Excerpt from Sancti Athanasii Opera Dogmatica Selecta: Ex Recensione Bern. De Montfaucon Cum Ejusdem Interpretatione Et Adnotationibus
Qui in historia tbeologiae litteraria versati sunt, sciunt collectio nes scriptorum ecclesiasticorum, 'quae promiscue bibliotbecae patrum dicuntur, pro diversis editorum consiliis delectu librorum multum dif ferre diversaque ratione esse compositas. Alias enim varios veteris et madiae aetatis scriptores ecclesiasticos, qui pandora litterarum mo numents reliquerunt, mmplectuntur eorumque opera quae supersunt omnia continent aut secundum certas materiarum classes aut ex ae tatum, quibus floruerunt illi, ordine digesta. Cuius generis sunt amplissima: illae Bibliotkeme patrum Parisicnses Coloniensis, Lug dunensis, Gallandiana, quarum editores id studuerunt etticere, ut ad nniversam antiquitatem ecdosiastioam illustrandam quam plurime eiusdem monuments viris doctis in usum parata instructaque paterent. Aliac angustioribus finibus concluduntur et scripta unius tantum clas sis vel argumento formaque vel scriptorum aetate distinctae lectoribus praebent: quas ad singularia quaedam studia theologics excitanda et sustcntauda adomatas esse apparet. Inter buiusmodi bibliotbecas sive collectiones patrum varie inscriptas locum obtinent eas, quibus mmplurium patrum tractatus dogmatici ac polemici continentur. Sicut enim entant Bibliotheca patrum asceticae et cona'onatoriae h. E. Opu sculorum ascetico et bomiliarum sermonumque collectiones, ita do gmatica: quoque babemus viris doctis ad studium tbeologiae dogma ticae et polemicae promovendum institutas, etsi nulla, quod ego sciam, Bibliotheca patnm dogmatica inscripta est. Namque cac partim pro dictant, antoquam usu recaptum esset collectiones scriptorum ecclesiasti corum appellari bibliothccas patrum, qua appellatione Margarinus de la Bigne, editor primae Bibliothecae patrum Parisiensis a. 1575. Pri mus usus est: partim minoris sunt melis vel rccentiores continent scl'iptores, quam ut s;flendidum illud nomen mareri potuerint: partim ad singularan quondam usum destinatae et accommodatae sunt, quem editores statuerunt in fronte indicandum esse. Unus Roeslerus col lectionem ampliorem, de qua infra dicetur, Bibliotheca potr... in scripsit, nec tamen simpliciter dogmaticam nominavit.
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St. Cyril of Alexandria (376 - 444)
Was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. He was enthroned when the city was at the height of its influence and power within the Roman Empire. Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the late-4th and 5th centuries. He was a central figure in the Council of Ephesus in 431, which led to the deposition of Nestorius as Patriarch of Constantinople.Cyril is counted among the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church, and his reputation within the Christian world has resulted in his titles Pillar of Faith and Seal of all the Fathers. Cyril regarded the embodiment of God in the person of Jesus Christ to be so mystically powerful that it spread out from the body of the God-man into the rest of the race, to reconstitute human nature into a graced and deified condition of the saints, one that promised immortality and transfiguration to believers. Nestorius, on the other hand, saw the incarnation as primarily a moral and ethical example to the faithful, to follow in the footsteps of Jesus. Cyril's constant stress was on the simple idea that it was God who walked the streets of Nazareth (hence Mary was Theotokos, meaning "God bearer", which became in Latin "Mater Dei or Dei Genetrix", or Mother of God), and God who had appeared in a transfigured humanity. Nestorius spoke of the distinct "Jesus the man" and "the divine Logos" in ways that Cyril thought were too dichotomous, widening the ontological gap between man and God in a way that some of his contemporaries believed would annihilate the person of Christ.
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