Probing the Exegetical Foundations of Consubstantiality: Worship, Mediatorial Figures, and the Homoousion
This article explores the question of whether modern theologians can adopt pro-Nicene theology on the basis of modern biblical studies. It argues that under two hermeneutic assumptions (identified as the canon principle and inspiration principle), key data assessed in the Christological monotheism d...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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| In: |
Modern theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 679-702 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Nicene Creed
/ Athanasius, Alexandrinus, Heiliger 295-373, Disputatio contra Arium
/ New Testament
/ Monotheism
/ Hermeneutics
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBC Doctrine of God VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
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| Summary: | This article explores the question of whether modern theologians can adopt pro-Nicene theology on the basis of modern biblical studies. It argues that under two hermeneutic assumptions (identified as the canon principle and inspiration principle), key data assessed in the Christological monotheism debates provides warrant for pro-Nicene defenses of consubstantiality. Three features of Athanasius’s Contra Arianos are explored in dialogue with modern biblical scholarship to defend this claim: Athanasius’s variegated mediatorial Christology, his emphasis on Christ as preeminent mediator, and his appeals to cultic worship of Christ in the New Testament. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12665 |