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| Author's Preface | |
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| Preface to Second Edition | |
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| Translator's Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Birth of Christology | |
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| Biblical Starting-Points for Patristic Christology | |
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| The Present Situation | |
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| New Testament Outlines | |
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| The christology of the primitive community | |
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| The synoptists | |
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| Pauline christology | |
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| Pauline christological formulas | |
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| The 'Word made flesh' | |
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| First Growth: the Christology of the Second Century | |
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| Christological Variants | |
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| An archaic heritage: Christ and Jewish-Christian theology | |
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| A popular picture of Christ | |
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| Myth, legend and belief: the popular theology of the mysteries of the life of Jesus | |
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| Solvere Christum (1 John 4. 3): on the christological heresies of the second century | |
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| Martyrdom and apology | |
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| The Testimony of Pastors and Teachers of the Church from Clement of Rome to Irenaeus | |
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| Clement of Rome | |
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| Ignatius of Antioch | |
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| Justin, philosopher and martyr | |
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| Melito of Sardis | |
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| Irenaeus of Lyons | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| From Hippolytus to Origen: the Foundation of Christology as Speculative Theology and the Emergences of Hellenism | |
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| The Logos Doctrine of the Apologists | |
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| Hippolytus | |
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| Tertullian | |
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| Tertullian's christology in its historical context | |
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| Sermo in carne | |
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| Novatian | |
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| The Alexandrians | |
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| Clement of Alexandria | |
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| Origen | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The First Theological Interpretations of the Person of Christ: From Origen to Ephesus (431) | |
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| Introduction: Towards Fourth-Century Christology | |
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| The interpretation of the incarnation | |
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| The 'One God' and His 'Logos', the 'Logos' and His 'Flesh', the 'Logos-Sarx' Christology | |
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| Theological Twilight | |
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| Eusebius of Caesarea | |
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| The Logos doctrine of Eusebius before Nicaea | |
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| The incarnate Logos | |
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| The historical influence of Eusebius | |
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| Sapiens Religio--Religiosa Sapientia: On the Christology of Lactantius | |
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| The historical and intellectual background | |
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| The one God and his Son | |
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| Lactantius and spirit christology | |
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| Lactantius as a binitarian | |
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| Lactantius as a subordinationist | |
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| The second birth of the Son of God | |
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| Asterius the Sophist | |
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| Aphrahat the Persian Sage | |
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| Arius and Arianism | |
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| The Father and his Logos | |
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| Gregory Thaumaturgus and Arius | |
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| The 'Logos' and his 'Flesh' | |
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| The Importance of Christology in the Arian System | |
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| The Council of Nicaea (325) and its Interpretation of the Baptismal Kerygma | |
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| Nicaea and the Rise of the Imperial Church | |
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| The Fides Nicaena | |
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| Nicaea and the understanding of the incarnation | |
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| From the Nicene Son and Logos to a Doctrine of the Incarnation | |
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| Marcellus of Ancyra | |
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| Eustathius of Antioch | |
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| The older tradition | |
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| Eustathius as opponent of the 'Logos-sarx' framework | |
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| Between Arianism and Apollinarianism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Eusebius of Emesa | |
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| Athanasius | |
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| The problem | |
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| The activity of the Logos in Christ's humanity | |
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| The death of Christ as a separation of the Logos | |
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| The body as an instrument | |
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| The Tomus ad Antiochenos of 362 | |
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| Athanasius' christological formula | |
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| Apollinarianism | |
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| The 'Heavenly Man' | |
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| Mia Physis | |
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| The Concept of 'Person' | |
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| Retrospect | |
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| The 'Logos-Anthropos' Christology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Earlier Anti-Apollinarianism and the 'Logos-Anthropos' Christology | |
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| The Action of Epiphanius of Cyprus and of Pope Damasus | |
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| Diodore of Tarsus | |
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| New Trends After Origen | |
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| The Alexandrian Development of a Christological Psychology | |
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| Cappadocian Christology | |
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| Evagrius Ponticus | |
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| Origenist Christology in the West | |
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| Nemesius of Emesa | |
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| The Western Contribution | |
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| The Eve of Ephesus | |
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| The Younger Cyril and the 'Logos-sarx' Christology | |
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| The Antiochene Picture of Christ | |
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| John Chrysostom and his picture of Christ | |
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| Theodore of Mopsuestia and classical Antiochene christology | |
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| The critic of the 'Logos-sarx' framework | |
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| Christological thought | |
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| Christological formula | |
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| Kerygma--Theology--Dogma: Ephesus and Chalcedon (431-451) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Scandalum Oecumenicum of Nestorius and the Council of Ephesus | |
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| Introduction: Ecclesiastical Kerygma, Theology and the Orthodoxy of Nestorius | |
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| Nestorius and the Kerygma (or Dogma) of the Church | |
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| The Position of Historical Research | |
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| The Language and Thought of Nestorius at Ephesus | |
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| Defence | |
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| The Christ of the Patriarch Nestorius | |
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| The Nestorius Question and Rome | |
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| The Case of Leporius | |
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| The Case of Nestorius at Rome | |
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| Cyril of Alexandria, the Adversary of Nestorius | |
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| Cyril and Apollinarius | |
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| Ambiguous Language | |
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| Cyril and the Concept of Person | |
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| The Council of Ephesus | |
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| From Ephesus to Chalcedon | |
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| The Reactions of the Antiochenes | |
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| Theodoret of Cyrus | |
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| Andrew of Samosata | |
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| Nestorius and his Liber Heraclidis | |
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| Theology of two natures | |
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| The christological formula of the Liber Heraclidis | |
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| Christological formula and thought | |
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| The Eve of Chalcedon | |
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| Proclus | |
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| The Trial of Eutyches and the Formula of Flavian of Constantinople | |
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| Leo the Great and his Tomus ad Flavianum | |
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| Leo's christological thought in the pre-Chalcedonian period | |
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| Christological formula | |
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| The Council of Chalcedon | |
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| The Dogmatic Formula of Chalcedon | |
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| Chalcedon and the History of Theology | |
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| Epilogue: Chalcedon--End or Beginning? | |
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| The Nestorius Question in Modern Study | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Subjects | |
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| Index of Ancient Authors | |
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| Index of Biblical References | |
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| Index of Modern Scholars | |