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390s births
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5th-century Byzantine historians
5th-century Syrian bishops
Assyrian Church of the East
Nestorianism
Participant in the Council of Chalcedon
Participant in the Council of Ephesus
People from Cyrrhus

Abraham Kidunaia

Abraham Kidunaia (died c. 366) was a Syriac Christian hermit and priest.

Acepsimas of Hnaita

Acepsimas of Hnaita (died October 10, 376) was a bishop, martyr and saint.

As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.

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Anathema

The word anathema has two main meanings.

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Ancient Christian Writers

The Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation (abbreviated as ACW) is a book series with English translations of works by early Christian writers.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Ancient Greek philosophy

Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC.

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Antioch

Antioch on the Orontes (Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou)Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Δάφνῃ "Antioch on Daphne"; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ Μεγάλη "Antioch the Great"; Antiochia ad Orontem; Անտիոք Antiokʽ; ܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ Anṭiokya; אנטיוכיה, Anṭiyokhya; أنطاكية, Anṭākiya; انطاکیه; Antakya.

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Apamea, Syria

Apamea (Ἀπάμεια, Apameia; آفاميا, Afamia), on the right bank of the Orontes River, was an ancient Greek and Roman city.

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Aphrahat (hermit)

Aphrahat, Aphraat, Aphraates or Afrates (Aφραάτηςi;; and) was a fourth-century Persian-born hermit who was active in Mesopotamia and Syria during the reign of Emperor Valens and perhaps Theodosius.

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Apollinarism

Apollinarism or Apollinarianism is a Christological heresy proposed by Apollinaris of Laodicea (died 390) that argues that Jesus had a human body and sensitive human soul, but a divine mind and not a human rational mind, the Divine Logos taking the place of the latter.

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Apologetics

Apologetics (from Greek label) is the religious discipline of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse.

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Apostles in the New Testament

In Christian theology and ecclesiology, the apostles, particularly the Twelve Apostles (also known as the Twelve Disciples or simply the Twelve), were the primary disciples of Jesus according to the New Testament.

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Aramaic

Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.

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Arianism

Arianism (Ἀρειανισμός) is a Christological doctrine considered heretical by all modern mainstream branches of Christianity.

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Aristophanes

Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy.

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Arius

Arius (Ἄρειος, Áreios; 250 or 256 – 336) was a Cyrenaic presbyter, ascetic, and priest.

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Armenia

Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.

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Athanasius of Alexandria

Athanasius I of Alexandria (– 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor, or, among Coptic Christians, Athanasius the Apostolic, was a Christian theologian and the 20th patriarch of Alexandria (as Athanasius I). Theodoret and Athanasius of Alexandria are church Fathers.

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Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. Theodoret and Augustine of Hippo are Christian anti-Gnosticism and church Fathers.

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Baradates

Baradates (died circa 460) was a hermit who lived in the Diocese of Cyrrhus in Syria, and whose bishop, Theodoret, called him "the admirable Baradates." Baradates lived in a tiny hut, too small for him to stand upright, and he wore a leather garment that exposed only his mouth and nose.

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Bishop

A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.

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Book of Daniel

The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th century BC setting.

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Book of Ezekiel

The Book of Ezekiel is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and one of the major prophetic books in the Christian Bible, where it follows Isaiah and Jeremiah.

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Book of Isaiah

The Book of Isaiah (ספר ישעיהו) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament.

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Book of Jeremiah

The Book of Jeremiah (ספר יִרְמְיָהוּ) is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the second of the Prophets in the Christian Old Testament.

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Books of Chronicles

The Book of Chronicles (דִּבְרֵי־הַיָּמִים, "words of the days") is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chronicles) in the Christian Old Testament.

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Books of Kings

The Book of Kings (Sēfer Məlāḵīm) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Kings) in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.

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Books of Samuel

The Book of Samuel (Sefer Shmuel) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Samuel) in the Old Testament.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Carthage

Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.

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A catena (from Latin catena, a chain) is a form of biblical commentary, verse by verse, made up entirely of excerpts from earlier Biblical commentators, each introduced with the name of the author, and with such minor adjustments of words to allow the whole to form a continuous commentary.

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Chalcedon

Chalcedon (Χαλκηδών||; sometimes transliterated as Khalqedon) was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor.

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Chalcedonian Christianity

Chalcedonian Christianity is a term referring to the branches of Christianity that accept and uphold theological resolutions of the Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council, held in 451.

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Chaldean Catholic Church

The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church (sui iuris) in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, and is headed by the Chaldean Patriarchate.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christology

In Christianity, Christology is a branch of theology that concerns Jesus.

