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On the eve of the Council of Constantinople in 553, John Philoponus, the Alexandrian philosopher and prolific commentator on Aristotle, entered the controversy over the Chalcedonian definition of faith. By clarifying the terms of the debate, he intended to lay the groundwork for a defence of miaphysitism as the appropriate way of understanding the Incarnation. This monograph elucidates the argument of Philoponus' Arbiter by locating it within the Christological discussions of the fifth and sixth

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Author
Uwe Michael Lang, John Philoponus
Publisher
Peeters Publishers
Published
2001
Language
EN
ISBN
9789042910249
Category
language
Subjects
Christian, History, Nature
Updated
2026-03-25

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