How did the early Church understand the relation between grace, salvation, and the person of Christ? Donald Fairbairn's persuasive study shows that, despite intense theological controversy, there was a very strong consensus in the fifth century about what salvation was and who Christ needed to be in order to save people.
CONTENTS
1 Grace and the central issue of the christological controversy
2 Christ as the uniquely graced man in Theodore and Nestorius
3 Grace as the sharing of divine communion in Cyril's early writings
4 God's own Son as the source of grace in Cyril's later writings
5 Grace as deepening communion with God in Cassian's monastic writings
6 Grace and the Saviour's personal subject in Cassian's De incarnatione Domini
7 Grace and the Logos' double birth in the early Church
Series | Oxford Early Christian Studies |
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