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Church Fathers

The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers, or Fathers of the Church were ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers who established the intellectual and doctrinal foundations of Christianity.

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Church of the East

The Church of the East (''ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā''.) or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church or the Nestorian Church, is one of three major branches of Nicene Eastern Christianity that arose from the Christological controversies of the 5th and 6th centuries, alongside the Miaphisite churches (which came to be known as the Oriental Orthodox Churches) and the Chalcedonian Church (whose Eastern branch would later become the Eastern Orthodox Church). Theodoret and church of the East are Nestorianism.

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Coele Syria (Roman province)

Coele Syria (Κοίλη Συρία, Koílē Syría) was a Roman province which Septimius Severus created with Syria Phoenice in 198 by dividing the province of Syria.

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Council of Chalcedon

The Council of Chalcedon (Concilium Chalcedonense) was the fourth ecumenical council of the Christian Church.

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Creed

A creed, also known as a confession of faith, a symbol, or a statement of faith, is a statement of the shared beliefs of a community (often a religious community) in a form which is structured by subjects which summarize its core tenets.

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Cyril of Alexandria

Cyril of Alexandria (Κύριλλος Ἀλεξανδρείας; Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ Ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲩ ⲁ̅or ⲡⲓ̀ⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲕⲓⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲥ; 376–444) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. Theodoret and Cyril of Alexandria are church Fathers and Participant in the Council of Ephesus.

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Cyrrhus

Cyrrhus (Kyrrhos) is a city in ancient Syria founded by Seleucus Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals.

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Demosthenes

Demosthenes (translit;; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens.

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Diocese

In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.

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Diodorus of Tarsus

Diodore of Tarsus (Greek Διόδωρος ὁ Ταρσεύς; died c. 390) was a Christian bishop, a monastic reformer, and a theologian.

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Domnina of Syria

Saint Domnina of Syria (Greek: Δομνίνα Συρίας) also known as Domnina the Younger, was a 5th-century ascetic.

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Domnus II of Antioch

Domnus II was the Patriarch of Antioch between 442 and 449 and a friend of the influential Bishop of Cyrrhus, Saint Theodoret.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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Edessa

Edessa (Édessa) was an ancient city (polis) in Upper Mesopotamia, in what is now Urfa or Şanlıurfa, Turkey.

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Eparchy

Eparchy (ἐπαρχία eparchía "overlordship") is an ecclesiastical unit in Eastern Christianity that is equivalent to a diocese in Western Christianity.

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Episcopal see

An episcopal see is, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

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Epistle to the Galatians

The Epistle to the Galatians is the ninth book of the New Testament.

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Epistle to the Hebrews

The Epistle to the Hebrews (to the Hebrews) is one of the books of the New Testament.

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Eunomius of Cyzicus

Eunomius (Εὐνόμιος Κυζίκου) (died c. 393 AD), one of the leaders of the extreme or "anomoean" Arians, who are sometimes accordingly called Eunomians, was born at Dacora in Cappadocia or at Corniaspa in Pontus.

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Euphrates

The Euphrates (see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.

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Euripides

Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens.

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Eusebius

Eusebius of Caesarea (Εὐσέβιος τῆς Καισαρείας; 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus (from the Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου), was a Greek Syro-Palestinian historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist. Theodoret and Eusebius are Christian anti-Gnosticism and church Fathers.

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Eutyches

Eutyches (Εὐτυχής; c. 380c. 456) or Eutyches of Constantinople. Theodoret and Eutyches are 450s deaths.

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Excommunication

Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular those of being in communion with other members of the congregation, and of receiving the sacraments.

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Exegesis

Exegesis (from the Greek ἐξήγησις, from ἐξηγεῖσθαι, "to lead out") is a critical explanation or interpretation of a text.

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Galatians (people)

The Galatians (Galátai; Galatae, Galati, Gallograeci; lit) were a Celtic people dwelling in Galatia, a region of central Anatolia in modern-day Turkey surrounding Ankara during the Hellenistic period.

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God

In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.

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Gospel

Gospel (εὐαγγέλιον; evangelium) originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was reported.

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Gregory of Nazianzus

Gregory of Nazianzus (Grēgorios ho Nazianzēnos; Liturgy of the Hours Volume I, Proper of Saints, 2 January. – 25 January 390), also known as Gregory the Theologian or Gregory Nazianzen, was a 4th-century archbishop of Constantinople and theologian. Theodoret and Gregory of Nazianzus are church Fathers.

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Hebrew language

Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.

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Hellenization

Hellenization (also spelled Hellenisation) or Hellenism is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks.

