TY  - MANSCPT
AU  - Cyril,
AU  - Dragas,George Dion
TI  - Against those who are unwilling to confess that the Holy Virgin is Theotokos
SN  - 0974561878 (pbk) :
AV  - BR65.C953 L6313 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Rollinsford, N.H.
PB  - Orthodox Research Institute
KW  - Mary,
KW  - Jesus Christ
KW  - Mary
KW  - Blessed Virgin, Saint
KW  - Titles
KW  - Incarnation
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
N2  - The term Theotokos helped to establish the truth that Jesus Christ, who was born of the Virgin Mary, was the preexisting Son of God who also became man without ceasing to be God in order to recapitulate in Himself the entire humanity and work out an eternal salvation for it. The point here is that Jesus Christ is the same Son of God who as true God "was born" ineffably and eternally from the Father and as true man was born in time and according to the flesh from the Virgin for the completion of the ages. Jesus Christ is one person who unites in Himself two natures, the divine and the human, and thus deifies the human by leading it to participate in the perfections of the divine. The term Theotokos brings out all these aspects of the mystery of the Incarnation and stresses its soteriological import. The present text can be described as a model of Patristic theological discourse. It is an anti-heretical treatise, which refers to a central dogma of Christian theology, the doctrine of Christ
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