Antioch, Nicaea, and the Synthesis of Constantinople : : Revisiting Trajectories in the Fourth-Century Christological Debates.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions Series ; v.200
• Author: Giulea, Dragoş A.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (323 pages)

Dragoș Andrei Giulea delineates a new map of Arian debate's theoretical trajectories, envisioning Constantinople 381 as a synthesis of two theological paradigms generated at the councils of Antioch 268 and Nicaea 325.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Quest for Mapping an Ancient Controversy -- 2 Status quaestionis: Previous Interpretive Categories -- 3 The Main Thesis and Methodological Aspects -- 3.1 Thesis -- 3.2 The Tenets of Faith and the Metaphysical Assumptions Shape a Trajectory's Grammar -- 3.3 The Semantic Assumptions of a Basic Vocabulary Define a Theological Grammar -- 3.4 Metaphysical Assumptions Are More Fundamental Than Hermeneutical Rules -- 3.5 The New Theological Grammar of the Pro-Nicene Synthesis -- Part 1 Reassessing the Map of the Main Trajectories -- Chapter 1 Antioch 268 and the Grammar of Individual Ousia -- 1 Antioch 268: A Forgotten Orthodoxy of the Third Century -- 2 Antioch 268 in Its Eastern Roman Context of the Third Century -- 3 Antioch 268 and Its Legacy in the Antiochene Councils after Nicaea 325 -- 3.1 Antioch 341 -- 3.2 Antioch 345 -- 3.3 Sirmium 351 -- 4 Eusebius of Caesarea: A Theology in the Grammar of Antioch 268 -- 5 Homoiousians: Refining the Grammar of Antioch 268 after Eusebius -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 2 The Arian Trajectory -- 1 Arianism: Another Instantiation of the Grammar of Individual Ousia -- 2 Arius -- 2.1 Continuity with the Antiochene Metaphysical Assumptions -- 2.2 The Separation from the Antiochene Trajectory: The Son as Creature Not Existing before Its Generation -- 2.2.1 Not a Christian Internal Theological Development -- 2.2.2 Not Developed from a Philosophical System -- 2.2.3 Neither from the Early Jewish-Christianity -- 2.2.4 But from His Arguments on the Unique Condition of the Unbegotten First Principle -- 2.2.5 Consequences of Arius's Thesis: Diastema, Unlikeness, the Son Does Not Know the Father -- 3 Eusebius of Nicomedia -- 4 Asterius the Sophist.

5 Aetius: An Anomoian Arian -- 6 Eunomius: A 'Homoian' Arian -- 7 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 3 The Independents and the Mediating Solution of Homoianism -- 1 Eusebius of Emesa -- 2 Cyril of Jerusalem -- 3 Acacius of Caesarea -- 4 The "Blasphemy" of Sirmium 357 -- 5 Homoianism -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 4 Nicaea and the Gradual Articulation of the Grammar of Common Ousia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Alexander of Alexandria -- 3 Eustathius of Antioch -- 4 Marcellus of Ancyra -- 5 Athanasius of Alexandria -- 5.1 The Meanings of οὐσία -- 5.2 Consubstantiality and the 'x from x' Principle -- 5.3 Participation as Divine Generation -- 5.4 Analogies and Immaterial Divine Generation -- 5.5 Trinity as One Plural Divinity: The Identity of Divine Substance -- 5.6 The Identity of the Divine Attributes -- 6 Didymus of Alexandria -- 7 Apollinarius of Laodicea -- 8 Concluding Remarks -- Summary of Part 1 -- Part 2 Reassessing the Pro-Nicene Trajectory as the Synthesis of Antioch and Nicaea -- Prolegomena: The Context of the Early 360s, the Rapprochement, and the Emergence of the Pro-Nicene Trajectory -- Chapter 5 The Early Basil of Caesarea and the Antiochene Legacy -- 1 Introduction: Ep. 361 and the Homoiousians? -- 2 Basil of Caesarea's Ep. 361 and Eun. 1.19: The Quest for the Commonality of the Father and the Son -- 3 Divine Ousia and the Theology of 'Likeness' in Basil's Ep. 361 and Apollinarius's Response in Ep. 362 -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 6 Ousia in Basil of Caesarea's Contra Eunomium: The Turning Point of His Career -- 1 The Ambivalence of Ousia in Contra Eunomium -- 2 Contra Eunomium in Its Sitz im Leben -- 3 Ousia as an Individual Substance in Contra Eunomium: The Continuity with the Antiochene Grammar -- 3.1 Ousia as Individual Substance -- 3.2 Basil's Theology of 'Likeness'.

4 Ousia as Common Substance in Contra Eunomium: Basil's Shift toward the Nicene Grammar -- 5 The Rational Account of Substance and the Divine Commonality -- 5.1 The Search for the Commonality of Substance (τὸ κοινὸν τῆς οὐσίας) -- 5.2 Basil's Doctrine of the Rational Account of Substance (λόγος τῆς οὐσίας) -- 5.3 The 'Bundle Theory' in Contra Eunomium -- 5.4 The Rational Account of Substance in Basil's Later Texts -- 6 Basil's New Concept of Substance as 'Stuff': In Line with the Nicene Grammar -- 7 Basil's Epistle 9: One More Step toward Nicaea -- 8 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 7 The Synthesis of Antiochene and Nicene Theologies: Basil of Caesarea's Later Trinitarian Grammar and the Context of Constantinople 381-382 -- 1 Basil's Dual Trinitarian Discourse in Context -- 2 Basil's Polemic with Eustathius of Sebasteia -- 3 Meletians and Paulinians in Conflict: The Internal Nicene Debate over the Terms Prosopon and Hypostasis and Basil's Articulation of the New Synthesis -- 4 The Pro-Nicene Synthesis in the Context of Constantinople 381 -- 4.1 Gregory of Nazianzus -- 4.2 Gregory of Nyssa -- 4.3 Amphilochius of Iconium -- 4.4 The Letter of the Council of Constantinople 382 -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Summary of Part 2 -- Final Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index of Terms -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Modern Authors -- Back Cover.