christology from first council of Nicaea to first council of Constantinopole with emphasis on votes of Cappadocian fathers

Author:
Zahra Zanganeh
Level:
Master
Subject(s):
Abrahamic Religions
Language:
Farsi
Faculty:
Faculty of Religions
Year:
2016
Publisher:
URD Press
Supervisor(s):
Leila Houshangi
Advisor(s):
Mehrab Sadegh Nia

 The place of Jesus Christ is the important issues that early Church Fathers and Christian theologians have talked about it . About the divinity of Jesus Christ and its relation to his humanity, Christian theology has been proposed various theories .In the first centuries AD, the impact of conflict,like arians heresy, the debate about the place of Jesus and how his relationship with God and also orthodox interpretation of the Trinity in the Creeds of first two  ecunomical Councils ,first council of Nicaea (325 AD) and first council of constantinopole (381 AD) is to be followed.In this paper, we review the different backgrounds of formation issues of Christology, including the context of cultural and philosophical views on the most important early Fathers, Origen and Tertullian, has been studied.Thus, in this thesis the formation of councils and their decisions is made clear and the role of Cappadocian fathers that include Basil, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory Nazianzen, in theological and philosophical definition of the Trinity highlighted.The three Greek theologian who had risen from the Hellenistic thought, to resolve the contradictions philosophical doctrine of the Trinity and formation of Christology were played the special role.To the extent that the Council of Constantinople,that Nicaen Creed formolaized in it, was named to council of Cappadocian Fathers.