School of Antioch

The Antiochian school, also called Antiochian Exegetenschule, is a theological school from the early days of Christianity.

Tasks

She sat down a sober exploration of simple sense of biblical writings to the task and rejected the allegorical interpretation. She made a series of thorough and scholarly exegetes have emerged. She set a counterpoint to the Alexandrian school with their idealistic and speculative, often into fantasy rambling direction dar. The contrast of the Antiochene school of Alexandria was initially though a merely scientific, but was under the Origen and Nestorian disputes in a distinct ecclesiastical dogmatic by the Alexandrian school in terms of the ratio of the two natures in Christ to a Monophysite view inclining while the Antiochian school of separation held the same.

Donors and representatives

As founder of the school are Dorotheus and Lucian, presbyter at Antioch in Syria two named, and among their most important representatives Cyril of Jerusalem, Diodorus of Tarsus and his disciple Theodore of Mopsuestia and John Chrysostom Patriarch of Constantinople Opel. Even Arius, the Rookie of the Arian controversy named after him, probably acquired his education as a student of the presbyter and martyr Lucian in this school. The last well-known representative of the school were Ibas of Edessa and the Church historian Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrus.

People

Early Antiochene school

  • Theophilus ( Antioch ) ( Bishop 169-188 )
  • Paul of Samosata ( bishop 260-268 )
  • Lucian of Antioch ( 250-312 )
  • Arius († 336)

Later Antiochian school

  • Eustathius of Antioch ( bishop 324-334 )
  • Markell of Ancyra († 374)
  • Meletius of Antioch ( † 381 )
  • Wulfila († 383 )
  • Diodorus of Tarsus († 394)
  • Flavian of Antioch († 404)
  • John Chrysostom († 407)
  • Theodore of Mopsuestia († 428)
  • Nestorius (d. 451)
  • John of Antioch ( bishop) († 441 )
  • Theodoret of Cyrus († 458 )

More

  • Cyril of Jerusalem
  • Ibas of Edessa

Even Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus are attributed in their exegesis of the Antiochian school. From Basil comes one of the strongest criticisms of the allegorical interpretation of the Bible of the early church history:

"I know the laws of allegory, less of myself as by the works of others. There are actually those that do not recognize the normal meaning of the Scriptures, for the water is not water but a different substance, who see in a plant or a fish, what their fancy wishes to change the way of reptiles and wild animals, so they fit into their allegories, as interpreters of dreams, explain the visions in his sleep so that it serves its own objectives. For me, grass, grass; Plant, fish, wild animal, pet, I take everything literally. "

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