RT Article
T1 Theodor von Pharan revisited: Häretiker und Häresiarch der μία ἐνέργεια Jesu Christi?
JF Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche
VO 117
IS 4
SP 409
OP 471
A1 Ohme, Heinz 1950-
LA German
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1744701555
AB The analysis offered here of the extant passages from the writings of Bishop Theodore of Pharan, who in both 649 and 681 was anathematized as a Monophysite and heresiarch because of his acknowledgement of a single operation (μία ἐνέργεια) in Christ, does not confirm this accusation. What it instead reveals is that, as a Chalcedonian theologian and through his attention to Christ's work as Saviour, Theodore adopted a perspective that complemented an ontological analysis of the distinction between human and divine natures. This enabled him to recognize the whole of Jesus's activity as a single work of God, a dual perspective he shared before 645 with his close contemporary Anastasios of Antioch and even Maximos Homologetes. The question arises why this idea's potential to create a common understanding between Chalcedon's followers in the monenergism /Monothelitism dispute was not used. The concluding section presents the reasons that led to Theodore's condemnation.
K1 Anastasius von Antiochien
K1 Christologie nach Chalcedon
K1 Lateransynode von 649
K1 Maximus Confessor
K1 Monenergismus-Monotheletismus
K1 Theodor von Pharan
DO 10.1628/zthk-2020-0020