Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian Controversy
The Making of a Saint and of a Heretic
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 October 2004
- ISBN 9780199268467
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages380 pages
- Size 224x146x26 mm
- Weight 633 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Susan Wessel recounts the historical and cultural process by which Cyril of Alexandria was elevated to canonical status while his opponent, Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, was turned into a heretic. The associated religious controversy was to result in a permenent schism in the Eastern Churches. Wessel argues that it was Cyril's mastery of rhetoric and ecclesiastical politics alike which ensured his victory over his adversary.
MoreLong description:
What were the historical and cultural processes by which Cyril of Alexandria was elevated to canonical status while his opponent, Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, was made into a heretic? In contrast to previous scholarship, Susan Wessel concludes that Cyril's success in being elevated to orthodox status was not simply a political accomplishment based on political alliances he had fashioned as opportunity arose. Nor was it a dogmatic victory, based on the clarity and orthodoxy of Cyril's doctrinal claims. Instead, it was his strategy in identifying himself with the orthodoxy of the former bishop of Alexandria, Athanasius, in his victory over Arianism, in borrowing Athanasius' interpretive methods, and in skilfully using the tropes and figures of the second sophistic that made Cyril a saint in the Greek and Coptic Orthodox Churches.
Susan Wessel has produced a learned and exciting book, that adds much to our knowledge of the character and purpose of these significant theorists of the fifth century; and the volume is a worthy addition to the excellent series of Oxford Early Christian Studies.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I. The Tapestry of Cyril's Episcopacy from Egypt to the Imperial City
Confrontation in the Early Episcopacy
Political Alliance and the Onset of Controversy
The Reception of Nicaea
The Meeting of the Council
II. The Rhetoric of the Nestorian Debates
Rhetorical Style and Method in the Conciliar Homilies of Cyril
The Rhetorical and Interpretive Method of Nestorius
From a Tentative Resolution to the Renewal of Controversy (431 to 451 AD)
Epilogue
