Monotheism and Christology

Abstract

The Trinitarian concept of God and the christological claim that two natures, human and divine, were present in the one Christ. Scripture provided a way of accounting for the veneration of Jesus within the fundamentally monotheistic outlook which had always characterised Christianity, but its principal purpose was to hang on to the lines anchoring Christian belief in the created order and in the material realities of a genuinely historical life. The evidence for tracing the course of the monarchian controversies is confused, not least because the names of leading figures, such as Sabellius and Paul of Samosata, were used as labels to condemn rivals in later controversies. Origen, thinker of the Alexandrian church, developed a complex form of logos theology, which probably owed something to his predecessor in Alexandria, the Jewish philosopher Philo, and which, for good or ill, left a legacy for subsequent theologians of the east.

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