Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-208).

The background, modern and ancient -- The modern situation -- Karl Rahner -- The philosophers : Plato, Aristotle, Celsus, and Plotinus -- Aristotle -- The metaphysics -- Middle platonism : Celsus -- Plotinus -- Alexandrians, apologists, and Gregory the Wonderworker -- Apostolic fathers -- Apologists of the second century -- Clement of Alexandria -- Origen of Alexandria -- Origen on divine suffering -- Ad theopompum -- Tertullian and his heirs -- God's goodness -- God's justice -- Deus incarnatus -- De carne christi -- Novatian -- Arnobius -- Lactantius -- Conclusion -- Arians and Orthodox : the logos suffers but God does not -- The crucified God of the Arians -- Athanasius -- Gregory of Nyssa -- [Apatheia] -- The incarnation -- The Tura commentary : an obscure contribution -- The incarnation -- The Latins : Hilary and Augustine -- Augustine on divine immutability -- God's wrath -- God's repentance -- Divine jealousy -- God's love and mercy -- Divine mercy -- Augustine on the incarnation -- The communication of idioms -- Cyril and Nestorius -- Cyril of Alexandria -- The early Cyril -- Divinisation in the commentary on John -- Disputed fragments in book eight -- Fragments from book seven -- The logos feels emotion -- The Ephesus period -- The late Cyril -- Nestorius -- The book of Heracleides -- Conclusion -- Theodoret and the Eranistes -- Eranistes -- Theodorets commentaries -- Communication of idioms? -- Severus of Antioch and Philoxenus of Mabbug -- Philoxenus of Mabbug (440-523) -- The christological solution : Leontius of Jerusalem and Maximus the Confessor -- Leontius of Jerusalem -- Maximus Confessor -- [Pepich�or�esis].