Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Marquete University, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-293) and indexes.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Revising the Lens through which Hilary is Read -- 2 Hilary’s Use of Language and Rhetoric -- 3 The Context of, and Influences upon, Hilary’s Soteriology -- 4 Proof of Hilary’s Physicalism -- 5 Christological Ramifications: Sublimation of Christology into Soteriology -- 6 The Assumption of All Humanity as Definitive of Hilary’s Physicalist Soteriology -- 7 Eschatological Ramifications: Eternal Life in Christ -- 8 Ecclesiological Ramifications: The Church is the Body of Christ -- 9 Hilary’s Patercentric Theology: The Relationship between Physicalism and Trinitarian Theology -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Scripture Index.

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In Physicalist Soteriology in Hilary of Poitiers , Ellen Scully presents Hilary as a representative of the “mystical” or “physical” trajectory of patristic soteriology most often associated with the Greek fathers. Scully shows that Hilary’s physicalism is unique, both in its Latin non-Platonic provenance and its conceptual foundation, namely that the incarnation has salvific effects for all humanity because Christ’s body contains every human individual. Hilary’s soteriological conviction that all humans are present in Christ’s body has theological ramifications that expand beyond soteriology to include christology, eschatology, ecclesiology, and Trinitarian theology. In detailing these ramifications, Scully illumines the pervasive centrality of physicalism in Hilary’s theology while correcting standard soteriological presentations of physicalism as an exclusively Greek phenomenon.