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John bar Qursos

Syrian bishop
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Also called:
John of Tella
Born:
483
Died:
538, Antioch, Syria (aged 55)
Subjects Of Study:
monophysite
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John bar Qursos (born 483—died 538, Antioch, Syria) was a monk and bishop of Tella (near modern Aleppo, Syria), a leading theological propagator of miaphysitism. A soldier before becoming a monk, John was made bishop in 519 and undertook the spread of a doctrine of Christ’s person and work common to Syrian and Egyptian monasticism, a belief derived from a beatifying inner experience of Christ’s divine transcendence. Attempting a mediatory theological formula, he rejected those positions he considered extreme. On one hand, he dismissed the teaching of the Council of Chalcedon (451) as open to an interpretation of a dual ...(100 of 211 words)

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