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Jaroslav Pelikan · 1974
The second volume of Pelikan's five-volume history of Christian doctrine, tracing the development of Eastern Christian theology through Byzantine, Syriac, and early Russian traditions from 600 to 1700, examining continuity and change in doctrinal interpretation.
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What this book knows
Eastern Christian doctrine from Chalcedon to 1700 is a sustained argument that tradition, icon, and deification are inseparable.
obedience-and-authority
the Byzantines never forgot their inheritance — doctrine and love had to be distinguished within the authority of the fathers
SEC6-RC-026it did not suffice simply to declare that one stood with the orthodox tradition when both sides claimed that authority
SEC6-RC-038faith-and-doubt
Faith was the foundation underlying the deeds of piety, giving assurance that God is and that things divine are real
SEC6-RC-030the connection between the argument over idolatry and the christological argument becomes clear in John of Damascus
SEC6-RC-144education-and-formation
liturgical theology correlated icon and incarnation, worship and dogma, piety and theology as a traditional system
SEC6-RC-153the gift of deification achieved by the incarnation — divine grace and human freedom did not present the same problem in Eastern Christian thought
SEC6-RC-0296 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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