Philip of Side

Philip of Side or Philip Sidetes (* 380, † to 431 ) was a late antique church historian. He was born in Side in Pamphylia, near Iconium in Anatolia. He wrote a history of Christianity, which has been preserved fragmentarily. In these fragments, he appeals to the better-known Historia Ecclesiae Eusebius of Caesarea.

Philip was probably quoted the last historian of Papias of Hierapolis, but it is doubtful that he has actually read the five books on the logia ( sayings ) of Jesus. It is considered likely that he has taken his quotations of Eusebius of Caesarea.

Philip of Side studied in Alexandria and then taught to 405 in Side. Later he became a priest in Constantinople Opel in the narrow circle around John Chrysostom. He was several times a candidate for the office of the Patriarch of Constantinople, Opel, and running against Sisinnius I. (425 ), Nestorius ( 428) and Maximian (431 ).

As Nestorius, as representatives of the Antiochian school, which Christ taught two natures have - a divine and a human - and then to Mary the title Theotokos Christ- instead of proposing, and a dispute escalated; Philip was reflected by Side, as a member of the Alexandrian school on the side of Cyril of Alexandria herein saw a violation of the Trinity of God.

From its numerous books, only fragments remain, about his history of the Christian church and his polemic against the Emperor Julian. Possibly based (pseudo) Gelasios of Cyzicus on the work of Philip.