The Nestorians imagined Christ’s divinity
Each of the three positions was distinct. The Nestorians imagined Christ’s divinity as a kind of benign possession, a god’s mind in a mortal’s...
Athanasius of Alexandria
Theodosius’s intervention in support of the long guerrilla war that Athanasius of Alexandria fought on behalf of Jesus the god ensured that the hard...
Alexandria Antioch and Constantinople
In a few cities, the more authoritarian and centralized future began to be enacted. The great cities of the east—Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople, and...
Turks Franks Cumans and Manichaeans part 30
For the three stood there sharpening each other’s wits, as if they were boar’s teeth, intent upon rending the Emperor’s arguments. And if any...
Turks Franks Cumans and Manichaeans part 29
Consequently many of the Manichaeans on that occasion went to the priests without any hesitation, confessed their sins and received divine baptism. But many...
Turks Franks Cumans and Manichaeans part 28
For, as all the inhabitants of Philippopolis were Manichaeans except a few, they tyrannized over the Christians there and plundered their goods, caring little...
Turks Franks Cumans and Manichaeans part 27
I rather wished to treat lightly of the doctrine of the Manicha~ans and to explain it very concisely, and even attempt a refutation of...
Turks Franks Cumans and Manichaeans part 26
VIII Not a year had passed before the Emperor heard a rumour that the Comans had crossed the Ister; consequently at the commencement of...
Turks Franks Cumans and Manichaeans part 25
He, as I have said, recounted all that had happened, and the devices the Emperor employed against the Ishmaelites; and the inhabitants of Constantinople...
Turks Franks Cumans and Manichaeans part 24
Part of my history, as I said, I derive from my own memory and part from the men who accompanied the Emperor on his...