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Henri Valois

Henri Valois (September 10, 1603, in Paris – May 7, 1676, in Paris) or in classical circles, Henricus Valesius, was a philologist and a student of classical and ecclesiastical historians.

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Heresiology

In theology or the history of religion, heresiology is the study of heresy, and heresiographies are writings about the topic.

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Hermit

A hermit, also known as an eremite (adjectival form: hermitic or eremitic) or solitary, is a person who lives in seclusion.

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Hieromonk

A hieromonk (Ieromonachos; tr; Slavonic: Иеромонахъ, Ieromonah, Albanian: Hieromurg), also called a priestmonk, is a monk who is also a priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholicism.

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Holy Spirit

In Judaism, the Holy Spirit, otherwise known as the Holy Ghost, is the divine force, quality and influence of God over the universe or his creatures.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)

Hypostasis (plural: hypostases), from the Greek italic (hypóstasis), is the underlying, fundamental state or substance that supports all of reality.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Jacob of Nisibis

Saint Jacob of Nisibis (ܝܥܩܘܒ ܢܨܝܒܢܝܐ,; Greek: Ἅγιος Ἰάκωβος Ἐπίσκοπος Μυγδονίας; Armenian: Յակոբ Մծբնայ), also known as Saint Jacob of Mygdonia, Saint Jacob the Great, and Saint James of Nisibis, was a hermit, a grazer and the Bishop of Nisibis until his death.

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Jean Garnier

Jean Garnier (11 November 1612 – 26 November 1681) was a French Jesuit church historian, patristic scholar, and moral theologian.

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Jerome

Jerome (Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was an early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome. Theodoret and Jerome are church Fathers.

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John I of Antioch

John I of Antioch was Patriarch of Antioch (429–441). Theodoret and John I of Antioch are ancient Christians involved in controversies, Nestorianism and Participant in the Council of Ephesus.

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John of Damascus

John of Damascus (Yūḥana ad-Dimashqī; Ioánnēs ho Damaskēnós,; Ioannes Damascenus; born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, يوحنا إبن منصور إبن سرجون) or John Damascene was an Arab Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist. Theodoret and John of Damascus are Christian anti-Gnosticism and church Fathers.

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Julian Sabas

Saint Julian Sabas (or Julian the Ascetic; died 377 AD) was a hermit who spent most of his life in deserted parts of Syria, but left his cell for a short period to denounce Arianism.

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Lector

Lector is Latin for one who reads, whether aloud or not.

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Logos

Logos (lit) is a term used in Western philosophy, psychology and rhetoric, as well as religion (notably Christianity); among its connotations is that of a rational form of discourse that relies on inductive and deductive reasoning.

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Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont

Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont (30 November 163710 January 1698) was a French ecclesiastical historian.

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Love of God

Love of God can mean either love for God or love by God.

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Macedonius of Syria

Macedonius the Hermit, sometimes known as Macedonius Kritophagus, lived at the turn of the fourth to fifth century in Byzantine Syria.

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Magi

Magi, or magus, is the term for priests in Zoroastrianism and earlier Iranian religions.

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Mar (title)

Mar (ܡܪܝ, written with a silent final yodh), also Mor in Western Syriac, is an Aramaic word meaning "lord".

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Marcionism

Marcionism was an early Christian dualistic belief system that originated with the teachings of Marcion of Sinope in Rome around 144 AD.

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Marius Mercator

Marius Mercator (born probably in Northern Africa about 390; died shortly after 451) was a Latin Christian ecclesiastical writer best known for his advocacy of Augustinian theology during the Pelagian controversy. Theodoret and Marius Mercator are 390s births and 450s deaths.

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Maron

Maron, also called Maroun or Maro (ܡܪܘܢ,; مَارُون; Maron; Μάρων), was a 4th-century Syrian Syriac Christian hermit monk in the Taurus Mountains whose followers, after his death, founded a religious Christian movement that became known as the Maronite Church, in full communion with the Holy See and the Catholic Church. Theodoret and Maron are people from Cyrrhus.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.

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Menologium

A menologium (pl. menologia), also known by other names, is any collection of information arranged according to the days of a month, usually a set of such collections for all the months of the year.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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Monastery of Saint John the Theologian

The Monastery of Saint John the Theologian (also called Monastery of Saint John the Divine) is a Greek Orthodox monastery founded in 1088 in Chora on the island of Patmos.

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Monophysitism

Monophysitism or monophysism (from Greek μόνος, "solitary" and φύσις, "nature") is a Christology that states that in the person of the incarnated Word (that is, in Jesus Christ) there was only one nature—the divine.

