Theodoret

Theodoret ( Middle Greek Θεοδώρητος ο Κύρου , * 393 in Antioch , Syria ; † around 460 in Kyrrhos ) was Bishop of Kyrrhos and an important theologian and church historian . He is venerated as a blessed in the Eastern Churches.

Theodoret entered the Nikertai monastery near Apamea around 415 and officiated as bishop in Kyrrhos from 423. He defended the teachings of Nestorius against Cyril of Alexandria and was condemned for it in 449 at the Council of Ephesus (the so-called "synod of robbers"), but in 451 he was rehabilitated. Theodoret left a large number of works, including in particular a Greek continuation of the church history of Eusebius of Caesarea in five books, which dealt with the time up to the beginning of the Nestorian dispute.

The work is an important source because of the documentary material on the Arian controversy that has been handed down. The writings of Theodoret against Cyril of Alexandria were condemned in the context of the three chapter dispute at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553. Due to the Latin translation of his church history suggested by Cassiodorus in the 6th century, the work was received nonetheless and had a considerable effect in the Western Church in the Middle Ages .

The Church History of Theodoret was published in 1911 by Léon Parmentier as part of the Church Fathers Commission of the Berlin Academy of Sciences . The second edition (1954) was provided by Felix Scheidweiler , the third edition (1998) by Günther Christian Hansen . A new edition of Theodoret's Church History is in preparation as part of the Fontes Christiani series (Ulrich Hamm and Mischa Meier are the editors ).

Works

Theodoriti Cyrensis episcopi De curatione Graecarum affectionum libri duodecim / Zenobio Acciaolo interprete. - Parisiis: Stephanus, 1519. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
Theodoret, De Graecarum affectionum curatione - Healing of Greek Diseases. Edited by Clemens Scholten. Brill, Leiden 2015 (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, 126), ISBN 978-90-04-27932-2 .

literature

Hartmut Leppin : From Constantine the Great to Theodosius II. The Christian Empire with the church historians Socrates, Sozomenus and Theodoret. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-25198-X .
Hartmut Leppin: The Church Historians. Socrates, Sozomenus, and Theodoretus. In: Gabriele Marasco (Ed.): Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity. Fourth to sixth century AD Brill, Leiden 2003, pp. 219-254, ISBN 90-04-11275-8 .
Theresa Urbainczyk: Theodoret of Cyrrhus: the bishop and the holy man. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2002.
Ferdinand R. Prostmeier: Christian Paideia. Theodoret's perspective of Kyrrhus. In: Roman Quarterly Edition, Vol. 100 (2005), pp. 1–29.
Klaus-Gunther Wesseling : Theodoret of Cyrus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 11, Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6 , Sp. 936-957. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

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SURNAME	Theodoret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Cyrrhos and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH	393
PLACE OF BIRTH	Antioch , Syria
DATE OF DEATH	at 460
Place of death	Kyrrhus