THE WORKS OF SAINT CYRIL OF JERUSALEM
Volume 1
Translated by
LEO P. McCAULEY, S.J.
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
and
ANTHONY A. STEPHENSON
University of Exeter
England
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6. The Creed of Jerusalem (“J”)
The Introductory Lecture (Procatechesis)
Father Leo P. McCauley is responsible for the translation, with notes, of the Lenten (pre-baptismal) Lectures 1–12. Father A. A. Stephenson is responsible for the General Introduction and the Procatechesis. Except where otherwise noted, the text translated is that of the W. K. Reischl and J. Rupp edition of the works of Cyril (Munich 1848–1860).
Father Stephenson writes as follows on certain matters:
My general introduction is heavily indebted to many scholars. While most of these debts are indicated, however inadequately and implicitly, in the Select Bibliography, I gladly mention here how much I owe to that great Cyrilline scholar, Dom A. A. Touttée, O.S.B., and to the Patristic Greek Lexicon edited by Dr. G. W. H. Lampe, who has conferred an inestimable boon on all students of the Greek Fathers. Instructive, however, as Touttée’s dissertations, notes, and critical apparatus still are, there is as yet no modern critical edition of the works of Cyril, and it is good news that this need is very soon to be supplied by Père E. Bihain. Throughout the volume “Lecture” may stand for Catechesis; in the General Introduction, “Eusebius” is always Eusebius of Caesarea, “Basil” is always Basil of Ancyra, “the East” does not include Egypt, and “Eastern theology” refers to the tradition originated by Origen and continued by, among others, Eusebius.
A further volume in the series will contain, in addition to the Sermon on the Paralytic and the Letter to Constantius, ...
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About The Works of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Volume 1Cyril’s life of some seventy years, placed in the very center of the fourth century, epitomizes much that was characteristic of the period and the locale. Bishop of Jerusalem for nearly forty years, he experienced three expulsions from his see, these due as much to politico-ecclesiastical rivalry as to his participation in the contemporary theological controversies, in which Cyril played an important and still disputed role. The present volume carries about half of the bishop's most valuable production, a series of catechetical lectures for Lent and Easter week. The introductory lecture (the Procatechesis) admitted the catechumens to the instructions to follow. Of these, the Catecheses proper, the first twelve appear in this first volume, the remaining six, with the five Mystagogical Lectures (for Easter Week), are in volume 2. The conferences are based firmly in the sacraments and in the successive articles of the Creed. It is upon the Creed and the various forms of it with which Cyril was involved that much of the extended Introduction centers. Cyril’s body of catechetical lectures, which has been called “one of the most precious treasures of Christian antiquity,” can make a telling contribution to the catechetical renewal within the Church of today and to the study and devotion of clergy and lay-folk alike. |
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