Alexander of Alexandria and the Homoousion.
Abstract This paper responds to recent publications which play down the role of Bishop Alexander of Alexandria in securing the adoption of the term Homoousion at the Nicene Council of 325. It argues that, while the term is not employed in any surviving work from his hand, there is some reason to bel...
| Publicado en: | Vigiliae Christianae Vol. 66; no. 5; pp. 482 - 503 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2012
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=83183042&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 83183042 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00426032 CI5 jtl: Vigiliae Christianae issn: 00426032 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: 2012 vid: 66 iid: 5 pid: 639 pub: Brill Academic Publishers artinfo: ui: 83183042 10.1163/157007212X613410 ppf: 482 ppct: 21 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 517KB tig: atl: Alexander of Alexandria and the Homoousion. aug: au: Edwards, Mark affil: Christ Church Oxford, OX1 1DP United Kingdom, Email: mark.edwards@chch.ox.ac.uk, URL: http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink su: Alexander, Saint, Bishop of Alexandria, d. 326 Trinity Publications Testimony (Theory of knowledge) Creeds (Religion) Council of Nicaea (1st : 325) Philostorgius sug: subj: Alexander, Saint, Bishop of Alexandria, d. 326 Trinity Publications Testimony (Theory of knowledge) Creeds (Religion) Council of Nicaea (1st : 325) Philostorgius keyword: Alexander of Alexandria Arius creed Eusebius of Nicomedia Homoousion Nicaea ab: Abstract This paper responds to recent publications which play down the role of Bishop Alexander of Alexandria in securing the adoption of the term Homoousion at the Nicene Council of 325. It argues that, while the term is not employed in any surviving work from his hand, there is some reason to believe that he sanctioned the use of it by his colleagues. There is no doubt that before the Council he had already declared the Son to be 'from the Father's essence', and it is all but certain that when this phrase was challenged, together with the Homoousion at Nicaea, it was he who produced a conciliatory exegesis of both innovations, relying on the theology that had already been expounded in his letters Philostorgius' story that he and Hosius of Cordoba had concerted a plan to introduce the Homoousion is not implausible, and it should not be assumed that the author of an anonymous life of Constantine, which corroborates this narrative, is merely paraphrasing Philostorgius. Their testimony is consistent with that of Ambrose of Milan, who can be shown to have been acquainted both with documents and with witnesses of the proceedings at the Council. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Vigiliae Christianae is the property of Brill Academic Publishers and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Vigiliae Christianae holder: Brill Academic Publishers dt: @attributes: year: 2012 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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