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Tag Archives: Gregory of Nazianzus
To See God Crucified: The Theopaschism of St Gregory Nazianzen
Before there was Jürgen Moltmann and his celebrated book The Crucified God, there was St Gregory the Theologian. Of the early Church Fathers none spoke more directly and more unitively of the death of the eternal Son. The gospel is … Continue reading
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Tagged Beeley, church fathers, Cyril of Alexandria, death of God, Gregory of Nazianzus, theopaschism
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St Gregory the Theologian and the Apollinarian Nonsense
A God-man without a human mind—that appears to have been the view advanced by Apollinarius in the late 4th century. I suppose it makes some kind of sense. If the divine spirit effectively substitutes for the human mind in Jesus … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollinarianism, Apollinaris, Apollinarius, Christology, Gregory of Nazianzus, patristic
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Mixing and Blending: The Orthodox Recipe for Theanthropos
“He comes forth, God with what he assumed, one from two opposites, flesh and spirit, the one deifying and the other deified. O the new mixture! O the paradoxical blending! He who is comes into being, and the uncreated is … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollinarius, Beeley, Christology, Cyril of Alexandria, God-man, Gregory of Nazianzus, Theanthropos, unity of Christ
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The Unitive Christology of St Gregory the Theologian
The christology of St Gregory the Theologian, writes Christopher Beeley, “remains one of the great theological achievements of Christian tradition.”1 One is struck by how Gregory anticipates the christology of St Cyril of Alexandria. Here is no God dressed in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cappadocians, Christology, Christopher Beeley, Diodore, Gregory of Nazianzus, Nestorianism
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Apollinarius and the Truncated Humanity of Christ
Virtually all I know about Apollinaris of Laodicea is that his heresy elicited a memorable response from St Gregory the Theologian: “What has not been assumed has not been healed.” So in preparation for reading the letters of Gregory to … Continue reading
Mary Prokathartheisa: A Patristic Antecedent to the Immaculate Conception
In his monograph Immaculate Conception, Fr Christiaan Kappes advances a controversial thesis: invoking prokathartheisa (prepurified) as a title for the Theotokos, “the Greek Fathers—in the line of the Nazianzen until the introduction of Byzantine Thomism in the 14th century—never vacillated … Continue reading
St Basil of Caesarea, Pneumatomachoi, and the Divinity of the Holy Spirit
“I neither chose to name the Holy Spirit God nor dare to call him a creature,” declared Eustathius of Sebaste in response to the Neo-Arian denial of the divinity of the Holy Spirit. At first glance, Eustathius’s ambivalence seems reasonable. … Continue reading
Mary Prokathartheisa
In his monograph Immaculate Conception, Fr Christiaan Kappes advances a controversial thesis: invoking prokathartheisa (prepurified) as a title for the Theotokos, “the Greek Fathers—in the line of the Nazianzen until the introduction of Byzantine Thomism in the 14th century—never vacillated about … Continue reading