Thesaurus (Prologue & Assertion I)
Cyril of Alexandria (376–444) has often been considered a forgotten father of the early church, but his legacy is quite enduring. Norman Russell has rightly pointed out that “Cyril's christological teaching, even if not always well understood, has never ceased to be regarded as normative for most Christians.” It is impossible to confess a creedal Christology without his influence, impossible to retrieve a figural reading of time and the Word without addressing him, impossible to understand the nuances of patristic soteriology that account for much of the Reformation’s focus on justification and union with Christ, apart from reading him. While the bulk of Cyril’s work takes up exegetical and biblical theological concerns, and the most enduring of his work is the Christological writings around the Nestorian controversy, Cyril was also a dogmatic theologian who wrote multiple works on the Trinity, one of which was his Thesaurus of the Holy and Consubstantial Trinity, translated here in English for the very first time.
Cyril of Alexandria (376–444) has often been considered a forgotten father of the early church, but his legacy is quite enduring. Norman Russell has rightly pointed out that “Cyril's christological teaching, even if not always well understood, has never ceased to be regarded as normative for most Christians.” It is impossible to confess a creedal Christology without his influence, impossible to retrieve a figural reading of time and the Word without addressing him, impossible to understand the nuances of patristic soteriology that account for much of the Reformation’s focus on justification and union with Christ, apart from reading him. While the bulk of Cyril’s work takes up exegetical and biblical theological concerns, and the most enduring of his work is the Christological writings around the Nestorian controversy, Cyril was also a dogmatic theologian who wrote multiple works on the Trinity, one of which was his Thesaurus of the Holy and Consubstantial Trinity, translated here in English for the very first time.
Cyril of Alexandria (376–444) has often been considered a forgotten father of the early church, but his legacy is quite enduring. Norman Russell has rightly pointed out that “Cyril's christological teaching, even if not always well understood, has never ceased to be regarded as normative for most Christians.” It is impossible to confess a creedal Christology without his influence, impossible to retrieve a figural reading of time and the Word without addressing him, impossible to understand the nuances of patristic soteriology that account for much of the Reformation’s focus on justification and union with Christ, apart from reading him. While the bulk of Cyril’s work takes up exegetical and biblical theological concerns, and the most enduring of his work is the Christological writings around the Nestorian controversy, Cyril was also a dogmatic theologian who wrote multiple works on the Trinity, one of which was his Thesaurus of the Holy and Consubstantial Trinity, translated here in English for the very first time.