Eutychianorum furor! Heresiological Comparison and the Invention of Eutychians in Leo I’s Christological Polemic

This essay examines the use of heresiological rhetoric in the letters and tractates of Leo I (bishop of Rome, 440-461) written in defense of the Council of Chalcedon (451). In these texts, Leo claimed the Constantinopolitan monk Eutyches and his supporters, the Eutychians, were an existential threat...

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Main Author: Cohen, Samuel (Author)
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Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2022
In: Entangled Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 4
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Leo, I., Pope 400-461 / Polemics / Eutyches Heretic 370-454 / Council (451 : Chalkedon) / Heresy
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CG Christianity and Politics
FD Contextual theology
HC New Testament
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
KCC Councils
NAB Fundamental theology
NBA Dogmatics
Further subjects:B Leo I
B heresiology
B Papacy / Bishops of Rome
B Christological Controversy
B Rhetoric
B Late Antiquity
B Eutyches
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