Theresia Hainthaler

Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology

Oriental Churches and their legacy belong to the after-math of the Council of Chalcedon (451). Therefore, already the Festschrift Das Konzil von Chalkedon, edited in 1951-1954 by A. Grillmeier and H. Bacht, incorporated, to a large extent, studies in these fields. The later ecumenical dialogues, from 1964 onwards, could rely upon such studies, vice...

Christian faith in Ethiopia, from the beginning in the 4th century with bishop Frumentius and later in a second phase of evangelization by the so-called « Nine Saints », was formed under the influence of Jewish, Cyrillian-Alexandrian and Syrian influences. Therefore certain peculiarities of Ethiopian christology can be explaines, especially the mes...