The Flesh Cannot See the Word:

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" The Flesh Cannot See the Word: "
Dirk Krausmüller

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1085320
Doc. No	:	LA128949
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12341128‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Dirk Krausmüller
Title & Author	:	The Flesh Cannot See the Word: [Article] : ‘Nestorianising’ Chalcedonians in the Seventh to Ninth Centuries AD\ Dirk Krausmüller
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Vigiliae Christianae
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	67/2
Page No	:	185–208
Abstract	:	Towards the end of the eighth century the Nestorian Patriarch Timothy convened a council, which condemned several mystics for having held the belief that Christ’s humanity could see his divinity. This article draws attention to a Chalcedonian sermon on the Annunciation whose author shared Patriarch Timothy’s views. Through comparison with the Questions and Answers of Pseudo-Athanasius and with Theodore of Stoudios’ sermon on the Angels it shows that the author of the sermon on the Annunciation participated in a wider Chalcedonian debate about the ability of human beings to see God and the equally invisible angels and souls. Having presented the evidence it makes the case that as regards this topic the Eastern Christian religious discourse had not yet fragmented along sectarian and political boundaries and that throughout the East Christians were experiencing the same anxieties and responding to them in remarkably similar ways. Towards the end of the eighth century the Nestorian Patriarch Timothy convened a council, which condemned several mystics for having held the belief that Christ’s humanity could see his divinity. This article draws attention to a Chalcedonian sermon on the Annunciation whose author shared Patriarch Timothy’s views. Through comparison with the Questions and Answers of Pseudo-Athanasius and with Theodore of Stoudios’ sermon on the Angels it shows that the author of the sermon on the Annunciation participated in a wider Chalcedonian debate about the ability of human beings to see God and the equally invisible angels and souls. Having presented the evidence it makes the case that as regards this topic the Eastern Christian religious discourse had not yet fragmented along sectarian and political boundaries and that throughout the East Christians were experiencing the same anxieties and responding to them in remarkably similar ways.
Descriptor	:	Annunciation
Descriptor	:	Christology
Descriptor	:	CPG 2268
Descriptor	:	Patriarch Timothy
Descriptor	:	Questions and Answers
Descriptor	:	Theodore of Stoudios
Descriptor	:	Vision of God
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12341128‬