Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria

Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria
Author: Francis X.. Gumerlock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781736865163

Published in English for the first time, these pages provide an introduction, translation, and transcription of a late-sixth century lecture on Revelation 7-12. Given in an Egyptian monastery by an unknown teacher and written in the Sahidic Coptic dialect, the lecture circulated in the name of Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444). The manuscript copy was discovered in 1910. Herein titled Encomium, the commentary manuscript likely derived from the scriptorium in the ancient Egyptian city of Touton. It was donated in the year 861 to the monastery of St. Michael the Archangel at Sopehes, which is today the Egyptian village of Hamuli in southwestern Fayum, though the monastery ceased operations in the early tenth century. The Encomium was part of a lecture series on the Apocalypse, most likely by a visiting monk, teacher, or bishop. The text is probably a transcription of the lecture by one of the hearers and the one lecturing appears to use a translation of the Book of Revelation into Sahidic Coptic. The extensive introduction provides readers with important historical, exegetical, and theological background for understanding this remarkable writing on the Book of Revelation and its reception in sixth-century Egypt. Book jacket.

Cyril of Alexandria

Cyril of Alexandria
Author: Norman Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2002-04-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113467337X

This book presents key selections of Cyril's writings in order to make his thought accessible to students. The writings are all freshly translated and an extended introduction outlines Cyril's life and times.

Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem On the Life and the Passion of Christ

Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem On the Life and the Passion of Christ
Author: Roelof van den Broek
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004237577

In Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem On the Life and the Passion of Christ, Roelof van den Broek offers the first edition, with introduction, translation and notes, of a coptic text which contains a great number of apocryphal elements.

St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy

St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy
Author: John A. McGuckin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004312900

St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy describes the turmoil of 5th century Christianity seeking to articulate its beliefs on the person of Christ. The policies of the Theodosian dynasty and the conflicting interests of the patriarchal sees are set as the context of the controversy between Nestorius of Constantinople and Cyril of Alexandria, a bitter dispute that racked the entire oecumene. The historical analysis expounds the arguments of both sides, particularly the Christology of Cyril which was adopted as a standard. Many major texts are presented in new translations, some of which have never before appeared in English. These writings are essential reading in the history of doctrine. The work will be an indispensable resource for all students of the period: theologians and Byzantinists.

Cyril of Alexandria’s Refutations

Cyril of Alexandria’s Refutations
Author: Cyril of Alexandria
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2018-10-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1773562835

Cyril of Alexandria was one of the earliest Christian apologetics as he fought against many types of false teaching varying in degree. Although the teachings that he was very carefully refuting were not really Gnostic in thought it is easy to see the Gnostic areas of influence that many of this opponents had. These various books collected here are presented to make it easier not only to read the truth as was needed back in the early church but also the arguments set forth by Cyril so that we can learn from the past and not fall into the same schools of false teaching today.

Exposition of the Apocalypse

Exposition of the Apocalypse
Author: Tyconius (Afer)
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2017
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0813229561

The Exposition of the Apocalypse by Tyconius of Carthage (fl. 380) was pivotal in the history of interpretation of the Book of Revelation. While expositors of the second and third centuries viewed the Apocalypse of John, or Book of Revelation, as mainly about the time of Antichrist and the end of the world, in the late fourth century Tyconius interpreted John’s visions as figurative of the struggles facing the Church throughout the entire period between the Incarnation and the Second Coming of Christ. Tyconius’s “ecclesiastical” reading of the Apocalypse was highly regarded by early medieval commentators like Caesarius of Arles, Primasius of Hadrumetum, Bede, and Beatus of Liebana, who often quoted from Tyconius’s Exposition in their own Apocalypse commentaries. Unfortunately no complete manuscript of the Exposition by Tyconius has survived. A number of recent scholars, however, believed that a large portion of his Exposition could be reconstructed from citations of it in the aforementioned early medieval writers; and this task was undertaken by Monsignor Roger Gryson. Gryson’s edition, a reconstruction of the Expositio Apocalypseos of Tyconius, was published in 2011 in Corpus Christianorum Series Latina. The present translation of that reconstructed text, with introduction and notes, exhibits Tyconius’s unique non-apocalyptic approach to the Book of Revelation. It also shows that throughout the Exposition Tyconius made use of interpretive rules that he had laid out in an earlier work on hermeneutics, the Book of Rules, strongly suggesting that Tyconius wrote his Exposition as a companion to his Book of Rules. Thus, the Exposition served as an exemplar of how those rules would apply to interpretation of even the most intriguing of biblical texts, the Apocalypse.

The Dyophysite Christology of Cyril of Alexandria

The Dyophysite Christology of Cyril of Alexandria
Author: Hans van Loon
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2009-04-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 904742669X

The formula ‘one incarnate nature of the Word of God’ has often been depicted as a summary of Cyril of Alexandria’s (ca 378-444) christology. But no systematic study into his christological works has been published. Besides, there is no consensus regarding the meaning of the key terms and expressions in these works. This book addresses this deficiency by an integral investigation of the archbishop’s christological writings during the first two years of the Nestorian controversy, and comes to the conclusion that his christology is basically dyophysite. This re-appraisal of his christology bears on the understanding of the Council of Chalcedon and on contemporary ecumenical relations, especially those between the Eastern Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox.

Three Christological Treatises

Three Christological Treatises
Author: Saint Cyril (Patriarch of Alexandria)
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2014-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0813227054

Twenty-nine in all, these letters cover all but three of Cyril's years as a bishop. The first twelve were published in 2009 (Fathers of the Church 118). The present volume completes the set. Festal letters were used in Alexandria primarily to announce the beginning of Lent and the date of Easter. They also served a catechetical purpose, however, allowing the Patriarch an annual opportunity to write pastorally not just about issues facing the entire see, but also about the theological issues of the day. Thus, in these letters we catch a glimpse of Cyril the pastor writing about complex theology in an uncomplicated way. These letters also illuminate other realities of the ancient church in Alexandria, especially the relationship with the Jewish community and the rising influence of asceticism.