Description
Book SynopsisCyril of Alexandria is one of the major intellectuals of the early Byzantine Christian world. His approach to Christ is at the core of the classical Christian tradition, however, because his works were not translated into English in the post-Reformation environment, the precise implications of his science of Christ have been extensively misunderstood. This work seeks to reposition Cyril in the precise philosophical context to which he belonged, seeking, as he did, for a deliberate bridge-building between ecclesiastical biblical presuppositions and the semantic terms central to the Late Antique philosophical Academy, with which he understands the Church must communicate. This book seeks to lay bare the fundamental philosophical axioms of Cyril's metaphysics of the Incarnation. To illuminate this, it investigates the fifth-century curriculum of metaphysical studies as followed in the academies of both Alexandria and Athens. Common to both Cyril and his Hellene contemporaries are the t
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments – Abbreviations – Introduction – Incarnation, Incomplete Substantial Change, and Unification through Mixture – Incarnation and the Conception of Inherence – Coming-to-Be without Change: Soul Uniting with Body – The Parmenides and the Structure of Cyril’s Metaphysics of the Incarnation – Epilogue – Notes – Bibliography – Name Index – Subject Index.
