Person and Work of Christ: Confusion of terms in Patristic theology

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Much of the controversies that raged the Patristic period regarding Christology were due to the confusion of meanings in the usage of Greek terms in the Alexandrian and Antiochean Schools. Dr. V. C. Samuel in his Council of Chalcedon Re-Examined (1977) writes: "In the Christological controversy, unlike any other theological dispute in the ancient church, there was a great deal of obscurity on account of the technical terms that were employed. theologians of all shades of opinion used the following terms: ousia in Greek; the Syriac used either ousia or Ithutho to correspond to it. Hupostasis in Greek and its Syriac equivalent Qnumo. Physis in Greek had kyono as its Syriac rendering. The Greek prosopon had parsupo in Syriac. (Continue...Person and Work of Christ: Confusion of terms in Patristic theology).

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