The One Christ

David Vincent Meconi, SJ is associate professor of patristic theology at Saint Louis University.

"Meconi goes a long way toward helping us correct our common mis-conceptions about deification and toward broadening our understand-ing of the way the concept can function in tandem with other motifs in the soteriology of a great giant of the Christian faith."-Augustinian Studies"Meconi's original approach to Augustine's soteriology is an important corrective to the usual emphasis on escape from the massa damnata. His book should be on the shelves of every patristics scholar."-Heythrop Journal "Meconi has provided a useful survey of Augustine's use of the language of deification and treatment of the issues necessary to support this form of soteriology. The book collects, organizes, and explains what Augustine has said, rather than exploring the inner coherence of his position and comparing it to the teaching of his contemporaries, such as the Cappadocians or Cyril of Alexandria."-Journal of Early Christian Studies ". . . careful treatment of Augustine's texts in view of the whole . . . makes Meconi's a truly valuable study."-Modern Theology "The One Christ makes a worthy contribution to an area of scholarship that offers little space for innovation or originality, and Meconi's work deserves to be read by all Augustine scholars, as well as those more broadly interested in the theme of deification."-Reviews in Religion and Theology