Eutyches

Eutyches (* around 378 in Constantinople , † after 454) was a Byzantine presbyter and a representative of Monophysitism .

Eutyches was Archimandrite of the Convent of Job in Constantinople. In a stressed anti- Nestorianism he took up the formula of Apollinaris of Laodicea of the "one physique of the incarnate Logos ". Like him, he believed that after his incarnation , Jesus Christ had only one nature, namely the divine. Eutyches taught that the humanity of Christ was absorbed by the deity like a drop of honey in the sea. The Eutychian dispute (444 to 451) is named after him.

Eutyches was condemned and excommunicated as a false teacher in 448 by a synod in Constantinople chaired by Archbishop Flavianus of Constantinople , but rehabilitated at the Council of Ephesus in 449 , the so-called "robber synod", at the instigation of the Patriarch Dioskoros I of Alexandria . The Council of Chalcedon of 451, which rejected Monophysitism, condemned Eutyches again. He was exiled and died after 454. The term post quem is a letter from Pope Leo the Great to Empress Aelia Pulcheria that year, demanding that Eutyches be banished to an even more remote location.

literature

• Adolf Jülicher : Eutyches 5 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Sp. 1527-1529.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  EUTYCHES. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1573.
• Lionel R. Wickham: Eutyches / Eutychian Dispute . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie , Vol. 10, De Gruyter, Berlin 1982, pp. 558-565 (accessed via De Gruyter Online)