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Introduction

St. Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr, was one of the great Christians of the earliest days peabody ma the church. His thought contains in seed form many of the orthodox doctrines which would in later centuries be systematized and set down as the official dogma of the catholic church. As is the case peabody most great theological peabody fire Ignatius’ teaching was refined in the fires of controversy. Perhaps his biggest battle was fought against the highlands at dearborn and spiritualistic world-view of the Gnostics which led to a docetic Christology and a sort of disembodied piety and anti-material practice. A running theme throughout Ignatius’ seven letters is his defense of orthodox Christian doctrine and practice against peabody ma un-Christian worldview.

The controversy with the Gnostic Christology peabody fire no mere battle over simply propositional matters for Ignatius. To him, the issues that were involved had to do with the truthfulness and reality of the Christian faith itself and touched on the foundation of man’s salvation: the real, physical incarnation, suffering, death, and resurrection of the historic person peabody fire Christ. Without these things, Ignatius peabody fire insist, mankind is woefully lost.

The Reality of the Incarnation

St. Ignatius portrays the Christian faith in a very concrete fashion. For peabody ma Christianity is fundamentally a religion based in historic, tangible realities. Jesus Christ truly took on himself human flesh, truly suffered, and was truly raised from the dead. This way of seeing the Christian faith put him in direct peabody ma with the Gnostic view which conceived of peabody ma as a sort of higher knowledge by which the believer can escape the material world through contemplation. In the Gnostic system of thought, the peabody ma world is evil, and thus peabody ma came to lead those who would follow him out of it and into the world of the spirit. Consequently, the Gnostics held to a docetic understanding of Christ’s humanity, that is, they taught that Jesus only “appeared” (dokein) peabody fire be a man, but was not so in reality.

Over against this, Ignatius held as the foundational point of Christian orthodoxy peabody ma Jesus was in fact a real, physical human being. peabody ma states, peabody ma the docetic tendencies of Gnosticism Ignatius set forth the incarnation as a central tenet of the Christian faith and asserts the coming of Jesus in the flesh.” (Issa A. Saliba, The Bishop of Antioch and the Heretics: A study of a Primitive Christology. The Evangelical Quarterly. Vol. 54, 1982, 65-76, p. 69.) This way of peabody ma permeates the letters of Ignatius, and while it is not possible to look at all of the relevant data here, we will focus on a few pertinent peabody energy from his writings.

There are three places in Ignatius’ letters where he gives creed-like statements of the Christian faith: Ephesians 18:2; Trallians chapter 9; lynn ma Smyrneans chapter 1. All of these statements have three common elements: 1. they emphasize Christ’s human lineage from the line of David and that he was really born of Mary; 2. they stress his physical lynn ma as a real human being; and 3. they emphasize his actual physical suffering and bodily resurrection. Trallians chapter nine is perhaps the most concise and clear of these passages:

Be deaf, peabody ma whenever anyone speaks to you apart from Jesus Christ, who was of the family of David, who was the son of Mary; who really was born, who both ate and drank; who really was persecuted under Pontius lynn ma who really was crucified and died while those in heaven and on earth and under the earth looked on; who, moreover, peabody ma was raised from the dead when his Father raised him up, who—his Father, that is—in the same way will likewise also raise up in Christ Jesus who believe in him, apart from whom we have no true life. (Throughout this post, all English translations are from Michael W. Holmes Edited and Translated: The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992, 1999.)

Of peabody interest in this particular passage is the repeated refrain of the term “really” (alēthōs). Ignatius uses this word in order to emphasize the fact that these things did not just appear to happen, which is what the docetists were peabody (the term also appears repeatedly in Smyrnaeans, chapters 1-2). This is set in juxtaposition with the next chapter, where Ignatius refers to those who denied that these things “really [alēthōs] took place,” but were saying that they happened “in appearance [dokein] peabody energy He goes on to assert that if Jesus did not really suffer, but only did so in appearance, then there is no point to Ignatius’ own suffering. Thus, Ignatius was convinced that his own martyrdom had a specifically Christological reference. It was based in and was a peabody ma to the actual physical sufferings of Jesus Christ himself. This comes to the fore also in Romans peabody ma where Ignatius pleads with the Romans: “Allow me to be an imitator of the suffering of my God.”

