By Susan Wessel

ISBN-10: 0199268460

ISBN-13: 9780199268467

What have been the historic and cultural strategies through which Cyril of Alexandria used to be increased to canonical prestige whereas his opponent, Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, was once made right into a heretic? not like prior scholarship, Susan Wessel concludes that Cyril's good fortune in being increased to orthodox prestige used to be now not easily a political accomplishment according to political alliances he had shaped as chance arose. Nor used to be it a dogmatic victory, according to the readability and orthodoxy of Cyril's doctrinal claims. as an alternative, it was once his procedure in selecting himself with the orthodoxy of the previous bishop of Alexandria, Athanasius, in his victory over Arianism, in borrowing Athanasius' interpretive tools, and in skilfully utilizing the tropes and figures of the second one sophistic that made Cyril a saint within the Greek and Coptic Orthodox Churches.

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