On Christ as God in flesh (Cyril of Alexandria)

[Reformed Covenanter]

The God-inspired Scriptures therefore proclaim to the world One Christ and Son and Lord and say that He is the Lord of Glory and that He of His own Will bare for our sakes the contumelies of the Jews, and economically endured Death upon the wood, not in order with us to remain dead, but that having undone the might of death which none might withstand, He might bring again to immortality the nature of man: for He was God in Flesh.

Cyril of Alexandria, Five-Book Contradiction of the Blasphemies of Nestorius or The Five Tomes of S. Cyril (430), Book 5.3, trans. P. E. Pusey in A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, Anterior to the Division of the East and West, Translated by Members of the English Church. Volume 47 (Oxford: James Parker, 1881), p. 171.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

I will not start another thread for this similar quote:

We confess therefore One Son, Christ Jesus the Lord, that is, the Word of God made Man and Incarnate and Him crucified and raised from the dead and to come in due time in the Glory of God the Father with the holy Angels; through Him and with Him to God the Father be glory with the Holy Ghost for ever. Amen.

Cyril of Alexandria, Five-Book Contradiction of the Blasphemies of Nestorius or The Five Tomes of S. Cyril (430), Book 5.7, trans. P. E. Pusey in A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, Anterior to the Division of the East and West, Translated by Members of the English Church. Volume 47 (Oxford: James Parker, 1881), p. 184.

 

[J.L. Allen]

Thank you for sharing. I'm reading Henry Chadwick's The Early Church and covering the topic of Cyril and Nestorius.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

Thank you for sharing. I'm reading Henry Chadwick's The Early Church and covering the topic of Cyril and Nestorius.

It was my textbook when I did early church history as a first-year undergraduate.

 

[J.L. Allen]

It was my textbook when I did early church history as a first-year undergraduate.

I've enjoyed it so far. How would you assess the work now?

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

I've enjoyed it so far. How would you assess the work now?

It is a good overview, though it is probably a bit dated nowadays.

 

[RamistThomist]

Sure, it's dated in some ways, but Chadwick will always be known among the classics of English-speaking church history.