Nowadays, we hear so much about the need for theology to be contextual, to relate to the questions that arise in a particular context. We have to understand that, in fact, these early christological disputes were in themselves contextual responses to the culture of the day, the Greek/Hellenistic culture, which was philosophically and conceptually oriented, in contrast to the Hebrew/Judaic culture, which was less philosophical and more holistic in its approach to divine things.
