Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian controversy : the making of a saint and of a heretic /

Main Author: Wessel, Susan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series:Oxford early Christian studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction I. The Tapestry of Cyrilʹs Episcopacy from Egypt to the Imperial City
  • 1. Confrontation in the Early Episcopacy
  • 2. Political Alliance and the Onset of Controversy
  • 3. The Reception of Nicaea
  • 4. The Meeting of the Council II. The Rhetoric of the Nestorian Debates
  • 5. Rhetorical Style and Method in the Conciliar Homilies of Cyril
  • 6. The Rhetorical and Interpretive Method of Nestorius
  • 7. From a Tentative Resolution to the Renewal of Controversy (431 to 451 AD) Epilogue