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... Alois Grillmeier still holds the crown as the greatest authority on Christology in many peoples minds, but; while he's top-notch, I find his work to be a little dated.


Grillmeier gives a devastating critique of Severus's self-contradictory attacks on orthodoxy. Brian E. Daley SJ, a student ...

I think you may have posted Palmer twice and not Grillmeier 2.1, but only Grillmeier 2.2. One of the Grillmeier volumes has a long section on Severus showing he was embarrassed by Saint Cyril's dyophysite passages (see also Allen, Severus text 4, where Severus calls Cyril's 433 agreement "prattle ...

The posted excerpt and the attached PDF are not serious history, but propaganda. For starters, the PDF contains a fraudulent "quotation" from Saint Leo's famous Tome to Flavian. Leo's Tome never said "Christ the two, the God and the Man, came." Including such a non-existent quotation in that article ...

The Non-Chalcedonians lie. The early Fathers spoke of two natures, deity and humanity without confusion in one person. My postings contain the responses and evidence that you claimed did not exist, but which you requested. Too much evidence, so you refuse to read any? The reason I started writing on ...

Chadwick and you provided no evidence for the Anatolius-murderer theory. Many bishops swore at Chalcedon to Dioscorus's tactics. I believe Evagrius and several other ancient written sources testify to a traditional understanding of Flavian's death. The evidence is also in scholarly literature ...

"one consideration which lends a disturbing plausiblity to the view that the February date is right.... Leo would never for one moment have thought of recognizing Anatolius as de jure bishop of Constantinople if Flavian had been alive.... they realized that his continued survival was an absolutely ...

When did you refute it? .... I've declined to respond to a lot of things, ... You haven't provided any counter-points, you've just claimed that it's been refuted and every time I point out the contradiction it's only more special-pleading: It was only three bishops.....There was no vote to ...