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.