medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
In a message dated 16/11/2003 23:30:50, [log in to unmask] writes:
<< Dionysius of Alexandria (d. 265) Dionysius was a student of Origen
and succeed him as the head of the Alexandrian catechetical school,
before going on to become patriarch in 248. He was exiled twice,
which perhaps gave him the leisure to win fame as a great theologian
(although unfortunately his work has only survived in brief
fragments). >>
His exiles were brief periods in hiding during times of persecution and so
were no periods of enforced otium such as fourth-century exiled theologians used
to find leisure to write in their monastic or desert fastnesses (cf.
Nestorius' "Bazaar of Heracleides"). More is known about his career that any other
pre-Nicene bishop apart from Origen and D's contemporary Cyprian because of the
preservation of many of his letters by Eusebius in the Church History.
Graham Gould
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