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From Nicaea to Chalcedon : a guide to the literature and its background / Frances M. Young ; with Andrew Teal.

Young, Frances M. (Frances Margaret); Teal, Andrew.
2010
270.2 Y71f 2010
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Title
From Nicaea to Chalcedon : a guide to the literature and its background / Frances M. Young ; with Andrew Teal.
Author
Young, Frances M. (Frances Margaret)
Edition
2nd ed.
ISBN
9780801039157 (pbk.)
0801039150 (pbk.)
Imprint
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2010.
Language
English
Description
x, 406 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
270.2 Y71f 2010
System Control No.
(OCoLC)548412808
(OCoLC)548412808
Summary
In this volume, a world-renowned scholar of early Christianity updates and expands her survey of the writers and writings of the golden age of Greek patristic theology. --from publisher description
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-386) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
[Part] 1. The birth of church history and its sequel
Eusebius of Caesarea
Life
The Ecclesiastical history and earlier historical writings
Apologetic works
Political writings
Eusebius' Christology
Eusbeius as a biblical scholar
Eusebius' successors
Socrates Scholasticus
Philostorgius
Sozomen
Theodoret
Conclusion
[Part] 2. Athanasius and the shaping of Nicene theology
Introduction
Arius
Athanasius: the legend and the critique
The fundamentals of Athanasius' theology: Contra gentes, De incarnatione
Marcellus: ally or embarrassment?
Orations against the Arians
Self-justification, retrospective history and shifting theological alliances
Other works
Conclusion.
Added Author
Teal, Andrew.
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