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Severus of Antioch

Pauline Allen author CTR Hayward author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:11th Nov '04

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In the first book to be devoted exclusively to Severus, well-known author in the field, Pauline Allen, focuses on a fascinating figure who is seen simultaneously as both a saint and a heretic.

Part of our popular Early Church Fathers series, this volume translates a key selection of Severus' writings which survived in many other languages. Shedding light on his key opposition to the Council of Chalcedon and rehabilitates his reputation as a key figure of late antiquity, is examines his his life and times, thinking, homiletic abilities and his pastoral concerns.

Severus was patriarch of Antioch on the Orontes in Syria from 512-518. Though he is venerated as an important saint in the Old Oriental Christian tradition, he has mostly been regarded as a heretic elsewhere; and as his works were condemned by imperial edict in 536, very little has survived in the original Greek.

'This is a well organized and scholarly study which deserves ... thanks. ' - Theology

ISBN: 9780415234023

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 272g

208 pages