Julian of Halicarnassus explained

Julian, bishop of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ίουλιανός Άλικαρνασσού, d. after 527), also known as Julian the Phantastiast,^[1] was an anti-Chalcedonian theologian who contested with Severus of Antioch^[2] over the phtharos of Christ.^[3] His followers were known as the Aphthartodocetae.^[4] He lived in exile for a time in the monastery of the Enaton in Egypt.^[5]

Julian believed "that the body of Christ, from the very moment of his conception, was incorruptible, immortal and impassible, as it was after the resurrection, and held that the suffering and death on the cross was a miracle contrary to the normal conditions of Christ's humanity",^[6] known as aphthartodocetism.^[7]

Sources

• Book: Hovorun, Cyril. 2008. Will, Action and Freedom: Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century. Leiden-Boston. BRILL. 978-9004166660.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Zachariah of Mitylene, Syriac Chronicle (1899). Book 9. . 2022-11-11 . tertullian.org.
2. [Cyril Hovorun]
3. Web site: Julian of Halicarnasus . 2022-11-11 . www.ccel.org.
4. John Meyendorff, Byzantine Theology: historical trends & doctrinal themes, page 157 (Fordham University Press, 1979).
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6. Mary Clayton, The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England, page 43 (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
7. Susan R. Holman (editor), Wealth and Poverty In Early Church and Society, page 109 (Baker Academic, 2008).