Distinction λογος – τροπος and Its Application in the Christology of the Eastern Fathers
Distinction λογος – τροπος and Its Application in the Christology of the Eastern Fathers

Summary/Abstract: In the Trinitarian and Christological teaching of the Eastern Fathers, the lógoς-trópoς distinction had a special theological significance. The introduction and use of this distinction is due to the Cappadocian Fathers, St. Basil the Great and then St. Gregory of Nyssa. However, the way of interpreting the use of this distinction in modern theology by St. Gregory of Nyssa is a minimizing one. In such a way of understanding we have not yet sufficiently emphasized the fundamental contribution of St. Gregory to the foundation of Eastern Christology. The present study goes to the work Antirrethicus adversus Apollinarium of St. Gregory of Nyssa, to show the reality of a clear and correct Christology, present in fact in his other writings, using the distinction λογος – τροπος.

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