Eutyches (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
John Chapman · 1913
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Eutyches was a fifth-century archimandrite, head of a monastery outside Constantinople, whose name stuck to the teaching of one nature in Christ after the Incarnation. Aged seventy in 448, he had ruled some three hundred monks for thirty years. He was no scholar, but he had weight through Chrysaphius, minister of Theodosius II, to whom he had stood godfather. A fierce foe of Nestorianism, he denounced a supposed revival of it at Constantinople.
Eusebius of Dorylaeum counter-charged him with heresy before Flavian's synod. Eutyches refused to leave his monastery, which he called his tomb, and would confess Christ only as of two natures, not in two natures, with flesh not the same as ours. The synod condemned and deposed him. His cause then split the East, drew in Pope Leo, and led through the stormy council of Ephesus in 449 to the definition of Chalcedon.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | John Chapman |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |