ISBN10: 0199212880, ISBN13: 9780199212880, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. This volume of Christ in Christian Tradition continues Alois Cardinal Grillmeier's pioneering work in the field of the early history of Christology. Here the focus is on Christianity in Palestine and Syria (the Fertile Crescent) after the Council of Chalcedon and before the advent of Islam. A consideration underlying the entire book is whether we can speak of a consistent Christology throughout the Christian East before Islam and to what extent theChristian East retained the biblical message of Jesus, despite the various divisions that occurred within its borders. Chapters have been collected, edited, and reworked by Theresia Hainthaler with additionalcontributions from Tanios Bou Mansour and Luise Abramowski.The first part of this volume examines Christology in Palestine from Chalcedon until Islam, including the theology of monks and ascetics, the School of Gaza, and liturgy. The second part is devoted to the Christology in the patriarchate of Antioch from 451 to the end of the sixth century.In 1951 Alois Cardinal Grillmeier (1910-1998) first published Das Konzil von Chalcedon , a workfocused on the pre-Chalcedon period and the events of the Council in 451. The first chapter of this would become the first volume ofChrist in Christian Tradition . The work appeared in English in 1965. In 1986Volume 2/1 appeared with a foreword explaining the author's ...
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