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St. Photios on Pope St. Leo, the Tome and Chalcedon
St. Photios the Great ca. 810-893 Leo the Great, whilst bishop of [Old] Rome, carefully demonstrated divine matters in his inspired and dogmatic Tome. In this, he was confirmed by the Fourth Synod. He...
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On Pope St. Leo’s View of the Nestorian Heresy
Pope St. Leo the Great ca. 400-461 Let there, however, remain in force what was decreed specifically against Nestorius at the earlier council of Ephesus, at which Cyril of holy memory then presided,...
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On Icons of the Word Made Flesh
Nativity by Gabriel Toma Chituc St. Theodore the Studite 759-826 If uncircumscribability is characteristic of God’s essence, and circumscription is characteristic of man’s essence, but Christ...
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On St. Cyril and the Mia Physis Formula
Hans Van Loon [T]he most important reason why Cyril is often depicted as a Miaphysite theologian is the self-perpetuating myth that the mia physis formula would be his favorite formula, which he...
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St. Cyril on Dyoenergism and Dyotheletism
St. Cyril of Alexandria ca. 376-444 For things that have the same nature as one another will operate in the same way, while with things whose qualities have a different account the account of their...
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On the Dread in Gethsemane
St. Ambrose of Milan ca. 338-397 [H]e felt dread as a man and was troubled as a man. It was not the Power that was troubled, it was not the Godhead that was troubled: He was troubled in His own soul,...
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On Obedience for Our Sakes
St. Athanasius the Great ca. 297-373 For even though He was God, yet He fulfilled obedience in the flesh and according to the flesh and prevailed over the will of the flesh by the will of the Godhead,...
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On the Suffering God
St. Maximus the Confessor ca. 580-662 As God, He was the motivating principle of His own humanity, and as man He was the revelatory principle of His own divinity. One could say then, that He...
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St. Cyril of Alexandria on Miaphysite Christology and Chalcedonian Dyophysitism
The following Fr. John McGuckin paper is a must-read for those interested in the ongoing dialogue between the Orthodox and the Anti-Chalcedonian Miaphysites. Fr. John is an expert on St. Cyril’s...
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On Chalcedon and Semantics
Fr. Georges Florovsky 1893-1979 I do not think our separation [with Anti-Chalcedonians] is due only to historical misunderstandings about the terms physis, hypostasis, ousia, prosopon, etc. These terms...
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