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THE NAME

§ 56.

[Div. Ill

of the Old and New Testament, one marvels at the For See Suicer, I., p. 1359). truth" (Theodor. Therap. If the word of God comes to us in these two Testaments.

harmony

in the second place the

word

means

theologein

to explain

a point so fully as to trace it back to God, then it is clear how " Theology " could mean reduction to the mystery •

God.

of the essence of Crenes.

3), tl SrJTrore

I., p.

/xiovpyLa<;

Thus says Theodoret

deoXoyiav

TrporeVa^j^e

Why

"

i.e.

;

/J-rj

tt)?

(^Qucest.

in

rcov oXcov Srj-

did not Moses preface the

creation-narrative with an introduction on the mystery of

the essence of

God ? "

" in the third place, " theolog-ein

If,

in the sense of "to declare some one God," then the divine follows also that " Theology " could signify

was used it

:

Thus

appellation. sius

says Pachymeres in his note on Diony-

Areopagita (Suicer,

dpfjLo^ovra

ovofiara

I.,

p. 300),

rjvcofxevrjv

ra kolvm^

rrj

6eia (pvaei

OeoXoyiav,

eTnypdcjiet,

i.e.

the

names which in general belong to the divine nature, he And since in the bitter conflict against calls theologia unita. the Arians everything hinged on the point of proclaiming Christ as God, " Theology " in this sense became almost

Thus Gregory of synonymous with the Deity of Christ. Nyssa speaks of a Kripvcraeiv ro /jLvar/jptov r?}? OeoXoyim, with his eye on John i. 1, which thus means to say, " to announce the mystery of the Deity of Christ." This Theologia was then placed over against oUovofjiia as the appellation for Thus in Theodoret, Comm. in Heh. iv. his human nature. 14, p. 414:

we ought

to

know

oltcovofMta<; ovofjiara, i.e.

rri<;

riva /xev

Ti]<;

OeoXoyca';, riva 8e

what names belong

to his divine,

this, and what to his human, nature. " Theology " was also used in the sense of the " mystery of the Trinity." The knowledge of God, which as such was the characteristic of Christianity, was contained just in this Thus Athanasius, de Definitionilms^ trinitarian mystery.

In connection with

Tom. tt)?

II., p.

44

:

ayia^ TpmSo9,

the Divine Being is

'EttI t?)? deoXoyia'? fxiav (pvcriv o/jboXo'yovfxev Tp€i<; B' vTroardaeL'i, i.e.

we

confess that in the

Of the mystery of Holy Trinity there

"

only one nature, but a threefold hypostasis."

JEpist.

XXXIV., p.

Photius,

95, wcnrep eirl rrj^ OeoXoyia^ to rpeh 6/xoXo-

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