Front matter
THE FATHERS
OF THE CHURCH
A NEW TRANSLATION
VOLUME 61
THE FATHERS
OF THE CHURCH
A NEW TRANSLATION
Roy JOSEPH DEFERRARI
Editorial Director Emeritus
EDITORIAL BOARD
BERNARD M. PEEBLES
PAUL J. MORIN
The Catholic University of America Editorial Director The Catholic University of America Managing Editor
ROBERT P. RUSSELL, O.S.A.
Villanova University
THOMAS P. HALTON
The Catholic University of America
MARTIN R. P. MCGUIRE
The Catholic University of America
WILLIAM R. TONGUE
The Catholic University of America
HERMIGILD DRESSLER, O.F.M.
The Catholic University of America
SR. M. JOSEPHINE BRENNAN, I.H.M.
Marywood College
MSGR. JAMES A. MAGNER
The Catholic University of America
REDMOND A. BURKE, C.S.V.
The Catholic University of America
THE WORKS
OF SAINT CYRIL
OF JERUSALEM
Volume 1 Translated by
LEO P. McCAULEY, S.].
Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts and
ANTHONY A. STEPHENSON
University of Exeter England
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
Washington, D. C. 20017
NIHIL OBSTAT:
JOHN C. SELNER, 5.5., S.T.D.
Censor Librorum
IMPRIMATUR:
~PATRICK CARDINAL A. O'BOYLE, D.D.
Archbishop of Washington November 15, 1968 The nihil obstat and imprimatur are official declarations that a book or pamphlet is free of doctrinal or moral error. No implication is contained therein that those who have granted the nihil obstat and the imprimatur agree with the content, opinions, or statements expressed.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 68-55980 Copyright © 1969 by
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS, INC.
All rights reserved First Paperback Reprint 2005 ISBN 0-8132-0061-X (cl) ISBN 0-8132-1431-9 (pbk)
CONTENTS Page General Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Select Bibliography ................................ lX Abbreviations ..................................... xi General Introduction 1. The Lenten Lectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. Cyril and "Gnosis" ...........................
3. The Historical Situation ......................
4. Life of Cyril ................................
5. Cyril's Theology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6. The Creed of Jerusalem ("]")..................
Texts of the Creeds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Introductory Lecture (Procatechesis). . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lenten Lectures (Catecheses) Foreword to the Catecheses .......................
Catecheses I-XII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Indices ........................................... 253 v
GENERAL FOREWORD
Father Leo P. McCauley is responsible for the translation, with notes, of the Lenten (pre-baptismal) Lectures 1-12. Father
A. A. Stephenson is responsible for the General Introduction and the Procatechesis. Except where otherwise noted, the text translated is that of the W. K. Reischl and J. Rupp edition of the works of Cyril (Munich 1848-1860).
Father Stephenson writes as follows on certain matters:
My general introduction is heavily indebted to many scholars. While most of these debts are indicated, however inadequately and implicitly, in the Select Bibliography, I gladly mention here how much lowe to that great CyriIIine scholar, Dom A. A. Toutee, O.S.B., and to the Patristic Greek Lexicon edited by Dr. G. W. H.
Lampe, who has conferred an inestimable boon on all students of the Greek Fathers. Instructive, however, as Toutee's dissertations, notes, and critical apparatus stilI are, there is as yet no modern critical edition of the works of Cyril, and it is good news that this need is very soon to be supplied by Pere E. Bihain. Throughout the volume
"Lecture" may stand for Catechesis; in the General Introduction, "Eusebius" is always Eusebius of Caesarea,
"Basil" is always Basil of Ancyra, "the East" does not include Egypt, and "Eastern theology" refers to the tradition originated by Origen and continued by, among others, Eusebius.
A further volume in the series will contain, in addition to the Sermon on the Paralytic and the Letter to Constantius, the Lenten Lectures 13-18 and the lectures on the sacramental mysteries (Mystagogicae) delivered at Jerusalem during Easter vii
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ST. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM
week, although the balance of probability slightly favors the view that these Mystagogical Catecheses are, at least in their present form, the work of Cyril's successor, John of Jerusalem.
BERNARD M. PEEBLES
Editorial Director