I'm dying to know what the play was about???
Meg
> My one appearance on the stage, in a school play, was as Zeno the
> Isaurian, the Eastern Emperor (450-91). "His life was a tissue of
> treachery and violence, and his reign a succession of disastrous wars
> against his relations and ministers, and against the Ostrogoths"
> (ODCC).
> I would of course have turned down the part if I had known this at the
> time.
> He found it necessary to make concessions to the Monophysites, and
> accordingly put forward an Edict of Unity, the 'Henotikon' in 482.
> This was the work of Acacius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and Peter
> Mongo, Patriarch of Alexandria. You can find the text in Bettenson,
> "Documents of the Christian Church" pp. 123-126.
> It reaffirmed the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, accepted the 'Twelve
> Anathemas' of Cyril of Alexandria, and anathematized both Nestorius and
> Eutyches. So far so good.
> However, it made no mention of the number of natures in Christ,
> appeared to disclaim the Council of Chalcedon, and failed to mention
> the Tome of Leo.
> It was widely accepted in the East, but cut no ice in the West, and in
> fact was the occasion of the first schism between East and West, the
> "Acacian Schism" (482-519). Despite the attempts of Acacius'
> successors, Flavitas (490) and Euphemius (490-6), it was not healed
> until the accession of the Emperor Justin (518).
> It is curious that so many Theology students study the development of
> Christian doctrine only as far as Chalcedon, AD 451, as though that
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