The Divine Plan of Salvation in Cyril

Abstract Traces Cyril’s narrative of salvation from the baptism of Jesus through his death and resurrection to his ascension and enthronement, in order to show that, in Cyril’s view, the re-creation, sanctification, and divinization of human nature is completed first in Christ himself. Particular attention in given to the baptism of Jesus, which for Cyril reveals the Incarnate Word as both agent and recipient of salvation and establishes the central place of the gift of the Spirit in Cyril’s narrative of divine life. The conclusion reached is that, in Cyril’s eyes, Christ’s humanity is at one and the same time a representative, corporate humanity and an individual, concrete humanity like our own.