Severus of Antioch

<p>In the first book to be devoted exclusively to Severus well-known author in the field Pauline Allen focuses on a fascinating figure who is seen simultaneously as both a saint and a heretic.</p><p>Part of our popular Early Church Fathers series this volume translates a key selection of Severus' writings which survived in many other languages. Shedding light on his key opposition to the Council of Chalcedon and rehabilitates his reputation as a key figure of late antiquity is examines his his life and times thinking homiletic abilities and his pastoral concerns.</p><p>Severus was patriarch of Antioch on the Orontes in Syria from 512-518. Though he is venerated as an important saint in the Old Oriental Christian tradition he has mostly been regarded as a heretic elsewhere; and as his works were condemned by imperial edict in 536 very little has survived in the original Greek.</p>