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- adjective Pertaining to Eutyches, to
Eutychianism , or to Eutychians. - noun One who believes in
Eutychianism .
Etymologies
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What is known as the Eutychian controversy is less a dogmatic controversy than a struggle between the patriarchs of the East for supremacy, using party theological differences as a support.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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The Catholics considered this addition as containing the error of the Eutychian Theopathists, who maintained that the divinity had suffered; they, however, chanted the trisagion with the addition, to avoid irritating the emperor
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Such are the writers of the first three hundred years, before the Nicene council, in reference to the doctrine of the Trinity; and so the succeeding writers, before the stating of the Macedonian, Eutychian, and Nestorian heresies.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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The saint wrote him an answer full of apostolic spirit; in which, besides solidly confuting the Eutychian error, he added, that he was ready to lay down his life for the faith of the church.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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St. Euthymius showed great zeal against the Nestorian and Eutychian heretics.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Eutychian, or Jacobite, all were to him as the scholastic disputes of noble and intellectual Europe to the camps of gypsies.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various
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But being soon after driven out of the city by the imperial commander, this so inflamed the Eutychian party, that their barefaced attempts obliged the holy patriarch to take sanctuary in the baptistery adjoining to the church of St. Quirinus, where the schismatical rabble breaking in, they stabbed him on Good-Friday, in the year 557.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Chalcedon, in 451, and died obstinate and impenitent, in the Eutychian heresy, and his other crimes, in his banishment at Gangres, in 454.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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This piece, moreover, is too direct a confutation of the Eutychian error to have been written before its birth: or if it had made its appearance, how could it have escaped all the antagonists of that heresy?
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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The emperor Anastasius patronized the Eutychian heresy, and used all possible means to engage our saint in his party.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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