Cyril of Jerusalem (Person)
Cyril of Jerusalem
313 AD - 386 AD
- Bishop of Jerusalem 350 - 386
- declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIII in 1883
He undoubtedly gave a thorough adhesion to the Nicene Orthodoxy, even if he did avoid the debatable term homoousios, he expressed its sense in many passages, which exclude equally Patripassianism, Sabellianism, and the formula "there was a time when the Son was not" attributed to Arius.
In other points he takes the ordinary ground of the Eastern Fathers, as in the emphasis he lays on the freedom of the will, the autexousion (αὐτεξούσιον), and in his view of the nature of sin.
To him sin is the consequence of freedom, not a natural condition. The body is not the cause, but the instrument of sin. The remedy for it is repentance, on which he insists. Like many of the Eastern Fathers, he focuses on high moral living as essential to true Christianity.
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