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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460587703321

Autore

Scully Ellen

Titolo

Physicalist soteriology in Hilary of Poitiers / / Ellen Scully

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-29081-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, , 0920-623X ; ; Volume 130

Disciplina

234.092

Soggetti

Salvation - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Marquete University, 2011.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Revising the Lens through which Hilary is Read -- 2 Hilary’s Use of Language and Rhetoric -- 3 The Context of, and Influences upon, Hilary’s Soteriology -- 4 Proof of Hilary’s Physicalism -- 5 Christological Ramifications: Sublimation of Christology into Soteriology -- 6 The Assumption of All Humanity as Definitive of Hilary’s Physicalist Soteriology -- 7 Eschatological Ramifications: Eternal Life in Christ -- 8 Ecclesiological Ramifications: The Church is the Body of Christ -- 9 Hilary’s Patercentric Theology: The Relationship between Physicalism and Trinitarian Theology -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Scripture Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Physicalist Soteriology in Hilary of Poitiers , Ellen Scully presents Hilary as a representative of the “mystical” or “physical” trajectory of patristic soteriology most often associated with the Greek fathers. Scully shows that Hilary’s physicalism is unique, both in its Latin non-Platonic provenance and its conceptual foundation, namely that the incarnation has salvific effects for all humanity because Christ’s body contains every human individual. Hilary’s soteriological conviction that all humans are present in Christ’s body has theological ramifications that expand beyond soteriology to include christology, eschatology, ecclesiology, and Trinitarian theology. In detailing these ramifications, Scully illumines the pervasive centrality of physicalism in Hilary’s theology while correcting standard soteriological presentations of



physicalism as an exclusively Greek phenomenon.