Severus of Antioch
Pauline Allen, Robert Hayward
Psychology Press, 2004 -200 pages
In
the first book to be devoted exclusively to Severus, well-known author
in the field, Pauline Allen, focuses on a fascinating figure who is seen
simultaneously as both a saint and a heretic. Part of our popular Early
Church Fathers series, this volume translates a key selection of
Severus' writings which survived in many other languages. Shedding light
on his key opposition to the Council of Chalcedon and rehabilitates his
reputation as a key figure of late antiquity, is examines his his life
and times, thinking, homiletic abilities and his pastoral concerns.
Severus was patriarch of Antioch on the Orontes in Syria from 512-518.
Though he is venerated as an important saint in the Old Oriental
Christian tradition, he has mostly been regarded as a heretic elsewhere;
and as his works were condemned by imperial edict in 536, very little
has survived in the original Greek.
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