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Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian Controversy: The Making of a Saint and of a Heretic Hardcover - 2004 - 1st Edition

by Susan Wessel


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What were the historical and cultural processes by which Cyril of Alexandria was elevated to canonical status while his opponent, Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, was made into a heretic? In contrast to previous scholarship, Susan Wessel concludes that Cyril's success in being elevated to orthodox status was not simply a political accomplishment based on political alliances he had fashioned as opportunity arose. Nor was it a dogmatic victory, based on the clarity and orthodoxy of Cyril's doctrinal claims. Instead, it was his strategy in identifying himself with the orthodoxy of the former bishop of Alexandria, Athanasius, in his victory over Arianism, in borrowing Athanasius' interpretive methods, and in skilfully using the tropes and figures of the second sophistic that made Cyril a saint in the Greek and Coptic Orthodox Churches.

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  • Title Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian Controversy: The Making of a Saint and of a Heretic
  • Author Susan Wessel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 308
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP Oxford, 2004. 380p. Hardback. Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies. Susan Wessel has produced a learned and exciting book
  • Date 2004-12-30
  • ISBN 9780199268467 / 0199268460
  • Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Cyril, Nestorius
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004059511
  • Dewey Decimal Code 273.5

About the author


Susan Wessel is Assistant Professor of Greek Patristics, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
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