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Justinian and the Making of the Syrian Orthodox Church (Hardcover)
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Justinian and the Making of the Syrian Orthodox Church (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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The Council of Chalcedon in 451 divided eastern Christianity, with
those who were later called Syrian Orthodox among the Christians in
the near eastern provinces who refused to accept the decisions of
the council. These non-Chalcedonians (still better known under the
misleading term Monophysites) separated from the church of the
empire after Justin I attempted to enforce Chalcedon in the East in
518. Volker L. Menze historicizes the formation of the Syrian
Orthodox Church in the first half of the sixth century. This volume
covers the period from the accession of Justin to the second
Council of Constantinople in 553. Menze begins with an exploration
of imperial and papal policy from a non-Chalcedonian, eastern
perspective, then discusses monks, monasteries and the complex
issues surrounding non-Chalcedonian church life and sacraments. The
volume concludes with a close look at the working of "collective
memory" among the non-Chalcedonians and the construction of a
Syrian Orthodox identity. This study is a histoire evenementielle
of actual religious practice, especially concerning the Eucharist
and the diptychs, and of ecclesiastical and imperial policy which
modifies the traditional view of how emperors (and in the case of
Theodora: empresses) ruled the late Roman/early Byzantine empire.
By combining this detailed analysis of secular and ecclesiastical
politics with a study of long-term strategies of memorialization,
the book also focuses on deep structures of collective memory on
which the tradition of the present Syrian Orthodox Church is
founded.
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