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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| A Christological Nile Expedition From the Delta to Lake Tana (451-639/642) | |
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| Alexandrian-Greek Christology | |
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| The Christology of the Patriarchs | |
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| Timothy Aelurus: the foundation of Alexandrian-Greek Christology in the rejection of Chalcedon | |
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| The secret patriarch of Alexandria | |
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| A christological battle on two fronts | |
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| On the truth of the incarnation of Christ | |
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| The polemic against the 'Nestorianism' of Leo I's Tome to Flavian and of the Council of Chalcedon | |
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| The different concept of nature | |
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| A questionable argument for the divinity of the incarnate One | |
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| The Christology of Timothy and its aporias | |
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| Appeal to tradition | |
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| The aporia of the mia-physis formula | |
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| The struggle between Chalcedonians and Anti-Chalcedonians | |
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| The peaceful Chalcedonian, Timothy 'Wobble-Cap' | |
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| Peter Mongus, anti-Chalcedonian patriarch 'by Henoticon's grace' | |
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| The successors of Peter Mongus | |
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| Timothy IV (III), Patriarch of Alexandria at the time of the controversy between Julian and Severus | |
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| Gaianus and the Gaianites | |
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| On the doctrine of the Gaianites | |
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| Theodosius, Patriarch of Alexandria, spiritual heir of Severus of Antioch | |
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| Sollicitudo omnium Ecclesiarum | |
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| 'Causa multiplicis certaminis' | |
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| The basic traits of Theodosian Christology | |
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| His authorities | |
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| His confession of faith | |
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| His heresiology | |
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| Connections with Severan terminology | |
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| The one energeia | |
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| The development of two hierarchies | |
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| The Chalcedonian hierarchy: the Melkites | |
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| The Melkite patriarchs of 538-580 | |
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| Eulogius, a neo-Chalcedonian theologian of mediation? | |
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| The anti-Chalcedonian hierarchy: the Copts | |
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| The Coptic hierarchy after 575 | |
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| Damian, head of the 'Monophysite' world | |
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| Benjamin, Coptic patriarch and leader under Persian, Byzantine and Islamic rule | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Christology of the Scholars | |
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| The poet Nonnus of Panopolis and his fellow countrymen | |
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| Cyrus of Panopolis | |
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| Pamprepius | |
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| Nonnus of Panopolis | |
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| Preliminary questions | |
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| The christological standpoint of Nonnus's paraphrase of John | |
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| General characterization | |
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| The christological statement of Nonnus's paraphrase of John | |
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| Dioscorus of Aphrodito | |
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| Two Alexandrian exegetes | |
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| The presbyter Ammonius | |
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| The deacon Olympiodore | |
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| John Philoponus, philosopher and theologian in Alexandria | |
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| The man and his work | |
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| The Christology of John Philoponus | |
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| The basic traits of Philoponian Christology in the polemic Tmemata | |
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| The Diaetetes and its conceptuality | |
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| The manner of the union | |
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| The number 'two' | |
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| On the intellectual division | |
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| On the picture of Christ of John Philoponus | |
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| The letter to Justinian | |
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| John Philoponus and tritheism | |
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| The anti-tritheistic initiative of Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople | |
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| John Philoponus and his teaching on the resurrection | |
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| The resurrection teaching of Patriarch Eutychius | |
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| Final evaluation | |
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| 'Cosmas Indicopleustes' | |
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| On the Christology of the Topographia Christiana | |
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| A christological rereading of the Old Testament | |
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| An optimistic anthropology | |
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| The eschatological viewpoint | |
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| A brief synthesis of the Christology of the Topographia Christiana | |
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| The question of 'Nestorianism' | |
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| The trinitarian-christological credo of Cosmas and its orthodoxy | |
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| Cosmas and tradition | |
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| The 'Province of Coptic Christology' | |
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| Shenoute as the founder of Coptic Christology | |
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| A new source for Shenoute's Christology and for Coptic theology in general | |
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| The Nag Hammadi tractates and the monastic movement in Upper Egypt (Thebaid) | |
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| Special indications of Shenoute as the author of the new exhortation | |
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| A call for help from Patriarch Dioscorus (444-451/454) to Shenoute | |
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| Shenoute and Nestorius in Upper Egypt | |
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| The Annals of Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria as background description | |
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| Shenoute's exhortation as a mirror of the faith situation of the Coptic church between 431 and 451 | |
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| The spread of superstition | |
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| The threat to the Nicene faith in God and Christ | |
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| Angel Christology and the creatureliness of the Son | |
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| The two seraphim of Is 6,2 | |
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| Injury to the Nicene and Nicene-Constantinopolitan faith | |
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| The dispute over prayer to Jesus | |
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| Shenoute as witness to prayer to Jesus | |
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| Gnostic-Origenistic infiltration of 'apocryphal' origin | |
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| Double creation | |
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| 'Large' and 'small' history | |
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| The 'gospel of Jesus the Son of God, generated by the angels' (generazione degli angeli) | |
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| The denial of the 'small history' of Jesus on earth | |
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| The Pascha in heaven and on earth | |
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| Human beings in this 'large' and 'small' history: Origenism | |
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| Marcion or Mani? | |
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| Christology and understanding of the Eucharist in dissolution | |
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| Shenoute and Nestorius | |
