Varieties of Nicene Theology: Phoebadius of Agen, Apollinarius of Laodicea, and Theodore of Mopsuestia (Oxford Early Christian Texts)

Scholarship of the past forty years on the fourth-century Trinitarian controversies has been suspicious of narratives that speak of a well-defined, monolithic, and unchanging theological parties, whether Arians or Nicenes.Against such a narrative, such scholarship has emphasized the development of multiple interrelated positions within theological alliances which exhibit significant diversity among themselves while at the same time being unified in certain fundamental tenets.Each of these traditions of Trinitarian theology emerged in different historical, theological, and polemical contexts in response to the wide variety of different impulses that shaped it.This is especially true for those theologians called "pro-Nicenes" in recent scholarship.This volume provides scholars and students with resources for studying variety among Nicene theologians in the second half of the fourth century.It presents dual-language editions of three lesser-known but seminal Nicene theological texts that