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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.JohnBehrThe Case against Diodore and Theodore: Texts and Their Contextshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/4MNXPL48https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/4MNXPL48https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/4MNXPL48OxfordOxford University Press2011This is a landmark work, providing
the first complete collection of the remaining excerpts from the writings of
Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia together with a ground-breaking
study of the controversy regarding the person of Christ that raged from the
fourth to the sixth century, and which still divides the Christian Church.
Destroyed after their condemnation, all that remains of the dogmatic writings of
Diodore and Theodore are the passages quoted by their supporters and opponents.
John Behr brings together all these excerpts, from the time of Theodore's
death until his condemnation at the Second Council of Constantinople (553) -
including newly-edited Syriac texts (from florilegium in Cod. Add. 12156, and
the fragmentary remains of Theodore's On the Incarnation in Cod. Add.
14669) and many translated for the first time - and examines their
interrelationship, to determine who was borrowing from whom, locating the source
of the polemic with Cyril of Alexandria.
On the basis of this textual work,
Behr presents a historical and theological analysis that completely revises the
picture of these 'Antiochenes' and the controversy regarding them.
Twentieth-century scholarship often found these two 'Antiochenes'
sympathetic characters for their aversion to allegory and their concern for the
'historical Jesus', and regarded their condemnation as an unfortunate
incident motivated by desire for retaliation amidst 'Neo-Chalcedonian'
advances in Christology. This study shows how, grounded in the ecclesial and
theological strife that had already beset Antioch for over a century, Diodore
and Theodore, in opposition to Julian the Apostate and Apollinarius, were led to
separate the New Testament from the Old and 'the man' from the Word of
God, resulting in a very limited understanding of Incarnation and circumscribing
the importance of the Passion. The result is a comprehensive and cogent account
of the controversy, both Christological and exegetical together, of the early
fifth century, the way it stemmed from earlier tensions and continued through
the Councils of Ephesus, Chalcedon, and Constantinople II.
Behr, John. The Case against Diodore and Theodore: Texts and Their Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
John Behr, The Case against Diodore and Theodore: Texts and Their Contexts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).Antiochene schoolChristologyCouncil of Constantinople II
(553)Diodore of TarsusIV CEIV-VII CENestoriansTheodore of MopsuestiaV CEVI CEanti-Nestoriancouncilspolemicprimary sources [Greek] +
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