Abstract

In this article are reviewed some peculiarities of St. Cyril of Alexandria’s Christological Terminology, that was used in his statement of the Christological dogma about union of the two natures in the single Person of Jesus Christ. It has been highlighted that the Archbishop of Alexandria had made use of the particular and original theological language to explain the mystery of Christ’s Incarnation. The author reveals the main Christological notion and the ways of usage of these terms by St. Cyril. The Analysis of the writings of the Archbishop of Alexandria proves that St. Cyril did not distinguish the terms φύσις, ὑπόστασις, πρόσωπον and he used them, as if they were obvious synonyms. Therefore it is extremely difficult to interpret the theological language the Archbishop of Alexandria. In the author’s opinion is that St. Cyril sought to ascertain the truth of the unity of the divine and human natures of Christ in one individual existence and could not find a unifying expression understandable by everyone. However, St. Cyril of Alexandria made an effort to formulate the Christian dogma of the union of the two natures in the single Person of Jesus Christ. The author of this article concludes that even if the Archbishop of Alexandria in his Christological word usage mixed and did not distinguish some terms and was using them as synonyms, it can be explained by not steady-state theological and philosophical terminology in the 5th century. St. Cyril expressed deep theological idea in spite of still ambiguous term formulations.