Lucian of Antioch
Lucian of Antioch (also Lucian of Samosata; * 250 in Samosata, † January 7 312 in Nicomedia ) was a theologian and priest in Antioch.
Lucian, born at Samosata as a child respected parents, was educated at Edessa. He settled in Antioch, where he worked as a priest in the Orthodox community. Lucian enjoyed general high reputation due to his ascetic life and his scholarship. He rejected the allegorical method of the Alexandrian school as an interpretation of the Bible flatly refused and suggested a system of literal interpretation before, the Antiochian school, fully developed in the fourth century. Both the Arians and the Nestorians appealed to Lucian and his school. From the Antiochian school also John Chrysostom, Diodorus and Theodore of Mopsuestia were born.
When Paul was excommunicated from Samosata, created tensions between Lucian and the Church, until he was expelled from the Antioch community. This break with the Orthodox Church took over the periods of the bishops Domnus, Timaeus, and Cyril to 303
Lucian was known as a teacher of the later Arians including Arius and Eusebius of Nicomedia. Nevertheless, he was taken shortly before his death back in the Orthodox Church and canonized by the end of the 4th century.
Under the Roman Emperor Maximinus Daia, he was arrested and brought to Nicomedia, where he tortured and after he had made a public profession of faith, was sentenced to death.
His grave was initially a place of pilgrimage for the Arians; He is revered in the Catholic Church as martyrs.
An old tradition says that a confession of Lucian was the basis for the second commitment of Antioch. This commitment has undoubtedly a typical eastern creed as a basis and connect with Lucian 's possible, but not proven.
Lucian was the author of a widely used Bible review.