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  Acephali from a without and kephale head is a term...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Acephali from a without and kephale head is a term...
Certain persons in England England during the reign of King Henry I of England Henry I of England were called Acephali because they had no lands by virtue of which they could acknowledge a superior lord.
The name is also given to certain legendary races described by ancient naturalists and geographers as having no heads, their mouths and eyes being in their breasts, generally identified with Pliny Pliny's Blemmyae Blemmyae.
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 Chapter Ecclesiastical Discord. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon
On a subject which engrossed the thoughts and discourses of men, it was difficult to preserve an exact neutrality; a book, a sermon, a prayer, rekindled the flame of controversy; and the bonds of communion were alternately broken and renewed by the private animosity of the bishops.
The space between Nestorius and Eutyches was filled by a thousand shades of language and opinion; the acephali of Egypt, and the Roman pontiffs, of equal valor, though of unequal strength, may be found at the two extremities of the theological scale.
The acephali, without a king or a bishop, were separated above three hundred years from the patriarchs of Alexandria, who had accepted the communion of Constantinople, without exacting a formal condemnation of the synod of Chalcedon.
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 Severus of Antioch - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Severus of Antioch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Severus, patriarch of Antioch (AD 512 - 519), a native of Sozopolis in Pisidia, by birth and education a pagan, baptized in the martyry of Leontius at Tripolis (Evagr.
He almost at once openly united himself with the Acephali, repudiating his own baptism and his baptizer, and even the Catholic church itself as infected with Nestorianism (Labbe, u.s.).
Upon embracing Monophysite doctrines, he entered a monastery apparently belonging to that sect between Gaza and its port Majuma.
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 jakarta.ca - Acephali   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
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 acephali - OneLook Dictionary Search
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ACEPHALI : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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 qatar.ca - Acephali   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
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"'''Acephali'''" (from ''a-'', "without," and ''kephale'', "head") is a term applied to several sects as having no head...
The Acephali are a race of beings from Libya, whose heads are either removable or lie in their chests.
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 St Isidore of Seville
The purity of their doctrine, and the severity of the canons enacted in them, drawn up chiefly by him, are incontestable monuments of his great learning and zeal.
In the council of Seville, in 619, in which he presided, he, in a public disputation, convinced Gregory (a bishop of the Acephali) of his error, who was come over from Syria; and so evidently did he confute the Eutychian heresy that Gregory upon the spot embraced the Catholic faith.
In 610, the bishops of Spain, in a council held at Toledo, agreed to declare the archbishop of that city Primate of all Spain, as, they say, he had always been acknowledged; which decree King Gundemar confirmed by a law the same year, and St. Isidore subscribed the same.
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 Manuscript Melbourne 1975.0096   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
After Pope Vigilius, who deserves to be remembered, was settled in the royal city, he promulgated a sentence of condemnation against Theodora, then the empress, and against the Acephali, and afterwards the city of Rome was attacked and captured.
Did the Acephali therefore have a good case, and were they unjustly condemned, when such things happened after their condemnation?
For it will not suit any one of you, nor others who have been instructed in the mysteries of the Catholic faith, to say this or admit it in any way.
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 Philosophical Explanation of Hypostatical Union in John Damascene's Fount of Knowledge: Theandros - Online Journal of ...
Thus, it is not surprising, that John of Damascus, known as a defender of the orthodox faith, found it necessary to rise his voice against these Christological heresies.
Monophysites of the time were known by several names: Egyptians, Jacobites, Severians, Aphthartodocetea and Acephali.
Protesting against the Monophysite heresies Damascene had written several works, namely On the Composite Nature against the Acephali, The Letter on the Thrice Holy Hymn (Trisagion) and The Tome against the Jacobites.
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 Severus of Antioch . Nestorianism . Constantinople . Justinian I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Severus, patriarch of Antioch AD 512 - 519, a native of Sozopolis in Pisidia, by birth and education a Paganism pagan, baptized in the martyry of Leontius at Tripolis Evagr.
He almost at once openly united himself with the Acephali, repudiating his own baptism and his baptizer, and even the Catholic church itself as infected with Nestorianism Labbe, u.s Upon embracing Monophysite doctrines, he entered a monastery apparently belonging to that sect between Gaza and its port Majuma.
Here he met Peter the Iberian, a zealous Eutychian, who had been ordained bishop of Gaza by Theodosius, the Monophysite monk, during
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 Class Field Trip - HPforums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
You can RP in it as if u were on a field trip after I post everything :P
Acephali --These creatures look exactly like humans except for one important detail: their faces are on their chests.
Alburak -- The Al Burak is a mule with the head of a beautiful woman and a tail and mane of peacock feathers.
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 report writers - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
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