Nicaea and Its Legacy
An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology
Lewis Ayres
Table of Contents
I. Towards a Controversy
1. Points of Departure
2. Theological Trajectories in the Early Fourth Century I
3. Theological Trajectories in the Early Fourth Century II
4. Confusion and Controversy: AD 325-340
5. The Creation of `Arianism': AD 340-350
II. The Emergence of Pro-Nicene Theology
6. Shaping the Alternatives: AD 350-360
7. The Beginnings of Rapprochement
8. Basil of Caesarea and the Development of Pro-Nicene Theology
9. The East from Valens to Theodosius
10. Victory and the Struggle for Definition
III. Understanding Pro-Nicene Theology
11. On the Contours of Mystery
12. `The First and Brightest Light'
13. `Walk Towards Him Shining'
14. `On Not Three Gods': Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology
15. The Grammar of Augustine's Trinitarian Theology
16. In Spite of Hegel, Fire and Sword
Epilogue: On Teaching the Fourth Century