Erdő Péter (szerk.): Bűn és isteni irgalom mint a mai ember problémája - Studia Theologica Budapestinensia 30. (2002)
László Vanyó: The Patristic interpretation of 'Redemptio'
The Khristos-Didaskalos is at the beginning the Word with God (Jn 1,1)/ Creator, life and then he appears as a Teacher, that as God He gives his life to the disciples. "This is the New Song, namely, the manifestation which has but now shined forth among us, of Him, who was in the beginning, the pre-existens Saviour appeared on earth; He who exists in God (because "the Word was with God") appeared as our teacher; the Word appeared by whom all things have been created. He who gave us life in the beginning when as Creator formed us, taught us how to live rightly by appearing as our teacher, in order that here after as God He might supply us with life everlasting"18 "0 amazing mystery! The Lord has sunk down, but man rose up; and he who was driven from Paradise gains a graetcr prize, haeven, on becoming obedient. Wherefore it seems to me, that since the Word Himself came to us from heaven, we ought no longer to go to human teaching, to Athens and the rest of Greece, or to Ionia in our curiosity. If our teacher is He who has filled the universe with holy powers, creation, salvation, beneficence, lawgiving, prophecy, teaching, this teacher now instructs us in all things, and the whole world has become an Athens and a Greece through the Word"19 The content of the idea "Khristos-didaskalos" is the salvific dispensation of God whose culminating point is the Incarnation of the Logos and the redemptive death of Christ; 1. Christ is the single Teacher contrary the false teachers; 2. The doctrine of the divine teacher transcends the science of the philosophers and still that of the OT prophets; 3. Christ is the Logos-didaskalos who is the author of the authentic philosophy who spoke through the Holy Spirit by the prophets; 4. The words of the praeexisting Creator-Logos are simultaneously realitys, theres is not hiatus between word and action; 5. He permeates the whole creation and dispensation; 6. The school of Khristos-didaskalos is the Church; 7. The goal of the educative teacher activity of Khristos-didaskalos is the deificatio (theosis): "and granting to us the Father's truly great, divine and inalienable portion, making man divine by heavenly doctrine" (ouraniő didaskaliä theopoion ton anthrőpon).20 18 Clem.Alex. Prot. 1,7,3 Loeb CL 18-19, Transi. G.W.Butterworth 19 Protr. XI, 111, 3, -112,1 Loeb CL, Transi. G.W.Butterworth 239 20 Protr. 11,81,1 Loeb CL, 244. Transi. G.W. Butterworth 32
