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On the Relation between the Late Antique and Byzantine Christological Discourses: Observations about Theodore the Stoudite’s Third Antirrheticus

    Dirk Krausmüller

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 68, pp. 239-250, 2019/09/17

doi: 10.1553/joeb68s239

doi: 10.1553/joeb68s239

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doi:10.1553/joeb68s239



doi:10.1553/joeb68s239

Abstract

In his Third Antirrheticus Theodore the Stoudite made use of older texts. An important source of inspiration was an excerpt from John Philoponus’ treatise Arbiter that was included in the Doctrina Patrum, together with glosses by an unknown Chalcedonian theologian. In one argument Theodore follows the Chalcedonian glossator in rejecting Philoponus’ view that hypostatic idioms only distinguish from each other members of the same species. Yet in another argument he reproduces a definition of hypostasis that had been formulated by Philoponus in order to explain what he means by a certain human being. As a result he can no longer uphold the difference between hypostasis on the one hand and certain human being or individual on the other, which was the mainstay of his icon theology.