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Philostorgius (Greek: F???st??????; 368 - ca. 439) was a so-called Anomoean Church historian of the 4th and 5th centuries. (Anomoeanism questioned the Trinitarian account of the relationship between God the Father
God the Father

In many religions, the supreme deity is given the title and attributions of Father. In many forms of polytheism, the highest god has been conceived as a "father of gods and of men"....
 and Christ
Christ

Christ is the English language term for the Greek meaning "the anointing", which is a title given to the Reigning Messiah in the given age of the Zodiac....
 and was considered a heresy
Heresy

Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief, especially a religion, that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief....
 by trinitarian Christians.) Very little information about his life is available; he was born in Borissus, Cappadocia
Cappadocia

Cappadocia, Wikipedia:IPA for English /k?p?'do???/ , was an extensive inland district of Asia Minor . The name continued to be used in western sources and in the Christianity tradition throughout history and is still widely used as an international Tourism in Turkey concept to define a region of exceptional natural wonders characterized by...
 to Eulampia and Carterius, and later lived in Constantinople
Constantinople

Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
.

He wrote a history of the Arian controversy
Arian controversy

The Arian controversy describes several controversies related to Arianism which divided the Christian church from before the First Council of Nicaea in 325 to after the First Council of Constantinople in 381....
 titled History of the Church, of which only an epitome
Epitome

An epitome is a summary or miniature form; an instance that represents a larger reality, also used as a synonym for embodiment.Many documents from the Ancient Greek and Ancient Rome worlds survive now only "in epitome," referring to the practice of some later authors who wrote distilled versions of larger works now lost....
 by Photius survives, as well as a treatise against Porphyry
Porphyry

Porphyry may refer to:*Porphyry , a plutonic rock with large crystals in a fine-grained matrix*Porphyry , a Neoplatonic philosopher*Porphyrio, also known as Pomponius Porphyrio, a Latin grammarian, fl....
, which is lost.








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Philostorgius (Greek: F???st??????; 368 - ca. 439) was a so-called Anomoean Church historian of the 4th and 5th centuries. (Anomoeanism questioned the Trinitarian account of the relationship between God the Father
God the Father

In many religions, the supreme deity is given the title and attributions of Father. In many forms of polytheism, the highest god has been conceived as a "father of gods and of men"....
 and Christ
Christ

Christ is the English language term for the Greek meaning "the anointing", which is a title given to the Reigning Messiah in the given age of the Zodiac....
 and was considered a heresy
Heresy

Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief, especially a religion, that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief....
 by trinitarian Christians.) Very little information about his life is available; he was born in Borissus, Cappadocia
Cappadocia

Cappadocia, Wikipedia:IPA for English /k?p?'do???/ , was an extensive inland district of Asia Minor . The name continued to be used in western sources and in the Christianity tradition throughout history and is still widely used as an international Tourism in Turkey concept to define a region of exceptional natural wonders characterized by...
 to Eulampia and Carterius, and later lived in Constantinople
Constantinople

Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
.

He wrote a history of the Arian controversy
Arian controversy

The Arian controversy describes several controversies related to Arianism which divided the Christian church from before the First Council of Nicaea in 325 to after the First Council of Constantinople in 381....
 titled History of the Church, of which only an epitome
Epitome

An epitome is a summary or miniature form; an instance that represents a larger reality, also used as a synonym for embodiment.Many documents from the Ancient Greek and Ancient Rome worlds survive now only "in epitome," referring to the practice of some later authors who wrote distilled versions of larger works now lost....
 by Photius survives, as well as a treatise against Porphyry
Porphyry

Porphyry may refer to:*Porphyry , a plutonic rock with large crystals in a fine-grained matrix*Porphyry , a Neoplatonic philosopher*Porphyrio, also known as Pomponius Porphyrio, a Latin grammarian, fl....
, which is lost.

Bibliography

  • Philostorgius editor and translator Philip R. Amidon, S.J. (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007).
  • ???????????. ?????????? „????????? ???????”. – ?: ????????? ???????? ?V-V ?????. ?, 2007 (??????? ?????????? ? ?????????????).


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