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279: 1060:"For the wicked there are punishments, not perpetual, however, lest the immortality prepared for them should be a disadvantage, but they are to be purified for a brief period according to the amount of malice in their works. They shall therefore suffer punishment for a short space, but immortal blessedness having no end awaits them, the penalties to be inflicted for their many and grave sins are very far surpassed by the magnitude of the mercy to be showed them. The resurrection, therefore, is regarded as a blessing not only to the good, but also to the evil." 1194: 1074: 876:. He received a classic philosophical education at the school of Athens, and very quickly after his education entered into the monastic life. During this period, Diodore's work focused on philosophical treatises and opposing Emperor Julian's attempts to restore paganism in the empire. When an Arian named Leontius was made bishop of Antioch, Diodore and his friend 1304:
What remains is fragments in the catenae on the Hexateuch and the Pauline Epistles. Recently a complete commentary on the Psalms has been discovered, which its editor ascribes to Diodore. Andrew Louth, 'John Chrysostom to Theodoret of Cyrrhus', in Frances Young, Lewis Ayres and Andrew Young, eds,
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The specifics of Diodore's theology are difficult to reconstruct, as all that remains of his works are fragments of uncertain provenance. Much of Diodore's theology has been inferred from the later statements of his students and the intellectual heirs of the Antiochene School.
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As bishop of the see of Tarsus, Diodore continued to speak out for the Nicene understanding of the relationship between the human and the divine in the person of Jesus Christ. He actively opposed both the Arianism and the
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spoke of the Incarnation in ways that left him open to the charge that Christ was not in all aspects human by saying that his mind was divine and non-rational.
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of Diodore was condemned as heretical by later generations, most explicitly at a local synod in Constantinople in 499 which described Diodore's views as
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for food, frequently being imprisoned on account of his beliefs. His physical appearance was rough, but Chrysostom described his expression as angelic.
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in 381. When their mentor Meletius died in 381, Diodore recommended his friend Flavian as his successor, thus prolonging the division in the
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near the city of Antioch. It was through this school that Diodore became the mentor of the controversial theologian and liturgist
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It was his role as the head of the Antiochene School which led to Diodore's exile in 372. Banished to
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taught that Jesus Christ was a creation of god, rather than a child and subordinate to him,
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During his time at the monastery in Antioch, Diodore came under the tutelage of
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ed. Everett Ferguson, second edition (New York:Garland Publishing, 1997).
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ed. Everett Ferguson, second edition (New York:Garland Publishing, 1997).
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in the church, a practice that became widespread among Christians.
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Greek Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Graeca with analytical index
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J. W. Hanson, citing Assemani Bib. Orientalis, III, p. 324.
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During his priesthood, Diodore founded a monastery and
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Diodore was born into a noble family in the area of
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The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
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Diodore of Tarsus
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Antioch
Antakya
Hatay
Turkey
Tarsus
Tarsus
Mersin
Turkey
Church of the East
Christology
John Chrysostom
Theodore of Mopsuestia
Bishop of Tarsus
Christian
Nicene
Tarsus
Antioch
Antakya
Hatay
Turkey
Tarsus
Tarsus
Mersin
Turkey
a series
Eastern Christianity
Christ Pantocrator (Deesis mosaic detail)
Eastern Orthodoxy

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