Christology and the logic of grace in fifth-century Gaul /
"Scholarly treatments of the ‘Semi-Pelagian Controversy' give very little attention to the connection between Christology and grace in the thought of the fifth-century Gallic writers, but in fact, John Cassian, Vincent of Lérins, Prosper of Aquitaine, and Faustus of Riez all wrote against...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Oxford early Christian studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Scholarly treatments of the ‘Semi-Pelagian Controversy' give very little attention to the connection between Christology and grace in the thought of the fifth-century Gallic writers, but in fact, John Cassian, Vincent of Lérins, Prosper of Aquitaine, and Faustus of Riez all wrote against Nestorianism as well as writing on grace. The southern Gallic writers saw Nestorius as claiming that Christ was a man united to the Word by virtue of his merits. In contrast, these writers insisted, like Augustine, that we must understand Christ as the Word himself who has come down to live as a man for our salvation, and thus the Christology of both Augustine and the Gallic writers was Cyrillian/Chalcedonian, not ‘Antiochene'. But in spite of this similar Christology, the Gallic writers reasoned from Christology to grace differently than Augustine. Beginning with the inability of fallen humanity to accomplish salvation, Augustine reasoned from the Fall to predestination, and then to the particular aspects of grace in the lives of the elect, with little attention to more general effects of the Incarnation for all human beings. In contrast, the Gallic writers reasoned from the Fall to the Incarnation, and on the basis of this reasoning they emphasized the universal effects of the Incarnation on all, as well as the particular effects on individual Christians. The Gallic writers should not be called ‘Semi-Pelagian', because they, like Augustine, stressed the priority of divine grace in salvation. But they secured this priority through their treatment of the Incarnation, not through a particular understanding of predestination"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198936220 0198936222 |