Cyril of Alexandria's Trinitarian Theology of Scripture by Matthew R. Crawford

By Matthew R. Crawford
appropriation of pro-Nicene Trinitarianism is clear in either one of his theology of revelation and his theology of exegesis, the 2 foci that include his doctrine of Scripture. Revelation, in his realizing, proceeds from the daddy, in the course of the Son, and within the Spirit, following the order of Trinitarian
relations. additionally, this trend applies to the foundation of Scripture besides, insofar as proposal happens whilst the Son indwells human authors by way of the Spirit and speaks the phrases of the daddy. even supposing Cyril's interpretation of revelation may well for this reason be referred to as 'Trinitarian', it's also resolutely Christological, because the divine and incarnate Son features because the imperative content material and mediator of all divine unveiling. similar to this divine circulation in the direction of humanity in revelation
is humanity's appropriation of divine existence in line with the opposite pattern—in the Spirit, during the Son, unto the daddy. utilized to exegesis, this Trinitarian trend signifies that the Spirit directs the reader of Scripture to a Christological interpretation of the textual content, wherein the
believer beholds the incarnate Son, the exemplar of advantage and the right picture of the daddy, and therefore advances in either advantage and data. This technique keeps until eventually the ultimate eschatological imaginative and prescient while the categories and riddles of Scripture should be performed away with in gentle of the overpowering readability of the Christologically-mediated Trinitarian vision.
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