Human Salvation in Early Christianity

Auteur

Ellen Scully is Associate Professor and Chair of Undergraduate Theology at Seton Hall University. She has authored Physicalist Soteriology in Hilary of Poitiers (2015) and co-edited New Narratives for Old: The Historical Method of Reading Early Christian Theology (2022).

Texte du rabat

Ellen Scully presents the first historical study of Early Christian theology regarding physicalist soteriology, a logic by which Christ's incarnation has universal effects independent of individual belief or consent. She offers an overview of the historical rise and fall of their theological logic of physicalist soteriology.

Contenu

1. The rise and fall of early Christian Physicalist Soteriology; 2. Scholarly approaches to Physicalist Soteriology; 3. Athanasius: Pneumatological Physicalism; 4. Hilary of Poitiers: collective Physicalism; 5. Marius Victorinus: 'Harnackian-style' platonic Physicalism; 6. Gregory of Nyssa: delayed Physicalism; 7. Cyril of Alexandria: resurrection Physicalism; 8. Maximus the confessor: creationist Physicalism; 9. The almost, but not quite, Physicalists; 10. Constructive approaches to the Historical reality of Physicalism; Bibliography; Index.