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  Asterius of Amasea, Sermons (1904). Preface to the online edition
While browsing through my copy of J. Quasten's "Patrology" (vol.3, p.300) about a year ago, I became aware that a translation existed of five sermons by the 4th century Cappadocian father, Asterius, Bishop of Amasea (not to be confused with the Arian polemicist, Asterius the Sophist).
Oration 11, On the martyrdom of St. Euphemia, is important for the history of art, as in it Asterius describes a painting of the martyrdom and compares it to pictures by Euphranor and Timomachus.
The text is quoted twice by the second council of Nicaea in 787 as evidence in favour of the veneration of images.
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 Asterius
(1) Asterius of Petra, a bishop of Arabia, ill-treated by the Arian faction at the Council of Sardica (343) for withdrawing from them his support, and exiled to Upper Libya in Egypt, whence he was recalled in 362 by the edict of Julian that restored all the banished bishops.
He took part in the Council of Alexandria (362), called, among other reasons, for the purpose of healing the Meletian schism that was rendering the Church of Antioch.
(3) Asterius of Cappadocia, a Greek sophist, a friend of Arius, and also his fellow student in the school of Lucian of Antioch.
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 sophist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Related phrases: casuist sophister gorgias sophism alcidamas choricius of gaza eunapius favorinus hippias libanius longus procopius of gaza protagoras sophistical sophistry zenobius
Many of the Sophists doubdtless card not for truth or morality, and merely professed to teach how to make the worse appear the better reason; but there scems no reason to hold that they were a special class, teaching special opinions; even Socrates and Plato were sometimes styled Sophists.
Sophist n 1: any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects 2: someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious [syn: casuist]
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 Hermias Sozomen - Nicene & Post-Nicene, Series 2 - Writing of the Early Church Fathers on StudyLight.org
When this sophist was on his death-bed he was asked by his friends who should take his place.
The clergy and people were unanimous in electing him; their choice was approved by the emperor, who also sent the embassy which should conduct him; and, to confer greater solemnity on his ordination, a council was convened.
Asterius acted very prudently in sending for John before the citizens of Antioch knew what was about to occur; for they would probably have excited a sedition, and have inflicted injury on others, or subjected themselves to acts of violence, rather than have suffered John to be taken from them.
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 Asterius of Cappadocia - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
ASTERIUS, of Cappadocia, sophist and teacher of rhetoric in Galatia, was converted to Christianity about the year 300, and became the disciple of Lucian, the founder of the school of Antioch.
During the persecution under Maximian (304) he relapsed into paganism, and thus, though received again into the church by Lucian and supported by the Eusebian party, never attained to ecclesiastical office.
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 NPNF2-04. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Further, Asterius, the unprincipled sophist, the patron too of this heresy, has added in his own treatise, that what is not made, but is ever, is ‘unoriginate
But if they still are satisfied with merely asking, ‘Is the Unoriginate one or two?’ they must be told first of all, as ill-educated men, that many are such and nothing is such, many, which are capable of origination, and nothing, which is not capable, as has been said.
But if they ask according as Asterius ruled it, as if ‘what is not a work but was always’ were unoriginate, then they must constantly be told that the Son as well as the Father must in this sense be called unoriginate.
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 asterius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Related phrases: asterius the sophist asterius of cappadocia
His Roman name is Asterius.Some say that Asterion whas in fact the MinotaurTheres a short tale written by Jorge Luis Borges ("The House of Asterion") about the subject.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 251 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A son of Onasimus, and grandson of Apsines No. 1, is likewise called an Athenian sophist.
It is not impossible that he may be the Apsines whose commentary on Demosthenes is mentioned by Ulpian (adDemosth.
This enmity grew so much that Athens in the end found itself in a state of civil warfare, which required the presence of a Roman proconsul to suppress.
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 BRILL
This volume is the first critical edition of the theological fragments of Asterius of Cappadocia, the so-called Arian Sophist, who lived in the early fourth century.
The second part consists of the 77 theological fragments of Asterius of Cappadocia with a German translation.
In the third part a commentary is given for each fragment explaining the content, the language and also the authenticity of the texts.
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 Asterius the Sophist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Few of his writings have been recovered in their entirety (latest edition by Markus Vinzent).
Fragments of his Syntagmation are preserved by Saint Athanasius and Marcellus of Ancyra.
A collection of Homilies on the Psalms, including some Easter homilies, edited by Marcel Richard under his name, were written by another Asterius who lived in or around Antioch in c.
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 Of Marcellus Bishop of Ancyra and Asterius the Sophist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Of Marcellus Bishop of Ancyra and Asterius the Sophist
THE bishops assembled at Constantinople deposed also Marcellus bishop of Ancyra, a city of Galatia Minor, on this account.
