Publication Details
| Leontius of Byzantium and his treatise “Refutation of syllogisms of Severus” | |
| Title in the language of publication: | Леонтий Византийский и его трактат «Опровержение силлогизмов Севира» |
| Authors: |
Timur Shchukin
Associate Research Fellow at the Sociological institute of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Address: 25/14 7-ya Krasnoarmeyskaya str., St. Petersburg 190005, Russia.
E-mail: tim_ibif@mail.ru
Oleg Nogovitsin
PhD in Philosophy, Senior Researcher at the Sociological institute of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Social Sciences at the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.
Address: 25/14 7-ya Krasnoarmeyskaya str., St. Petersburg 190005, Russia.
E-mail: onogov@yandex.ru
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| Issue: |
P. 165–190.
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| Language: | Russian |
| Document type: | Research Article (introdaction) |
| Acknowledgments: | The reported study was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project number 19-011-00778 “Leontium of Byzantium and Patristics” |
Abstract
The article is a foreword to a publication of commented translation of the Christological treatise by Leontius of Byzantium, a Byzantine theologian of the end of the V — the first half of the VI century, Solutio argumentorum a Severe objectorum (in brief — Solutio), written in support of Chalcedonian Definition against Monophysites of Severian branch. The treatise belongs to the corpus of extant Leontius’ writings and is one of his latest works, probably the last one. In the foreword, we describe the composition of the corpus with indication of the place the treatise has within it; we examine the versions of identifying the person of Leontius with the historic persons of that period known from other sources, which are proposed in the research literature; we discuss the question of chronology of writing the works which constitute the “Leontius’ corpus” and, in particular, that of Solutio; we provide the facts on extant manuscripts of the treatise and on the tradition of its publication. The foreword then renders a critical review of research literature on the treatise. First, we analyze the problem of correlation of Leontius’ of Byzantium position on the issue of common and individual nature of humanity within Christ in the text of Solutio and earlier treatise Contra Nestorianos et Eutychianos. The given problem is one of the most important in modern scientific discussions on the Christian theology of the V — the first third of the VII century, taking into account also the fact that the dating of Leontius’ treatise directly depends on interpretation of the conceptual content of these writings due to the lack of verified data on their author. The translation is performed on the basis of critical edition by Brian Daley: Leontius of Byzantium. Complete Works. Edition and English translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017 (Oxford Early Christian Texts).
Keywords
Christology, Byzantine philosophy, Leontius of Byzantium, Solutio argumentorum a Severe objectorum, Severus of Antioch, John Philoponus, Chalcedonites, Monophysites.
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© Timur Shchukin, 2019 © Oleg Nogovitsin, 2019
