A New Look at the Condemnations of Origen and Theodore of Mopsuestia

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.SvetoslavRibolovA New Look at the Condemnations of Origen and Theodore of Mopsuestiahttp://syriaca.org/cbss/UU7KTA6Ahttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/UU7KTA6Ahttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/UU7KTA6AArchiv für mittelalterliche Philosophie und Kultur18201237-45An understanding of salvation as ethical or moral example leads to a speciﬁc bifurcation of the image of Christ in the Gospels. After Chalcedon (451) such approach to the person of Christ and His redeeming work was absolutely unacceptable. After Chalcedon the unity of Christ on the basis of the hypostasis of God the Word becomes a central moment in an ontological understanding of Salvation. Actually here the humanity goes directly into the deity through the second person of the Divine Trinity. This tendency is obvious in St. Cyril of Alexandria and it is a leading motive in Constantinople (553). It remains as a basic principle in the Christological thought of the Byzantine theology. Thus we can suppose that the reasons for the accusations against Theodore of Mopsuestia at the 5th ecumenical council in Constantinople (553) are mainly theological and could be connected with the accusations against Origen. Therefore, the basis for his condemnation is not his anti-Origenism but the inconsistency of his theological vision with the sacrificial implications of Chalcedonian dogma. Ribolov, Svetoslav. “A New Look at the Condemnations of Origen and Theodore of Mopsuestia.” Archiv Für Mittelalterliche Philosophie Und Kultur 18 (2012): 37–45. Svetoslav Ribolov, A New Look at the Condemnations of Origen and Theodore of Mopsuestia, Archiv Für Mittelalterliche Philosophie Und Kultur 18 (2012): 37–45.Antiochene schoolByzantine churchChristologyIV-VII CETheodore of MopsuestiaVI CEpolemic