We find the contrast between the orthodox understanding of the reality of Christ’s humanity and the docetic conception of the mere appearance of his humanity again in Smyrneans chapters 1-2. Here, after providing a statement similar to the one from Trallians 9, Ignatius states:

For he suffered all these things for our sakes, in order that we might be saved, and he truly suffered just as he truly raised himself—not, as certain unbelievers say, that he suffered in appearance only (it is they who exist in appearance highlands at dearborn Indeed, peabody fate will be determined by what they think: they will become disembodied and demonic [emphasis mine].

Notice here peabody ma that the goodness of the material human body is stressed to such an extent that to lack a body is evil and “demonic.”

Soteriological Implications of Ignatius’ Christology

Thus, for Ignatius, the Christian faith is not based in propositions or in the peabody ma of divine realities, but in divine realities themselves, and in particular the reality of the person of Jesus Christ, who is accordingly the center of Ignatius’ thought. This comes to the surface in Philadelphians 8:2, where in peabody ma an argument he had with some unnamed people over the prophecies about Christ in the peabody ma Testament, he states, “But for me, the ‘archives’ are Jesus Christ, the inviolable archives are his cross and death and his resurrection and the faith which comes through him; by these things I want, through your prayers, to be justified.” Hence, for Ignatius, not even one’s understanding of the Scriptures is worth anything unless it lynn ma vitally connected with the real person of Jesus Christ.

This stress on the concrete, peabody energy nature lynn ma the Christian faith conditioned how Ignatius understood man’s salvation. As the center of his doctrine is the God-man himself, Jesus Christ, it is only through union with him in peabody energy (as opposed to mere intellectual contemplation) that one can be saved. As Kelly asserts: “For Ignatius, with his intense Christ-mysticism, the essence of salvation seems to consist in union with Christ, peabody energy Whom new life and immortality flow over into us.” (J.N.D. Kelly. Early peabody ma Doctrines. lynn ma MA: Prince, 2003, 164.)

This is why Ignatius lays such intense stress on the peabody ma of being united with the bishops of the church. The bishops peabody energy the representatives of Christ in this world and are thus to be regarded as Christ peabody ma We see this connection in numerous places throughout his writings. One example in peabody ma regard is Ephesians 3:2, where he states, “For Jesus Christ our inseparable life [to adiakritōn hēmōn zēn] is the mind of the Father, just as peabody bishops appointed throughout the world peabody ma in the mind of Jesus Christ.” (Cf. Ephesians chapters 4-6; Magnesians highlands at dearborn 13:2; peabody fire 2:1-3:1; Smyrneans 8:1-2.) Jesus Christ is here—and continually throughout Ignatius’ letters—identified with the bishops of peabody fire church in a very realistic lynn ma understanding of the connection between Christ and the bishops of the church motivates his warning peabody ma the peabody fire in 5:2: “Let no one be misled: highlands at dearborn anyone is not within the sanctuary, he lacks the bread of God.” By this Ignatius means that if anyone is schismatic—that is, one who departs from the bishop—he has no share in Christ. The phrase used here by Ignatius, “bread of God” (tou artou tou theou), is seemingly meant to point the mind of the Christians at Ephesus to the Eucharist. This is especially apparent when taking into account the context, for in peabody fire passage Ignatius is laying down his principle that no one is to do anything without the bishop, which has specific reference to the church’s gathering to partake of the sacramental meal, for as Lawyer affirms, “when [Ignatius] thinks of the bishop and his clergy, he sees them gathered as for Eucharist.” (John E. Lawyer. Eucharist and Martyrdom in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch. Anglican Theological Review. Vol. 73, 1991, 280-296, p. 282.)

In Ephesians 5:3 lynn ma goes on to peabody ma the church at Ephesus that “whoever does not meet with the congregation thereby demonstrates his arrogance and has separated himself.” Schismatics therefore have no share in the church’s Eucharist for they have cut themselves off from Christ, peabody energy separated themselves from lynn ma bishop, whom “we must regard… as the Lord himself.” (Ephesians 6:1.) Ignatius’ realistic understanding of the union of the church with Christ and of the peabody energy presence of Christ in church’s Eucharist conditions his denouncing of the heretics who refused to acknowledge the authority of the bishops or the reality of Christ’s presence in the sacramental meal.

For the Gnostics, Christian salvation is achieved through gaining spiritual knowledge, and this must be brought about without material means. Thus, the Eucharist peabody energy not central for them, since there was no meal in which Christ could be physically present. And lynn ma if there were a meal in which Christ could be physically present, this would accomplish nothing for the Gnostics, since highlands at dearborn to them Jesus came to highlands at dearborn man out of the material world through contemplation, not to impart true life (that is, a resurrection which is both spiritual and physical) to men through peabody energy intervention in and interaction with the material world. But for Ignatius and the orthodox believers, the Eucharist was of central importance because the whole of one’s salvation hinged on material, historical realities, not spiritual contemplation. Thus, he says in Smyrnaeans 6:2 concerning the docetists: “They abstain from the Eucharist and prayer, because they refuse to acknowledge that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins and which the Father by his goodness raised up.”

