Eunomius of Kizik ( Greek Εὐνόμιος Κυζίκου , lat. Eunomius Cyzicenus ; died c. 394) - Greek exegete, Bishop of Kizik ( 360 - 361 ), since 370 Bishop of Beria Thracian , a representative of the extreme Anomean direction of Arianism .
| Eunomius | ||
|---|---|---|
| Εὐνόμιος | ||
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| 360 - 361 | ||
| Church | Kizik Orthodox Church | |
| Community | Arian community | |
| Predecessor | Eleusius | |
| Successor | Eleusius | |
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| c 370 | ||
| Church | Verian Orthodox Church | |
| Community | Arian community | |
| Predecessor | Demophile [1] [2] | |
| Successor | Luke I [2] [3] | |
| Birth | 335 (?) Dacora, Cappadocia , Roman Empire | |
| Death | 394 Dacora, Cappadocia , Roman Empire | |
| Episcopal consecration | 360 year | |
Biography
Born in Cappadocia, he studied rhetoric in Constantinople, then theology in Antioch. For a second, Ptolemaida , bishop of Cyrenaica , was sent to Alexandria, where he became secretary of the Arian Aetius of Antioch . After the death of the emperor, Constantius Gallus, Eunomius and Aetius returned to Antioch, where they entered the circle of the Archbishop Eudoxius of Antioch, later the archbishop of Constantinople, and were ordained them deacons.
To the Council of Constantinople in 359, convened by the emperor Constantius , he wrote the book Apologia, in which he developed the ideas of Arianism in a rationalistic spirit, to which Vasily Kesariysky responded with the essay Against Eunomius.
Eunomius participated in the Council of Constantinople in 381, at which Emperor Theodosius I approved the new, Nicene-Constantinople creed , his teaching was anathematized by the first rule of the council, however after the council he continued to preach his teaching privately and was exiled to the Lesser Scythia [4] .
In 398, under the son of Theodosius Emperor Arcadia , the writings of Eunomius were put on fire and survived in fragments to this day.
Christological work
In his Apology, considering the Trinity issue, Eunomius argued that Jesus Christ was created by the Father and, therefore, is not similar ( Greek ἀνόμοιος - hence the name of the doctrine - Anomaeanism ) to the Father in essence, but similar to him by will. According to Eunomius, the divinity of the essence of Christ consists in the fact that he is the only entity directly created by God; Christ is the Only Begotten God, the rest of the world was created the Only Begotten in accordance with the will of God, that is, the Son is the doer of the will of the Father. Spirit, according to Eunomius, came from the will of the Father and the action of the Son and is called to sanctify creation.
Thus, the debate about consubstantiality ( Greek ὁμοούσιος , omousius) or coexistence ( Greek ὅμοιος , omoyusius) of the Son and Father Eunomius resolved in favor of foreign substance ( Greek ετερουσιον , heterousius) [5] .
The subordinationism of Trinity at Eunomius is close to the spirit of the ideas of middle Platonism : the Father is at the top of the hierarchy of being, not directly touching it, but influencing him through intermediaries.
Works
- Eunomius . Apology. / Per. and approx. G. I. Benevich. Apology to apology. / Per. D.S. Biryukova. // Anthology of Eastern Christian theological thought. Orthodox and heterodoxia: In 2 volumes T. 1 / Under scientific. ed. G. I. Benevncha and D. S. Biryukova; comp. G.I. Benevich. - M., St. Petersburg: "Nikaia" - RCAA , 2009. - 672 p. - ( Smaragdos Philocalias ; Byzantine philosophy: v. 4.). - S. 248-268. - ISBN 5-98478-001-9
See also
- Agnoyites
Notes
- ↑ Oriens christianus, in quatuor patriarchatus digestus . Studio & opera RPF Michaelis Le Quien . Opus posthumum. Parisiis, ex Typographia regia, 1740. T. I, pp . 1165-1166 (lat.) (Greek)
- ↑ 1 2 Βουδούρη, Αθανασίου Γ. Επισκοπική προσωπογραφία της μητροπόλεως Βέροιας και Ναούσης κατά την περίοδο της οθωμανοκρατίας (1430-1912) . - Θεσσαλονίκη, 2008 .-- P. 51.
- ↑ Βουδούρη, Αθανασίου Γ. Επισκοπική προσωπογραφία της μητροπόλεως Βέροιας και Ναούσης κατά την περίοδο της οθωμανοκρατίας (1430-1912) . - Θεσσαλονίκη, 2008 .-- P. 49.
- ↑ Socrates Scholastic . Church History, Book V, Chapter 20
- ↑ A.V. Kartashev . Ecumenical Councils, "Anomei"