Karl-Heinz Uthemann
Eustathios von Antiochien wider den seelenlosen Christus der Arianer. Zu neu entdeckten Fragmenten eines Traktats des Eustathios
The new edition of the extant works of Eustathios of Antioch includes an Anti-Arian Epitome compilated at the late 4th or early 5th century, but reproducing an Eustathian work. The work contains new information about the Arian christology. The article deals with the synod at Antioch 324/325, Urkunde 18 and the importance of the christology for the Arian thought. The Epitome argues that the Arian opponents denied the human soul in the incarnated Logos. This leads to the question if this argumentation of the Epitome doesn't hit any Arian thought directly, but is only a conclusion of their exegesis. The detailed analysis of the exegetical arguments mentioned in the Epitome, however, leads to the conclusion that the Arian opponents of Eustathios tried to ascribe invariability to the incarnated Logos, excluding any mutability, especially the passions, from the incarnated Logos for maintaining the soteriological impact of the incarnation. Compared with Athanasios, De incarnatione, the Epitome offers a different, nonetheless interesting view upon the early Arian thought.
Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, Walter de Gruyter
Print ISSN: 0949-9571
Volume: 10, 06/2007
Pages: 472 - 521
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