title: Christ in Christian Tradition: From the Apostolic Age to Chalcedon (451)
author: Aloys Grillmeier
description: <b>Aloys Grillmeier, S.J.</b> was Professor of Dogmatics at St. Georgen Theological Seminary in Frankfurt am Main, Germany from 1950-78. He was an expert theologian at the Second Vatican Council from 1962-65 and was named a cardinal-deacon of the Catholic Church in 1994.
zlib_text: THEOLOGY 
  A Basic Synthesis for the College 
  The Christian Life 
  Edited by 
  Francis L. B. Cunningham, 
  S.T.Lr., S.T.D. 
  of the Order of Preachers 
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  The Priory Press . Dubuque, Iowa nnnnn� 
  
  Revisores Ordinis: Joannes J. McDonald, O.P., S.T.M., Fredericus E. Klueg, 
  O.P., S.T.Lr., S.T.D. Imprimi potest: Joannes E Marr, O.P., S.T.M., 
  Prior Provincialis. Nihil obstat: Fredericus E. Klueg, 
  O.P., S.T.Lr., S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur: 
  �Leo Binz, Archiepiscopus Dubuquensis 
  festum S. Rosae a Lima, O.P. 
  die 30a Augusti 1959 
  Third Printing 
  Library of Congress Card No. 59-15306 
  © Copyright, 1959, THE PRIORY PRESS, Dubuque, Iowa 
  
  Dedicated 
  to the memory of the late 
  POPE PIUS XII 
  champion 
  of an educated laity 
  
  A C KNOWLEDGM E N T S 
  To the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine we express our gratitude 
  for their permission to use their version of Sacred Scripture and the 
  translations of certain papal encyclicals. Unless otherwise noted, how­
  ever, all translations from ecclesiast