Theatre of Halicarnassus in modern Bodrum, with the crusader Bodrum Castle seen in the background.

Julian, bishop of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ίουλιανός Άλικαρνασσού, d. after 527), also known as Julian the Phantastiast,[1] was an anti-Chalcedonian theologian who contested with Severus of Antioch[2] over the phtharos of Christ.[3] His followers were known as the Aphthartodocetae.[4] He lived in exile for a time in the monastery of the Enaton in Egypt.[5]

Julian believed "that the body of Christ, from the very moment of his conception, was incorruptible, immortal and impassible, as it was after the resurrection, and held that the suffering and death on the cross was a miracle contrary to the normal conditions of Christ's humanity",[6] known as aphthartodocetism.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Zachariah of Mitylene, Syriac Chronicle (1899). Book 9". tertullian.org. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  2. ^ Cyril Hovorun, Will, Action and Freedom: Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century (Leiden, Brill, 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-16666-0). Page 28: "Julian of Halicarnassus. One such question was raised by Julian, bishop of Halicarnassus (d. after 527). Like Severus, Julian believed in the single dominating divine energeia of Christ. He developed the initial Severan concept of the single energeia and single property into an original teaching about Christ's uncorrupt body."
  3. ^ "Julian of Halicarnasus". www.ccel.org. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  4. ^ John Meyendorff, Byzantine Theology: historical trends & doctrinal themes, page 157 (Fordham University Press, 1979). ISBN 0-8232-0967-9
  5. ^ Andreas Juckel (2011), "The Enaton", in Sebastian P. Brock; Aaron M. Butts; George A. Kiraz; Lucas Van Rompay (eds.), Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition, Gorgias Press, retrieved 23 October 2019.
  6. ^ Mary Clayton, The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England, page 43 (Cambridge University Press, 2004). ISBN 0-521-58168-0
  7. ^ Susan R. Holman (editor), Wealth and Poverty In Early Church and Society, page 109 (Baker Academic, 2008). ISBN 978-0-8010-3549-4

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