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The Three Chapters
The Three Chapters is the title of Justinian's anathemas, issued 543/544,
against the writings and the person of Theodore of Mopsuestia; against the
writings of Theodoret of Cyrrhus against Cyril of Alexandria; and the
letter of Ibas of Edessa to Maris. The emperor saw in these works the
seeds of Nestorianism and sought to condemn them to conciliate the
Monophysites who saw the established church as Nestorian and rejected the
Council of Chaldedon (451) on that basis. Some in the church, in
particular
Vigilius of Rome and John of Antioch, refused to condemn men
who had died at peace with the church. The emperor failed to reconcile the
Monophysites to the church; the Second Council of Constantinople (553),
the Fifth Oecumenical Council, endorsed The Three Chapters. The name,
the Three Chapters,
came to apply later to the works condemned, rather than to
the anathema.
Karen Rae Keck
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Papst Vigilius und der Dreikapitelstreit, (1865).
Munich: H. Manz, 1865.
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