Human Salvation in Early Christianity: Exploring the Theology of Physicalist Soteriology

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Ellen Scully (Seton Hall University, New Jersey)

Human Salvation in Early Christianity

Exploring the Theology of Physicalist Soteriology

Ellen Scully (Seton Hall University, New Jersey)

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Cambridge University Press
23 January 2025

Christianity; Christian theology; Aspects of religion (non-Christian); Sacred texts

Human salvation has been at the heart of Christian theological debate ever since the earliest centuries of Christianity. In this period, some Christians argued that because all of humanity falls in Adam, the incarnation of Christ, who is the second Adam, must also have a universal effect. Ellen Scully here presents the first historical study of Early Christian theology regarding physicalist soteriology, a logic by which Christ's incarnation has universal effects independent of individual belief or consent. Analyzing the writings of Athanasius, Hilary of Poitiers, Marius Victorinus, Gregory of Nyssa, Cyril of Alexandria, and Maximus the Confessor, she offers an overview of the historical rise and fall of the theological logic of physicalist soteriology. Scully also provides an analysis of how Early Christian theological debates concerning ascetism and ensoulment models have caused Christian narratives of salvation history to become individualistic, and suggests how a contemporary study of physicalist soteriology can help reverse this trend.

By: Ellen Scully (Seton Hall University New Jersey)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009525336
ISBN 10: 1009525336
Pages: 339
Publication Date: 23 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. The rise and fall of early Christian Physicalist Soteriology; 2. Scholarly approaches to Physicalist Soteriology; 3. Athanasius: Pneumatological Physicalism; 4. Hilary of Poitiers: collective Physicalism; 5. Marius Victorinus: 'Harnackian-style' platonic Physicalism; 6. Gregory of Nyssa: delayed Physicalism; 7. Cyril of Alexandria: resurrection Physicalism; 8. Maximus the confessor: creationist Physicalism; 9. The almost, but not quite, Physicalists; 10. Constructive approaches to the Historical reality of Physicalism; Bibliography; Index.

Ellen Scully is Associate Professor and Chair of Undergraduate Theology at Seton Hall University. She has authored Physicalist Soteriology in Hilary of Poitiers (2015) and co-edited New Narratives for Old: The Historical Method of Reading Early Christian Theology (2022).