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The Theology of St. Cyril of Alexandria: A Critical Appreciation is unavailable, but you can change that!

There is no book in English that treats the whole of Cyril’s theological thought. In the past scholars have normally focused on Cyril’s Christology and left largely unexamined the remainder of his theological thought. Thus the English-speaking scholarly community has never fully appreciated the breadth, the depth and the immense significance of Cyril’s theology. This volume is therefore unique....

or that the flesh changed into the Word. For each remains what it is by nature and Christ is one from both’.15 Cyril realized that the incarnational ‘becoming’ was not like the caterpillar changing into the butterfly where the caterpillar ceases to exist in the metamorphic change. For him the Johannine phrase ‘and dwelt among us’, indicated that, while the Son did actually become man, he did not change into man, for it was the unchanged Son himself who now dwelt among us as man. ‘The Theologian’
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