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Nestorius

Nestorius (Νεστόριος; –) was an early Christian prelate who served as Archbishop of Constantinople from 10 April 428 to August 431. Theodoret and Nestorius are ancient Christians involved in controversies, Nestorianism and Participant in the Council of Ephesus.

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New Testament

The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers

A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, usually known as the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (NPNF), is a set of books containing translations of early Christian writings into English.

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Nicene Creed

The Nicene Creed (Sýmvolon tis Nikéas), also called the Creed of Constantinople, is the defining statement of belief of mainstream Christianity and in those Christian denominations that adhere to it.

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Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos

Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos (Νικηφόρος Κάλλιστος Ξανθόπουλος; Latinized as Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus) was a Greek ecclesiastical historian and litterateur of the late Byzantine Empire.

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Octateuch

The Octateuch (from lit) is a traditional name for the first eight books of the Bible, comprising the Pentateuch, plus the Book of Joshua, the Book of Judges and the Book of Ruth.

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Old Testament

The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.

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Origen

Origen of Alexandria (185 – 253), also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. Theodoret and Origen are ancient Christians involved in controversies, Christian anti-Gnosticism and church Fathers.

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Orthodoxy

Orthodoxy (from Greek) is adherence to correct or accepted creeds, especially in religion.

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Osroene

Osroene or Osrhoene (Ὀσροηνή) was an ancient region and state in Upper Mesopotamia.

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Palladius of Antioch

Palladius of Antioch (died 390), also known as Saint Palladius the Desert Dweller and Palladius the Hermit, was an Early Christian monk in the Roman Empire.

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Patmos

Patmos (Πάτμος) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea.

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Pauline epistles

The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute.

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Philostorgius

Philostorgius (Φιλοστόργιος; 368 – c. 439 AD) was an Anomoean Church historian of the 4th and 5th centuries. Theodoret and Philostorgius are 5th-century Byzantine historians.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Pneumatomachi

The Pneumatomachi (Πνευματομάχοι Pneumatomákhoi), also known as Macedonians or Semi-Arians in Constantinople and the Tropici in Alexandria, were an anti-Nicene Creed sect which flourished in the regions adjacent to the Hellespont during the latter half of the fourth, and the beginning of the fifth centuries.

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Polemic

Polemic is contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position by forthright claims and to undermine the opposing position.

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Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria

Dioscorus I, also known as Dioscorus the Great, was the pope of Alexandria and patriarch of the See of St. Mark who was deposed by the Council of Chalcedon in 451. Theodoret and pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria are Participant in the Council of Chalcedon.

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Pope Leo I

Pope Leo I (400 – 10 November 461), also known as Leo the Great, was Bishop of Rome from 29 September 440 until his death. Theodoret and Pope Leo I are ancient Christians involved in controversies and church Fathers.

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Psalms

The Book of Psalms (תְּהִלִּים|Tehillīm|praises; Psalmós; Liber Psalmorum; Zabūr), also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called ("Writings"), and a book of the Old Testament.

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Relic

In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of persuasion.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Roman Syria

Roman Syria was an early Roman province annexed to the Roman Republic in 64 BC by Pompey in the Third Mithridatic War following the defeat of King of Armenia Tigranes the Great, who had become the protector of the Hellenistic kingdom of Syria.

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Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskovskiy patriarkhat), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.

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Sabinus of Heraclea

Sabinus of Heraclea was bishop of Heraclea in Thrace, and a leader of the party and sect of Macedonius. Theodoret and Sabinus of Heraclea are 5th-century Byzantine historians and church Fathers.

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School of Antioch

The Catechetical School of Antioch was one of the two major Christian centers of the study of biblical exegesis and theology during Late Antiquity; the other was the School of Alexandria.

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Second Council of Constantinople

The Second Council of Constantinople is the fifth of the first seven ecumenical councils recognized by both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church.

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Second Council of Ephesus

The Second Council of Ephesus was a Christological church synod in 449 convened by Emperor Theodosius II under the presidency of Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria.

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Septuagint

The Septuagint, sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and often abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew.

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Seraphim Rose

Seraphim Rose (born Eugene Dennis Rose; August 13, 1934 – September 2, 1982), also known as Seraphim of Platina, was an American hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia who co-founded the Saint Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, California.

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Simeon Stylites

Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Styliteܫܡܥܘܢ ܕܐܣܛܘܢܐ, Koine Greek Συμεὼν ὁ Στυλίτης, سمعان العمودي (Greek: Συμεών ό Στυλίτης;; 2 September 459) was a Syrian Christian ascetic, who achieved notability by living 37 years on a small platform on top of a pillar near Aleppo (in modern Syria).

