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Sacramental Theology
Both resistance to and renewed interest in the sacraments mark current theological thought. This work acknowledges human limitations of the sacraments but stresses that God's relationship to human beings cannot be other than sacramental." Sacramental structures and events constitute salvation history, and thus permeate all theology. What makes this sacramental view comprehensible is faith; faith is an indispensable precondition for a sacramental theology. Therefore, the author first demonstrates the preconditions of faith on which sacramental theology rests, and what place it holds within the whole of theology. Following this, he briefly presents the concept of sacraments and the history of that concept, the teachings of Church tradition on sacraments in general, and the basic features of a sacramental theology. Next, he explains from a theological perspective the traditional sacraments of the Catholic Church, including related topics such as indulgences and sacramentals.
Priesthood
Well written and well presented, Father Osborne's book is a solid overview of the history of the sacrament of holy orders not only for Roman Catholic clergy, but for clergy throughout the Christian world. It will help all of those in ministry to understand the relationships between laity and clergy more deeply, and it carefully delineates the deeper theological significance of women in ministry. By considering the ordained ministry from the standpoint of Jesus as the primordial minister, 'Priesthood' enhances the multiple nature of ministry in ecumenical dialogues of our contemporary world, making them less intransigent. With the extensive discussion on ministry today, 'Priesthood' is a welcome, timely and necessary contribution.
The Church and Social Reform
The traditional influence, power, and authority that resided in the patriarchate of Constantinople made the involvement of an aggressive patriarch in the social affairs of the empire virtually inevitable.
The Christology of Theodoret of Cyrus
Theodoret of Cyrus (c.393-c.466) was the most able Antiochene theologian in the defence of Nestorius from the Council of Ephesus in 431 to the Council of Chalcedon in 451. While the works of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Nestorius are extant today only in translations or in fragments, Theodoret's voluminous works are largely available in their original Greek. This study of his writings throws considerable light on the theology of those councils and the final evolution and content of Antiochene Christology. Clayton demonstrates that Antiochene Christology was rooted in the concern to maintain the impassibility of God the Word and is consequently a two-subject Christology. Its fundamental philosophical assumptions about the natures of God and humanity compelled the Antiochenes to assert that there are two subjects in the Incarnation: the Word himself and a distinct human personality. This Christology is not the hypostatic union of the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon.
Patrology
V.1. The beginnings of patristic literature.--v.2. The ante-Nicene literature after Irenaeus.--v.3. The Golden Age of Greek patristic literature from the Council of Nicaea to the Council of Chalcedon.
Ibas von Edessa
Ibas lebte und wirkte im 5. Jahrhundert in der Stadt Edessa (heute: Urfa, Türkei). Im Jahre 435 übernahm er von seinem theologischen Gegner Rabbula den Bischofsstuhl. Oftmals erhält er den Beinamen "Übersetzer", da er verschiedene Werke aus dem Griechischen ins Syrische übersetzte. Der Bischof Ibas von Edessa (gest. 457) war intensiv an der die Zeit bestimmenden christologischen Auseinandersetzung beteiligt. Sein berühmter Brief an den Perser Mari aus dem Jahre 433 wurde zum Kontroversdokument in Edessa selbst und auf den verschiedensten großkirchlichen Konzilien nicht nur für Jahre, sondern für über ein Jahrhundert. Die Arbeit macht es sich zur Aufgabe, die Lebenswelt und Theologi...
