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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....

exposition probably demonstrates, it may try to do too much. It requires a ‘Cyrillian insight’, something his detractors, past and present, lack. In the course of expounding, and so clarifying, the meaning of the mia physis formula, Cyril conceived and formulated a major christological innovation concerning the true character of the incarnational ‘becoming’ and the ensuing union between the Son/Word of God and his humanity. This is why he was willing, in the end,
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