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The earliest Christologies : five images of Christ in the postapostolic age / James L. Papandrea.

By: Publisher: Downers Grove, IL : IVP Academic, An imprint of InterVarsity Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780830899722 (eBook)
  • 0830899723 (eBook)
  • 0830851275
  • 9780830851270
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Earliest ChristologiesDDC classification:
  • 232.09/015 23
LOC classification:
  • BT198
Online resources:
Contents:
Images of Christ in the postapostolic age -- Christ as angel: angel adoptionism -- Christ as prophet: spirit adoptionism -- Christ as phantom: docetism and docetic gnosticism -- Christ as cosmic mind: hybrid gnosticism -- Christ as word: logos Christology -- What, then, is orthodoxy?
Summary: In this clear and concise introduction to second-century christologies, James Papandrea sets out five of the principal images of Christ that dominated the postapostolic age. Between varieties of adoptionism and brands of Gnosticism, Papandrea helps us see how Logos Christology was forged as the beginning of the church's orthodox confession.
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Includes index.

Images of Christ in the postapostolic age -- Christ as angel: angel adoptionism -- Christ as prophet: spirit adoptionism -- Christ as phantom: docetism and docetic gnosticism -- Christ as cosmic mind: hybrid gnosticism -- Christ as word: logos Christology -- What, then, is orthodoxy?

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

In this clear and concise introduction to second-century christologies, James Papandrea sets out five of the principal images of Christ that dominated the postapostolic age. Between varieties of adoptionism and brands of Gnosticism, Papandrea helps us see how Logos Christology was forged as the beginning of the church's orthodox confession.

English.

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