John of Scythopolis
6th-century bishop
John Scythopolita ( c. 536 –550), also known as "the Scholasticus", bishop of Scythopolis in Palestine , where Beit She'an is today, was a Byzantine theologian and lawyer adhering to neo-Chalcedonian theology. [1]
He is famous for several works (lost) against Monophysite heresy : his major one is a treatise written ca. 530, defending the theory of " dioenergism ", [2] against his contemporary Severus of Antioch. Another work attacked the heretic Eutyches, one of the founders of Monophysitism.
We have some data about him by Photius , learned bishop of Byzantium . [3]
Hans Urs von Balthasar suggested than John was the author of much of Maximus the Confessor 's scholia. [4] [5]
A recent theory by Byzantinist Carlo Maria Mazzucchi suggests that John of Scythopolis' was aware that the Corpus Dionysiacum was a forgery and that his awareness is revealed by his extensive marginal commentary—despite the fact that John's commentary apparently defends the originality of the Corpus . [6]
Notes
- ↑ A doctrine following the Christological path of the general council of Chalcedon (451), about the dual (human & divine) nature of Christ, integrated with the orthodox tenets of Cyril of Alexandria on the predominance of the divinity in Christ's unity.
- ↑ Teaching Christ's dual source of vital activity: both human and divine.
- ↑ "Photius, Bibliotheca or Myriobiblion (Cod. 1-165, Tr. Freese)" .
- ↑ Daley The Cambridge companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar - Page 206 Edward T. Oakes, David Moss - 2004
- ↑ Critica et philologica, Nachleben, first two centuries, Tertullian ... - Page 120 Maurice F. Wiles, International Conference on Patristics - 2001 Corderius' edition also attributes the entirety of the scholia to a single author — Maximus the Confessor — but this attribution has long been questioned. In 1940, Hans Urs von Balthasar attempted to resolve the question of authorship.
- ↑ Mazzucchi, Carlo Maria (2017). "Impudens societas, sive Ioannes Scythopolitanus conscius Areopagiticae fraudi" [ An insolent coven, or: John of Scythopolis being aware of the Areopagite fraud ] . Aevum (in Latin). 91 (2): 289–94 – via JSTOR.
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