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Church Memorials and Characteristics; Being a Church History of the First Six Centuries
Church Memorials and Characteristics Being a Church History of the First Six Centuries Author:William Roberts General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: Rivingtons Subjects: Church history Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Christian Church / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be ... more »typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ' Eranistes,' or ' Polymorphus,' a polemic treatise on the Person of Christ, an account of ancient heresies, ten orations against the Gentiles, an apology for Christianity in twelve books, and some sermons and dialogues against the Arians, Macedonians, and Apollinarians.' Of Theodorus, Bishop of Mopsuestia, Theodoret was an admirer and friend. He was indebted to him for his first instruction, and wrote in his defence. Of that voluminous writer we have very scanty remains, though his commentaries extended over the whole of the sacred Scriptures, and his polemic productions were opposed to the whole array of Arians, Eunomians, Apollinarians, and the varied host of the heretics of the East. He was born and bred at Antioch, where he was a presbyter at the same time with Chrysostom, and had for his pupils John, afterwards the patriarch of that see, together with Theodoret and Nestorius. In the year 392 he was made Bishop of Mopsuestia in Cilicia, in which station he continued for thirty-six years to execute with great diligence his important duties. After his death, which happened in 428, he was accused of being in his creed inclined to the opinions of Nestorius, and was pronounced a heretic at the fifth General Council at Constantinople, A. D. 553. His ' Expositio Fidei,' with copious extracts from many of his other works, are found in the acts of the fifth General Council,2 in the works of Marius Mercator, and in the ' Catenae Patrum.' Havin...« less