Now Asterius was in constant association with the bishops, and especially with those of their number who did not discountenance the Arian doctrine: he also attended their Synods, in the hope of insinuating himself into the bishopric of some city: but he failed to obtain ordination, in consequence of having sacrificed during the persecution.
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 Early Arian History
He is often referred to as the Great Heretic; scorned as a teacher of false doctrine and a servant of the devil, his name is Arius, and his doctrine and teachings are known as Arianism.
Following the works of Robert Gregg and Dennis Groth, early Arianism shall be defined primarily as those doctrines and beliefs put forward by the movement’s first writers: Arius (256-336), Asterius the Sophist (d.
The teachings and works of second generation Arians, commonly referred to as neo-Arians, and those who attempted a compromise with the Nicene Christians after the first Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, commonly referred to as semi-Arians, will not be examined.
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 asterius - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
We found 3 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word asterius:
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ASTERIUS (C. 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
Asterios, Sophist, in: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche I, 3.
Asterius der Sophist (von Kappadozien), in: Siegmar Döpp/Wilhelm Geerlings (Hgg.), Lexikon der antiken christlichen Literatur, Freiburg etc. 1998, Sp.
Asterius der Homilet, in: Siegmar Döpp/Wilhelm Geerlings (Hgg.), Lexikon der antiken christlichen Literatur, Freiburg etc. 1998, Sp.
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 Who was a Christian in the Holy Land?: M
He suffered from the Arians, and was exiled to Africa, he died in peace.
Marinus, the soldier, and Asterius, the senator, are on March 3, in the year 260 in Acta Sanctorum.
He stayed elsewhere in Palestine, Egypt, Sinai, Cyprus, Antioch, Egypt again, and finally Rome (614), usually accompanied by his disciple Sophronius the Sophist, who became later Patriarch of Jerusalem.
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 Newman Reader - Treatises of St. Athanasius - Discourse 1
But if they still are satisfied with merely asking, "Is the Ingenerate one or two?" they must be told first of all, as ill-educated men, that many are such and nothing is such, many which are capable of generation, and nothing is not {226} capable, as has been said.
But if they ask according as Asterius ruled it, as if "what is not a work but was always" were ingenerate, then they must constantly be told that the Son as well as the Father must in this sense be called ingenerate.
For to say that God is in this sense Ingenerate, does not shew that the Son is a thing generate, it being evident from the above proofs that the Word is such as He is who begat Him.
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 Newman Reader - Treatises of St. Athanasius - Discourse 3
For He is Himself the Father's Power and Wisdom, and by partaking [Note 12] of Him things generate are sanctified in the Spirit; but the Son Himself is not Son by participation [Note 13], but is the Father's proper Offspring [Note C].
But now let us see what Asterius the Sophist says, the {401} retained pleader [Note 17] for the heresy.
And does he not shew himself a stranger to the Apostle [Note 19], as being puffed up with persuasive words of wisdom, and thinking thereby to succeed in deceiving, not understanding himself what he saith nor whereof he affirms?
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 HERESIES
But now let us see what Asterius the Sophist says, the retained pleader(1) for the heresy.
And Asterius, the advocate(5) for the heresy, acquiesces, when he thus writes, 'For if it be unworthy of the Framer of all, to make at pleasure, let His being pleased be removed equally in the case of all, that His Majesty be preserved unimpaired.
In spite of the Sophist having introduced abundant irreligion in his words, namely, that the Offspring and the thing made are the same, and that the Son is one offspring out of all offsprings that are, He ends with the conclusion that it is fitting to say that the works are by will and pleasure.
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 Tertullian: John KAYE, Ecclesiastical History of the Second and Third Centuries (1845). Chapter 1. pp. 1-66
Eusebius the statement of an anonymous author, supposed by Lardner and others to be Asterius Urbanus, who wrote it about thirteen years after the death of Maximilla, one of the prophetesses who accompanied Montanus.
The same anonymous author adds, that Montanus and Maximilla hanged themselves; and that Theodotus, one of the earliest supporters of their cause, was taken up into the air and dashed to pieces by the Spirit of falsehood, to whom he had consigned himself under the expectation that he should be conveyed into heaven.
He even insinuates, that the works themselves, like the writings of the Sophists, were mere exercises of wit: and that the historical facts and marks of time were introduced by the author in order to give his fiction an appearance of reality.
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 Athanasius - Nicene & Post-Nicene, Series 2 - Writing of the Early Church Fathers on SearchGodsWord.org
For He is Himself the Father's Power and Wisdom, and by partaking of Him things originate are sanctified in the Spirit; but the Son Himself is not Son by participation, but is the Father's own Offspring(11).
But now let us see what Asterius the Sophist says, the retained pleader(14) for the heresy.
