Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. XI, 1953 Heresies & schisms

Themistius

TEMISTIO

By Antonio Ferrua

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Also known as: Themistius Calonymus

THEMISTIUS. - Deacon of Alexandria, also called Calonymus, who lived in the 7th century.

He belonged to the Monophysite sect of the Severians, and after the death of Severus he maintained that Jesus, as man, was ignorant of various things, and especially of the day of the universal judgment (Mk. 13:32), thus becoming the head of the Agnoetae (v.). He wrote an apology against Severus, refuted by the monk Theodore. Among his other writings, the one against John Philoponus' doctrine of the resurrection is to be noted. All have been lost; Photius (Bibliotheca, 23 and 108) and Maximus the Confessor (PG 91, 172) give a list of them.

Bibliography

BIBL.: A. Vacant, Agnòtea, in DThC, I, coll. 388-89.

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By Antonio Ferrua

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), col. 1881.

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Chicago

Ferrua, Antonio. “Temistio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 1881. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/temistio-2.

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Ferrua, Antonio. “Temistio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 1881. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/temistio-2.

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  author    = {Ferrua, Antonio},
  title     = {Temistio},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {XI},
  pages     = {1881},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1953},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/temistio-2}
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