Philostorgius

Philostorgius (Greek: Φιλοστοργιος; 368 - ca. 439) was a so-called Anomoean Church historian of the 4th and 5th centuries. (Anomoeanism questioned the Trinitarian account of the relationship between God the Father and Christ and was considered a heresy by trinitarian Christians.) Very little information about his life is available; he was born in Borissus, Cappadocia to Eulampia and Carterius, [Philostorgius, in Photius, "Epitome of the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius", book 9, chapter 9.] and later lived in Constantinople.

He wrote a history of the Arian controversy titled "History of the Church", of which only an epitome by Photius survives, as well as a treatise against Porphyry, which is lost. [Philostorgius, in Photius, "Epitome of the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius", book 10, chapter 10.]

References

Bibliography

* Philostorgius [http://books.google.com/books?id=cz98HwAACAAJ&dq=philostorgius+church+history "Church History",] editor and translator Philip R. Amidon, S.J. (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007).
* Филосторгий. Сокращение „Церковной истории”. – В: Церковные историки ІV-V веков. М, 2007 (Класики античности и средневековья).

External links

* [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/philostorgius.htm Epitome of the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius] from [http://www.tertullian.org The Tertullian Project] .