And does he not shew himself a stranger to the Apostle(16), as being puffed up with persuasive words of wisdom, and thinking thereby to succeed in deceiving, not understanding himself what he says nor whereof he affirms(17) ?
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 NPNF2-02. Socrates and Sozomenus Ecclesiastical Histories | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Of Marcellus Bishop of Ancyra, and Asterius the…
Chapter XXXVI.—Of Marcellus Bishop of Ancyra, and Asterius the Sophist.
But of this we shall speak more fully in its proper place.
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 Rome - Vol III, Chapter XXXII - Notes
The difference of place is easily reconciled; but the decisive authority of Asterius of Amasia (Orat.
The bishop of Cyrrhus, one of the first men of his age for his learning and piety, applauds the obedience of Theodosius to the divine laws.]
21) mentions her name, (Athenais, the daughter of Leontius, an Athenian sophist,) her baptism, marriage, and poetical genius.
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 1.2.5: Historical origin of the "Trinity" myth: (continued)...
Arius was trained by Lucian of Antioch, the most famous Christian scholar of the fourth century and the last martyr of Diocletian's persecution.
His school also included Eusebius of Nicomedia, Menpophantus of Ephesus, Theognis of Nicæa, Maris of Chalcedon, Leontius of Antioch, Athanasius of Anarzabus and Asterius the Sophist (History of Dogma, Vol.
Athanasius, the bishop who is popularly credited for having formulated this doctrine, confessed that the more he wrote on the matter, the more his thoughts recoiled upon themselves and the less capable he was of clearly expressing his thoughts regarding it.
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 The Development of the Church's Organization
The homilies on the Psalms by Asterius the Sophist were in fact written in the early fourth century, but often reflect a state of liturgical development which can be ascribed to the late third century.
Asterius in the early fourth century speaks so much as a matter of course of the baptismal liturgy as an integral part of the festival of Easter night that the introduction of this liturgical custom must be ascribed to the third century according to him also
The development of a definite octave of Easter is perhaps to be assigned to the end of the third century or the beginning of the fourth, since Asterius takes it for granted as a well-established custom.
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 Amazon.com: "Maris of Chalcedon": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
where it is reported that Asterius came into the circle of Lucian of Antioch, whose members were Eusebius of Nicomedia, Maris of Chalcedon, Theognis of Nicaea, Leontius, later Bishop of Antioch, Antonius of Tarsus in Cilicia, Menophantus, Noominius and Eudoxius, and finally Alexander...
His activity in textual criticism and exegesis is certain, whether there was actually produced in his...
of Arianism were former disciples of Lucian, and they called themselves "Collucianists." Arius, Eusebius of N icomedia, Theognis of Nicea, Maris of Chalcedon, Leontius of Antioch, and Asterius the Sophist were his disciples.
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 The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
And this he did in dependence on the precepts of Aristotle's Categories; there is a book of that name, the scope of which he neither himself perceived, nor had been enlightened on by intercourse with learned persons: so that he was little aware that he was framing fallacious arguments to perplex and deceive himself.
For Aristotle had composed this work to exercise the ingenuity of his young disciples, and to confound by subtle arguments the sophists who affected to deride philosophy.
Wherefore the Ephectic academicians, [387] who expound the writings of Plato and Plotinus, censure the vain subtlety which Aristotle has displayed in that book: but Aëtius, who never had the advantage of an academical preceptor, adhered to the sophisms of the Categories.
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 Asterius of Amasea, Sermons (1904). Preface to the online edition
The definitive edition of Asterius' first 14 sermons is by Cornelius Datema (Leiden: Brill, 1970); the edition of sermons 15 and 16 by the same editor in Sacris Erudiri.
More recent English translations exist of Oration 11, the Ecphrasis of Euphemia, made by Mango and Castelli.
E.A. (trad.), Asterius of Amasea; Ekphrasis on the Holy Martyr Euphemia, in R. (ed.), Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice (Princeton Readings in Religions), Princeton (2000) pp.
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 The Unitarian/Trinitarian Wars (No. 268)
Human sciences and paleo-anthropology would have been better understood and probably more peaceably advanced, avoiding both the Dark Ages and the Inquisition.
The protagonists were Alexander and Athanasius, bishops of Alexandria from 312-328 and 328-373, respectively for the Athanasians; and Arius (256-336), Asterius the Sophist (d.
Unfortunately, with the defeat of the Arians in Spain the history has been written by Athanasians, and a comprehensive, accurate and unbiased reportage is virtually impossible.
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 Pinoy JW Defender
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Oh, they could if they wished, but that would require a high level of sophistication and some very dark motives.
While devout modern Muslims believes the rituals and doctrines of Islam are entirely heavenly in origin and thus cannot have any earthly sources, Middle East scholars have demonstrated beyond all doubt that the rituals and beliefs in Islam can be traced back to pre-Islamic Arabian culture.
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