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Socrates of Constantinople

Socrates of Constantinople (380 – after 439), also known as Socrates Scholasticus (Σωκράτης ὁ Σχολαστικός), was a 5th-century Greek Christian church historian, a contemporary of Sozomen and Theodoret. Theodoret and Socrates of Constantinople are 5th-century Byzantine historians and church Fathers.

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Solomon

Solomon, also called Jedidiah, was a monarch of ancient Israel and the son and successor of King David, according to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament.

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Song of Songs

The Song of Songs (שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים|translit.

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Sophocles

Sophocles (497/496 – winter 406/405 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41.

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Sources Chrétiennes

Sources Chrétiennes (French "Christian sources") is a bilingual collection of patristic texts founded in Lyon in 1942 by the Jesuits Jean Daniélou, Claude Mondésert, and Henri de Lubac.

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Sozomen

Salamanes Hermias Sozomenos (Σαλαμάνης Ἑρμείας Σωζομενός; Sozomenus; c. 400 – c. 450 AD), also known as Sozomen, was a Roman lawyer and historian of the Christian Church. Theodoret and Sozomen are 5th-century Byzantine historians and Christian anti-Gnosticism.

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Sporacius

Flavius Sporacius (fl. 5th century) was a statesman of the Eastern Roman Empire.

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Syria Prima

Syria I or Syria Prima ("First Syria", in Πρώτη Συρία, Prṓtē Suríā) was a Byzantine province, formed c. 415 out of Syria Coele.

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Syriac language

The Syriac language (Leššānā Suryāyā), also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan (Urhāyā), the Mesopotamian language (Nahrāyā) and Aramaic (Aramāyā), is an Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. Classical Syriac is the academic term used to refer to the dialect's literary usage and standardization, distinguishing it from other Aramaic dialects also known as 'Syriac' or 'Syrian'.

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Tatian

Tatian of Adiabene, or Tatian the Syrian or Tatian the Assyrian, (Tatianus; Τατιανός; ܛܛܝܢܘܣ; c. 120 – c. 180 AD) was an Assyrian Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century. Theodoret and Tatian are bible commentators.

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Thalassius and Limneus

Saints Thalassius and Limneus (5th century) were Syrian hermits.

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Thalelæus

Saint Thalelæus (or Thalilaeus Epiklautos, Θαλλελαίου; died) was a 5th-century Syrian hermit known for continuous weeping.

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The Catholic University of America Press

The Catholic University of America Press, also known as CUA Press, is the publishing division of The Catholic University of America.

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Theodore of Mopsuestia

Theodore of Mopsuestia (Greek: Θεοδώρος, c. 350 – 428) was a Christian theologian, and Bishop of Mopsuestia (as Theodore II) from 392 to 428 AD. Theodoret and Theodore of Mopsuestia are 5th-century Syrian bishops.

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Theodoret

Theodoret of Cyrus or Cyrrhus (Θεοδώρητος Κύρρου; AD 393 – 458/466) was an influential theologian of the School of Antioch, biblical commentator, and Christian bishop of Cyrrhus (423–457). Theodoret and Theodoret are 390s births, 450s deaths, 5th-century Byzantine historians, 5th-century Syrian bishops, ancient Christians involved in controversies, Assyrian Church of the East, bible commentators, Christian anti-Gnosticism, church Fathers, Nestorianism, Participant in the Council of Chalcedon, Participant in the Council of Ephesus and people from Cyrrhus.

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Theodosius II

Theodosius II (Θεοδόσιος; 10 April 401 – 28 July 450) was Roman emperor from 402 to 450.

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Three-Chapter Controversy

The Three-Chapter Controversy, a phase in the Chalcedonian controversy, was an attempt to reconcile the non-Chalcedonians of Syria and Egypt with Chalcedonian Christianity, following the failure of the Henotikon.

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Thucydides

Thucydides (Θουκυδίδης||; BC) was an Athenian historian and general.

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Twelve Minor Prophets

The Minor Prophets or Twelve Prophets (שנים עשר, Shneim Asar; תרי עשר, Trei Asar, "Twelve") (δωδεκαπρόφητον., "the Twelve Prophets"), occasionally Book of the Twelve, is a collection of prophetic books, written between about the 8th and 4th centuries BCE, which are in both the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament.

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Tyrannius Rufinus

Tyrannius Rufinus, also called Rufinus of Aquileia (Rufinus Aquileiensis; 344/345–411), was an early Christian monk, philosopher, historian, and theologian who worked to translate Greek patristic material, especially the work of Origen, into Latin. Theodoret and Tyrannius Rufinus are church Fathers.

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Vandals

The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland.

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Zeno the Hermit

Saint Zeno the Hermit was a disciple of St.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoret

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