Eutyches - ܐܘܛܘܟܐ
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Eutyches was a controversial and polemical monastic teacher active in Constantinople in the early fifth century. He opposed dyophysite (two-nature) Christology, but the precise nature of his own one-nature Christology is uncertain. He was condemned in 448 at a synod, restored in 449 at the Second Council of Ephesus, and condemned again at the Council of Chalcedon where he was championed by the Syriac monk Barsauma. In later theological discussions, Eutyches' one-nature Christology was equally condemned by Chalcedonian theologians and the Coptic and Syriac Orthodox Churches.
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Birth
ca. 3781
Death
ca. 4541
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“His early life, of which hardly anything is known, was evidently as a monk, and then an archimandrite, in Constantinople where, by 448, he and his teaching evidently had an influential following.” 1
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Eutyches was a controversial and polemical monastic teacher active in Constantinople in the early fifth century. He opposed dyophysite (two-nature) Christology, but the precise nature of his own one-nature Christology is uncertain. He was condemned in 448 at a synod, restored in 449 at the Second Council of Ephesus, and condemned again at the Council of Chalcedon where he was championed by the Syriac monk Barsauma. In later theological discussions, Eutyches' one-nature Christology was equally condemned by Chalcedonian theologians and the Coptic and Syriac Orthodox Churches.
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- 1 S. P. Brock, "Eutyches." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 155-156, 155-156.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), pp: 265.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), pp: 211.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 255.
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James E. Walters et al., “Eutyches — ܐܘܛܘܟܐ .”, edited by David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 2 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/482.About this Entry
Entry Title: Eutyches — ܐܘܛܘܟܐ
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