

Asceticism and Christological Controversy in Fifth-Century Palestine
Asceticism and Christological Controversy in Fifth-Century Palestine

Author: Cornelia B. Horn

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2006-03-09

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 0199277532

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The Life of Peter the Iberian by John Rufus records the ascetic struggle of a fifth-century anti-Chalcedonian bishop of Mayyuma, Palestine. Cornelia Horn presents a historical-critical study of the only substantial anti-Chalcedonian witness to the history of the conflict in Palestine and analyses the formative period of fifth-century anti-Chalcedonian hierarchy, theology, and its ascetic expression. Important themes are pilgrimage as an ascetic ideal and asceticism assource of theological authority. Archaeological data on many places in the Levant and textual sources in Syriac, Coptic, Greek, Armenian, and Georgian are examined. This book contributes to our understanding of the origins of anti-Chalcedonian theology and the influence of asceticism on its development, theChristian topography of the Levant, and the history of the anti-Chalcedonian movement in Palestine.