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'For Us and For Our Salvation': The 'Christological' Councils and Trinitarian Anthropology

Declan O'Byrne

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Description:How does the Trinity illuminate our understanding of humanity?This study takes up the question of the dogmatic foundations for a ‘trinitarian’ anthropology, and argues that this foundation is found in the teaching of the so-called ‘Christological’ Councils: Ephesus (431), Chalcedon (451), Constantinople II (553) and Constantinople III (680-1). Recent patristic scholarship has renewed our understanding of the theological motivations of the principal protagonists in the debates behind these Councils. One important result of such scholarship is a renewed focus of the soteriological motivations as key to understanding the teaching of these Councils. The author brings this result into dialogue with contemporary theology’s desire to retrieve the trinitarian dimensions of theological discourse, arguing that soteriology rather than revelation should be recognized as primary.Salvation is human participation in the trinitarian life. This participation is made possible, not so much through the revelation that God is Trinity, but through the economy of salvation culminating in the Incarnation and Resurrection of Jesus. Far from relativizing the humanity of Jesus in favour of his divinity, as is often suspected, these Councils make Jesus’ humanity the basis for the Christian understanding of humanity as such.The author argues that any attempt to relate the Trinity to theological anthropology must take its cues not from theological reflection on the Trinity in se, but from the trinitarian shape of the economy of salvation; not from theologia, but from oikonomia.Declan O’Byrne was born in Dublin, Ireland. He completed his STL in Systematic Theology at the Milltown Institute of Philosophy and Theology, and his doctorate in Systematic Theology at the Mater Dei Institute of Education (Dublin City University). He is the author of Spirit Christology and Trinity in the Theology of David Coffey (Lang: 2010). He taught at Tangaza and Hekima Colleges (Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi), and is currently teaching at Sophia University Institute (Loppiano, Florence) and at the Pontifical Urbaniana University (Rome).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 'For Us and For Our Salvation': The 'Christological' Councils and Trinitarian Anthropology. To get started finding 'For Us and For Our Salvation': The 'Christological' Councils and Trinitarian Anthropology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 213

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Urbiana University Press

Release: 2018

ISBN: 8840190181

Description: How does the Trinity illuminate our understanding of humanity?This study takes up the question of the dogmatic foundations for a ‘trinitarian’ anthropology, and argues that this foundation is found in the teaching of the so-called ‘Christological’ Councils: Ephesus (431), Chalcedon (451), Constantinople II (553) and Constantinople III (680-1). Recent patristic scholarship has renewed our understanding of the theological motivations of the principal protagonists in the debates behind these Councils. One important result of such scholarship is a renewed focus of the soteriological motivations as key to understanding the teaching of these Councils. The author brings this result into dialogue with contemporary theology’s desire to retrieve the trinitarian dimensions of theological discourse, arguing that soteriology rather than revelation should be recognized as primary.Salvation is human participation in the trinitarian life. This participation is made possible, not so much through the revelation that God is Trinity, but through the economy of salvation culminating in the Incarnation and Resurrection of Jesus. Far from relativizing the humanity of Jesus in favour of his divinity, as is often suspected, these Councils make Jesus’ humanity the basis for the Christian understanding of humanity as such.The author argues that any attempt to relate the Trinity to theological anthropology must take its cues not from theological reflection on the Trinity in se, but from the trinitarian shape of the economy of salvation; not from theologia, but from oikonomia.Declan O’Byrne was born in Dublin, Ireland. He completed his STL in Systematic Theology at the Milltown Institute of Philosophy and Theology, and his doctorate in Systematic Theology at the Mater Dei Institute of Education (Dublin City University). He is the author of Spirit Christology and Trinity in the Theology of David Coffey (Lang: 2010). He taught at Tangaza and Hekima Colleges (Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi), and is currently teaching at Sophia University Institute (Loppiano, Florence) and at the Pontifical Urbaniana University (Rome).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 'For Us and For Our Salvation': The 'Christological' Councils and Trinitarian Anthropology. To get started finding 'For Us and For Our Salvation': The 'Christological' Councils and Trinitarian Anthropology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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