📗 Libro en inglés FILIATION AND SUBORDINATIONISM

Filiation and Subordinationism, the eleventh volume in the series filiación, is dedicated to the relationship between the identity of the Son of God and the so-called Trinitarian and Christological subordinationism, frequently attributed to pre-Nicene Christian authors. The theological problem specifically addressed here can be formulated. Can pre-Nicene Christology be classified as subordinationist? Yes, no, or in what sense? What is the relationship between pre-Nicene Trinitarian theology and that developed both by Arius and in the time of the Council of Nicaea? Was Arius a conservative Christian or, on the contrary, did he break with the preceding apostolic faith? These are age-old questions worth returning to due to their extraordinary relevance: for faith, since they have a direct impact on the nature of the Mediator Jesus Christ and, therefore, on salvation; for theology, since the greater the ability to situate a theological position in the context of the traditions from which it drew and which it rejected, the better it will be understood. And all of this is intertwined with a term, that of subordinationism, not used univocally in the history of research.