The Expression “Before the Ages” in Early Christian Statements concerning the Origin of the Son from the Father in the Period before the Council of Nicaea (325)

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Expression “Before the Ages” in Early Christian Statements concerning the Origin of the Son from the Father in the Period before the Council of Nicaea (325)

Original language description

The article focuses on “before the ages” (πρὸ τῶν αἰώνων) as the expression regularly used in the Christian creed in the phrase concerning the eternal origin of the Son of God in God the Father (“the Son of God begotten before the ages from the Father”). It searches for the reason why it invariably occurs in the post-Nicene creeds produced during the fourth century, in spite of the fact that Arius seems to have used this term to explain his notion of coming to being of the Son of God and, on the contrary, the anti-Arian theologians, Alexandrian bishops Alexander and Athanasius, employed it rather hesitantly and Nicaenum does not mention it at all. In this context, the line of inquiry is centred on the question whether “before the ages” could have been regarded as a term of biblical origin by the theologians of the early Church. As a result, Origen seems to have used “before the ages” several times referring to various biblical passages, especially 1 Cor 2:7, whereas, unfortunately, his authorship of exegeses from the commentaries on Psalms and Proverbs cannot be regarded as certain. In general, wide awareness of the biblical origin of the expression “before the ages” cannot be evidenced from the treatises of the pre-Nicene Christian writers.

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60303 - Theology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Communio Viatorum

ISSN

0010-3713

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Volume of the periodical

64

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

8-36

UT code for WoS article

000950496700002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85144937472