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| Shenoute's own report | |
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| Shenoute's quotations from Nestorius | |
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| Shenoute and Nestorius in legend | |
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| Summary | |
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| A second christological catechesis of Shenoute | |
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| Sodalis Dei et Christi amicus. A closing report on Shenoute's Christology | |
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| A biblical Christocentrism | |
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| A salvation-economic theology of the one history of creation and salvation | |
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| A kerygmatic theology | |
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| A pre-Chalcedonian Christology in service to the patriarch Dioscorus | |
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| Excursus: On the wider Coptic-christological context of Shenoute's exhortation | |
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| Anthropomorphism against Origenism in the 'Life of Aphu' | |
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| Coptic Origenists against anthropomorphism | |
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| 'Agathonicus' between Christian Gnostics and Patriarch Theophilus/Shenoute | |
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| In the light and shadow of the master: Archimandrite Besa (d. after 474) | |
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| On Christology in the liturgical prayer of the Coptic church | |
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| The three leading anaphoras of the Egyptian liturgy | |
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| The liturgy of Mark (Cyril) | |
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| The liturgy of Basil | |
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| The liturgy of Gregory | |
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| The christological peculiarities of the three Egyptian eucharistic prayers | |
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| The addressing of Christ in the Gregory anaphora and in the other eucharistic prayers | |
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| Epiclesis | |
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| Christological elements in some other Coptic anaphoras | |
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| Christological peculiarities in the lectionaries | |
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| The Book of Psalmody | |
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| The Coptic synaxarion | |
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| The 'Cross of Christ' Over Nubia | |
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| The silent 'eremite mission' in pre-Chalcedonian Nubia | |
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| The 'official' evangelization of Nubia in the sixth century | |
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| The missionary expedition of the priest Julian (542-548) | |
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| The missionary expedition of Bishop Longinus (566-580) | |
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| The mission of 569-575 | |
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| The evangelization of the Alodaeans | |
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| The Chalcedonian mission in the Middle Kingdom | |
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| The further history of Christian Nubia | |
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| In search of Nubian faith in Christ | |
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| The iconographic testimony | |
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| The liturgical testimony | |
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| Veneration of the cross in Nubia | |
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| Christ in a New Messianic Kingdom Faith in Christ in Ethiopia | |
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| The introduction of Christianity | |
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| The mission of the 'nine saints' | |
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| Axum as the first Christian kingdom of non-Chalcedonian confession and its crusade into southern Arabia | |
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| The new source situation | |
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| The writings of Bishop Simeon of Beth-Arsam | |
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| The Martyrium Arethae | |
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| The events | |
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| The Conference of Ramla (520/521) | |
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| Actions of Bishop Simeon of Beth-Arsam | |
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| The crusade of King Kaleb | |
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| The confession of Christ of the martyrs of Himyar | |
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| Christocentrism | |
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| Yusuf's demand on the Christians | |
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| The confession of the martyrs | |
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| The religious-cultural background of Ethiopian Christian faith | |
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| Jewish influences | |
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| The Ethiopian church and its liturgical apparatus | |
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| The liturgical cycle of feasts | |
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| Circumcision and other observances | |
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| The Jewish Targum in the Ethiopian Tergum | |
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| The Falashas | |
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| Cyrillian-Alexandrian influences | |
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| Syrian influences | |
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| Translations from Arabic | |
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| Faith in Christ in the Ethiopian church | |
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| Jewish and Jewish-Christian motifs in Ethiopian Christology | |
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| Translatio Regni Messianici | |
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| Jesus the 'anointed One' | |
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| Patristic discussion: Qerellos -- Philoxenus of Mabbug | |
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| The 'anointment' in the Ethiopian theology of the late Middle Ages and the modern period | |
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| In the Mashafa Milad | |
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| A church history text | |
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| 'The Mirror of Insight' | |
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| A new phase in the dispute | |
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| The conflict under King Yohannes | |
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| The baptism of Jesus in the Jordan | |
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| The baptism of Jesus in Ethiopian formulas of faith | |
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| The baptism of Jesus in Ethiopian anaphoras | |
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| Names and numbers | |
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| The mysticism of the symbols | |
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| Retrospective | |
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| Limitations | |
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| Jewish Christian -- and yet Christology from above | |
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| Nearness to and distance from Judaism | |
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| Relationship to universal church Christology, its terminology and systematic representation | |
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| Negative | |
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| Positive | |
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| Ethiopia and the conceptual language of the universal church | |
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| The position of Jesus in the worship and prayer of the Ethiopian church | |
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| Christ in the structure of the church year | |
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| The alleged Monophysitism of the Ethiopian anaphoras | |
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| Chalcedonian-anti-Chalcedonian conceptual language in the liturgy? | |
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| Christ in the priestly prayer of the hours | |
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| An example of extra-liturgical prayer to Christ | |
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| Final reflections | |
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| Alexandria, the 'Christ-loving City' | |
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| The Archimandrite Shenoute and his christological significance | |
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| Nubia | |
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| Ethiopia | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Indexes | |
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| Biblical references | |
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| Words in ancient languages | |
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| Ancient authors | |
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| Modern authors | |
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| Subjects | |