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Way to Nicaea, Formation of Christian Theology, The, Vol. 1.
John Behr

Number of quotes: 6


Book ID: 431 Page: 137

Section: 2D3B

…intimated in the differences, examined in Part Two, between Justin Martyr, for whom the Logos is another God who, unlike the totally transcendent Father, is able to reveal himself and in due course became incarnate as Jesus Christ, and Irenaeus of Lyons, according to whom Jesus Christ, as preached by the apostles in the Gospel recapitulating Scripture, is the eternal Word of God, the Son who reveals or makes known ([Greek, Jn. 1:18)] the Father.

Quote ID: 8716

Time Periods: 2


Book ID: 431 Page: 142/143

Section: 2D3B

According to the Refutation, Theodotus originated from Byzantium and taught that, after an ordinary life, Jesus demonstrated exceptional piety and at his baptism received the Spirit, who declared that Jesus was the Christ and empowered him to fulfill his divine mission.{4} Theodotus himself denied that this meant that Jesus became God…

Quote ID: 8717

Time Periods: 2


Book ID: 431 Page: 143

Section: 2D3B

The followers of Theodotus also claimed, according to the Little Labyinth, that “the truth of the preaching,” that is, their position that Christ was a man, not God, was held by all, from the apostles to the time of Victor, only to be “corrupted” by his successor, Zephyrinus (EH 5.28.3).

Quote ID: 8718

Time Periods: 2


Book ID: 431 Page: 144/145

Section: 4A

The next, more turbulent, round of debates in Rome is described in the ninth book of the Refutation of all Heresies and concerns similar issues but approached from the opposite direction. Besides all their other points of contention, Zephyrinus and Callistus accused the author of the Refutation of being a “ditheist” (Ref. 9.11.3, 12.16), and he retaliated by claiming that their teaching, that the Father and the Son were the same, derived from a certain Noetus, and, though unknown to his opponents themselves, was ultimately based on Heraclitus, “the Obscure” (Ref. 9.8.1). In large measure, this debate turned upon the appropriateness of a theology, already outlined by Justin Martyr, which understood the Word of God as functioning in a similar manner to the second god of Middle Platonism, the assimilation of the Stoic logos and the Platonic demiurge, who bridged the gap between the completely transcendent God and the realm of Creation, {7}….

Quote ID: 8719

Time Periods: 234


Book ID: 431 Page: 152

Section: 2B1

Callistus comments, “For that which is seen, which is man, that is the Son, but the spirit contained within the Son is the Father” (Ref. 9.12.18)….

Quote ID: 8720

Time Periods: 3


Book ID: 431 Page: 156

Section:

Hippolytus

Contra Noetum, “There is one God, and we acquire knowledge of him from no other source, brethren, than the Holy Scriptures” (CN 9.1).

Quote ID: 8721

Time Periods: 2



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