"The Fertile Crescent" |
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Introduction |
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PART ONE: CHRISTOLOGY IN PALESTINE AFTER CHALCEDON UNTIL THE RISE OF ISLAM |
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CHAPTER ONE: Palestine and its Christological Groupings after 451 |
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I. Jerusalem as Episcopal See and patriarchate |
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II. The Country and its Major Centres |
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III. Attitude of the Palestinian Monastics to Chalcedon (451-c.565) |
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CHAPTER TWO: The Concrete Faith in Christ of the Palestinian Church |
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I. The 'Solemn Mystery Play'- The Kerygma of Jerusalem |
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II. Three Great Monastic Fathers in Judea and their Christology |
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III. The Academics of Gaza and their Understanding of Christ |
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IV. The Christological Spirituality of the Ascetics of Gaza |
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V. The Christology of the Monks in the Sinai Region |
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CHAPTER THREE: A Synthesis of Palestinian Christology According to the History of Concepts and Formulas: Pamphilius the Theologian |
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I. Pamphilius the Man and his Work |
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II. Christology as Depicted in the Solutio of Pamphilius |
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III. The Neo-Chalcedonianism of Pamphilius |
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CHAPTER FOUR: Retrospect and Prospect |
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I. The Christological Profile of the Jerusalem Patriarchate |
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II. John of Scythopolis, Scholiast and Neo- Chalcedonian |
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III. John IV of Jerusalem and Relations with the Caucasian Churches |
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PART TWO: CHRISTOLOGY IN THE PATRIARCHATE OF ANTIOCH AFTER 451 TO THE END OF THE SIXTH CENTURY |
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SECTION ONE: The Patriarchate of Antioch in its Context |
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CHAPTER ONE: Extent and Organization of the Patriarchate of Antioch |
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I. On the External Organization |
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II Some Factors in the Historical Development of the Organization of the Patriarchate of Antioch |
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CHAPTER TWO: The Hierarchial Split of the Patriarchate of Antioch |
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I. Preliminary Remark |
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II. Establishment and Collapse of the Severan Hierarchy in the Patriarchate of Antioch |
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III. The Efforts of the Bishops John of Tella and John of Hephaistos |
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IV. The Establishment of the Anti-Chalcedonian Hierarchy by Jacob Baradeus |
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CHAPTER THREE: One Pre- Islamic Christianity among the Arabs in the Sphere of Influence of the Patriarchate of Antioch |
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I. Arabs with Roman Citizenship |
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II. The Nomads |
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CHAPTER FOUR: The 'School of Antioch' and its Theological School in the Area of the Patriarchate of Antioch |
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I. The 'School of Antioch' and its Theology |
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II. The School of Edessa |
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III. The School of Nisibis |
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IV. The "Nestorian' Educational Movement |
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CHAPTER FIVE: The Persian Debater Simeon of Beth Arsam and his Anti-Nestorian Position |
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I. The Persian Debater |
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II. The Letter on 'Nestorianism' |
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III. The Dogmatic Perspective of the Letter |
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CHAPTER SIX: The Tritheist Controversy in the Sixth Century and its Importance in Syriac Christology |
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I. On the Historical Development of Tritheism in Syria |
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II. The Theological Statement of the Tritheists |
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CHAPTER SEVEN: The Christological Positions of the Patriarchs occupying the Throne of Antioch |
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I. The Chalcedonian Period |
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II. The Turmoil around the Throne of Antioch. The Struggle for the Theopaschite Addition to the Trisagion: Peter the Fuller of Chalcedonian Patriarchs |
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III. Battle for the Doctrine of Two Natures and Chalcedon under |
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IV. The Chalcedonian Restoration after Severus of Antioch |
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SECTION TWO: Greek Theology |
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CHAPTER ONE: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite |
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I. Dionysius' Approach to the Theological Reflection |
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II. Jesus Christ in the Dionysian Universe and its History |
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III. Jesus in the Liturgy and Sacraments of the Church |
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IV. Dionysius' Image of Christ |
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V. Final Remarks on Dionysius' Christology |
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CHAPTER TWO: Ephrem of Antioch and His Neo- Chalcedonism |
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I. His Personality and Actions |
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II. The Christological Position of Ephrem |
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CHAPTER THREE: Anastasius, 'the Great Bishop of Antioch' |
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I. Life and Works |
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II. Christological Positions in the Works of Anatasius |
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CHAPTER FOUR: A Christological Controversy among the Severans at the End of the Sixth Century- The Conversion of Probus anf John Barbur to Chalcedonism |
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I. The Fragmentation of the Anti- Chalcedonians in the Second Half of the Sixth Century |
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II . The Report of Dionysius of Tell-Mahre |
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III. The Probus Dossier |
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IV. The Sophist Stephen of Alexandria |
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V. Concluding Remarks. |
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SECTION THREE: Syriac Theology |
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Introduction: On Syriac Christology before Chalcedon |
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A Retrospect: Christological Problems and Basic Ideas |
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CHAPTER ONE: The Christology of Jacob of Sarug |
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I. Jacob's Christology: History of Research |
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II. The Christology of the Letters |
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III. The Christology og the Mimre |
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IV. Conclusion |
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CHAPTER TWO: The Christology of Philoxenus of Mabbug |
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I. The Basic Structure: The Relationship Between the Divine Nature and the Economy of Salvation |
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II. Christology, Trinity, and the Divine Becoming |
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III. The Reality of the Oikonomia |
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IV. The Union of Divinity and Humanity in Christ |
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V. Christology and Soteriology |
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VI. Christology and Knowledge |
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VII. Conclusion. |
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CHAPTER THREE: From the Controversy on 'Unus ex Triniate passus est': The Prostest of Habib against Philoxenus' Epistula dogmatica to the Monks |
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I. Indotruction |
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II. Habib's Mamlela or Treatise in Philoxenus' Two Refutations |
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III. On Some Aspects of Habib's Treatise |
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Retrospect and Prospect |
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