What were the historical and cultural processes by which Cyril of Alexandria was elevated to canonical status while his opponent; Nestorius; bishop of Constantinople; was made into a heretic? In contrast to previous scholarship; Susan Wessel concludes that Cyril's success in being elevated to orthodox status was not simply a political accomplishment based on political alliances he had fashioned as opportunity arose. Nor was it a dogmatic victory; based on the clarity and orthodoxy of Cyril's doctrinal claims. Instead; it was his strategy in identifying himself with the orthodoxy of the former bishop of Alexandria; Athanasius; in his victory over Arianism; in borrowing Athanasius' interpretive methods; and in skilfully using the tropes and figures of the second sophistic that made Cyril a saint in the Greek and Coptic Orthodox Churches.
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