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- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Texts and Translations
- Abbreviations
- Series Introduction
- Introduction
- Part I The Beginnings of Christology
- Part II Developing Christological Traditions
- Part III Traditions of Pro-Nicene Christology
- Part IV Controversy over Nestorius
- 40 Eusebius of Dorylaeum, Protest
- 41 Cyril of Alexandria, Second Letter to Nestorius
- 42 Nestorius of Constantinople, Second Letter to Cyril
- 43 Proclus of Constantinople, Homily on the Holy Virgin Theotokos
- 44 Nestorius of Constantinople, Three Letters to Celestine of Rome
- 45 John Cassian, On the Incarnation of the Lord against Nestorius 3.1–16 and 5.1–4
- 46 Cyril of Alexandria, Third Letter to Nestorius
- 47 Nestorius of Constantinople, Letter to John of Antioch
- 48 Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Refutation of the Twelve Anathemas of Cyril of Alexandria
- 49 Acts of the Council of Ephesus ( June–October 431): Selected Proceedings
- 50 Cyril of Alexandria, Letter of Reunion to John of Antioch
- 51 Ibas of Edessa, Letter to Mari the Persian
- 52 Cyril of Alexandria, First Letter to Succensus
- 53 Cyril of Alexandria, Second Letter to Succensus
- 54 Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Eranistes: Epilogue
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Scriptural Index
51 - Ibas of Edessa, Letter to Mari the Persian
from Part IV - Controversy over Nestorius
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2022
- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Texts and Translations
- Abbreviations
- Series Introduction
- Introduction
- Part I The Beginnings of Christology
- Part II Developing Christological Traditions
- Part III Traditions of Pro-Nicene Christology
- Part IV Controversy over Nestorius
- 40 Eusebius of Dorylaeum, Protest
- 41 Cyril of Alexandria, Second Letter to Nestorius
- 42 Nestorius of Constantinople, Second Letter to Cyril
- 43 Proclus of Constantinople, Homily on the Holy Virgin Theotokos
- 44 Nestorius of Constantinople, Three Letters to Celestine of Rome
- 45 John Cassian, On the Incarnation of the Lord against Nestorius 3.1–16 and 5.1–4
- 46 Cyril of Alexandria, Third Letter to Nestorius
- 47 Nestorius of Constantinople, Letter to John of Antioch
- 48 Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Refutation of the Twelve Anathemas of Cyril of Alexandria
- 49 Acts of the Council of Ephesus ( June–October 431): Selected Proceedings
- 50 Cyril of Alexandria, Letter of Reunion to John of Antioch
- 51 Ibas of Edessa, Letter to Mari the Persian
- 52 Cyril of Alexandria, First Letter to Succensus
- 53 Cyril of Alexandria, Second Letter to Succensus
- 54 Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Eranistes: Epilogue
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Scriptural Index
Summary
Ibas was the bishop of Edessa from 435 to 457. In 449 the second Council of Ephesus deposed him and several other bishops for their dyophysite (“Nestorian”) views, but the Council of Chalcedon exonerated and reinstated him in 451. A century later he would gain infamy as the author of one of the Three Chapters – the letter to the otherwise unknown Persian cleric Mari translated here – that Emperor Justinian had condemned at the second Council of Constantinople in 553. Written in the mid-430s after Cyril of Alexandria and John of Antioch had agreed to the so-called Formula of Reunion, Ibas’s Letter to Mari is important for its succinct narrative account of the Council of Ephesus in 431 and the reconciliation between Cyril of Alexandria and John of Antioch in 433, as well as for the window it provides on the Christological divisions within the Christian community in Osrhoene.
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- The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings , pp. 726 - 730Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022