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Analysis of the second letters of the correspondence between Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorio
Železník, Pavel ; Milko, Pavel (advisor) ; Ventura, Václav (referee)
This master's thesis is dedicated to the theological disputation upon the using of the title Theotokos for Virgin Mary that had been finally resolved at the Third Ecumenical Council in Ephesus in 431 AD. The first part deals with the crucial moments of deepening theological knowledge in the Church history in order to show a development of the disputation mainly in the 3rd and 4th century. Although Christology wasn't the main theme of the teachings of the Church in that early period some of the theologians especially Irenaeus, Origen, Paul of Samosata and Apollinaris of Laodicea also raised some issues in the field of Christology. The end of the first part offers an inside into the theological mindset of both sides of the disputation - Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodor of Mopsuestia on the one side and the Orthodox fathers Athanasius, the Cappadocian Fathers, Didymus the Blind and John Chrysostome on the other side. The second part presents the written sources of the disputation and offers an insight to its beginning and development. The third and main part focuses on the correspondence between Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius mainly on their Second Epistles containing the major topics of the disputation. It discusses a content of these two epistles and also analyses and compares theological arguments of both...
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Cyril's of Alexandria correspondence with Nestorios
Železník, Pavel ; Milko, Pavel (advisor) ; Luptáková, Marina (referee)
Korespondence Cyrila Alexandrijského s Nestóriem Cyril's of Alexandria corespondence with Nestorios Pavel Železník The theme of this work is christological contradiction solved on the third Saint General Council of Ephesus in 431. It is focused on correspondence that preceded the convening of Council, especially the Second Epistle of Cyril to Nestorius. It shows its content and discuss mentioned arguments. The reason of the contradiction was that Nestorius denied Virgin Mary the title of Theotokos and the subject of controversy was the question of the hypostatic union. The work summarizes previous dogmatic development of christology to justify the title of Theotokos. It presents the efforts to formulate the answer to the question that Jesus Christ had already asked his disciples: "Who do people say the Son of Man is?"And that since the beginning of triadology, through solving the question at the first two General Councils, up to the Christology itself. The work shows how the christological questions were formed by Origen, Paul of Samosata, Arius, Saint Eustathius, Apollinaris of Laodicea and Saint Athanasius during the 3rd and 4th century with respect to the methodology of the two major theological schools, Alexandrian and Antiochian. From defenders of Nicene religion, who saw the christological...
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