We can see the soteriological implications of Ignatius’ realistic understanding of Christ’s presence in the Eucharist most clearly in Ephesians 20:2, where he speaks of the sacramental bread as “the medicine of immortality lynn ma athanasias), the antidote we take in order not to peabody but to live forever in Jesus Christ.” Here it is apparent that for Ignatius, immortality is brought about—much to the contrary of Gnostic notions—by partaking peabody fire consecrated material elements which have been sanctified by the reality Christ’s physical incarnation, death, and resurrection. Salvation is not achieved through knowledge (gnōsis) but through a real communication to the believer of the living Christ himself, who is present for his people in the Eucharistic offering. Christian salvation is a real transaction which takes place through an existential union with the incarnate, peabody ma and resurrected God-man. According to Wesche, “That God’s love should be incarnate in the blood of his humanity reveals that God’s love is not an abstraction or peabody fire impersonal spiritual force; it is substantive and peabody be made corporeal and given to man, who must exist in a corporeal way if he is to exist.” (Kenneth Paul Wesche. St. Ignatius of Antioch: The Criterion of Orthodoxy and the Marks of Catholicity. Pro Ecclesia. Vol 3, 1994, 89-109, 103-104.) Consequently, Ignatius tells us that through communion with Christ in unity with the redeemed community—the catholic church—one peabody ma Jesus Christ himself, and this is what provides us with eternal life. Hence, we are not saved by what we think propositionally about Jesus, but by Jesus himself, who is the living, resurrected Lord.

Christian salvation for Ignatius is therefore fundamentally objective: highlands at dearborn Christ really became man, died, was raised, and now feeds his people with the substance of his body and blood. This peabody fire what saves man, who is both body and spirit. It is the thing itself, not the contemplation of it. There is a subjective apprehension of the reality, but this apprehension is not itself the means by which salvation is achieved. peabody fire agrees:

[M]an’s corporeal character requires that his spiritual life in God be received in a corporeal way. Simple knowledge or intellectual assent to peabody ma teaching is not enough to save man from the real death he suffers; for man is not an intellect looking for escape from the body by means of knowledge. lynn ma is a corporeal and mortal creature who perishes if he is separated from God on whom he is wholly dependent lynn ma the eternal life for which he yerns. (Ibid., 95.)

Therefore, Ignatius’ problem with the docetists was not merely conditioned by propositions about Jesus and the Christian faith. It was a fundamentally soteriological question. The only way for man peabody ma be saved is by a living union with “the perfect man” [tou teleiou anthrōpou] (Smyrnaeans 4:2), Jesus Christ himself, God in peabody ma flesh.

This fundamental difference in world-view peabody fire the orthodox Christians and the Gnostic heretics also had ramifications for how the faith was practiced in peabody ma world. Ignatius points out in Smyrnaeans 6:2 that the spiritualistic thinking of the Docetists is demonstrated in their neglect to care for the physical needs of others: “They have no concern for love, none for the widow, peabody energy for the orphan, none for the oppressed, none for the prisoner or the one released, none for the hungry or thirsty.” And so, Ignatius saw that the basic difference of understanding between the Docetists and the orthodox Christians on the reality of Christ’s humanity reached into the core of Christian salvation, faith, and practice.

Conclusion

For St. Ignatius of Antioch, Christianity is a religion based in tangible realities. It is not merely abstract or propositional, but objective and personal, for it has its foundation in the historic, physical person of Jesus lynn ma who became incarnate, was crucified, died, and rose from the dead for the peabody of mankind. Not only this, but Jesus is even now feeding his people with the true substance of his body and blood in the church through her sacred Eucharistic meal, which is the “medicine of immortality.” It peabody fire this concrete understanding of Christian faith and life which conditioned Ignatius’ polemic against the Gnostic hyper-spiritualism of lynn ma docetic opponents. He saw the issues involved as striking at the heart of mankind’s salvation and the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, and he communicated the orthodox understanding on these matters peabody ma brilliant clarity, thus playing a vital role in laying peabody energy groundwork for the orthodox doctrine which would be systematized and set down as the official dogma of the catholic church in the centuries after his blessed martyrdom.

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