STEPHEN GOBARUS. — Tritheist (Monophysite), in the 6th century he wrote a book in 52 chapters (with an appendix) on controversial theological problems, leaving the reader free to choose the solution.
It was thus a kind of “disputatio in utramque partem” regarding patristic arguments. Our knowledge of this interesting work is based solely on the description found in Photius, *Bibliotheca*, cod. 232. According to a citation in the scholia on St. Basil, the book was entitled: “Theognostos” (Theologumenus; V. PASQUA, in *Nachrichten Kgl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Phil.-hist. Kl.*, 1910, p. 200; cf. pp. 215 sg.). He also cites Severian of Gabala, Clement of Alexandria, and even Pseudo-Ignatius and Pseudo-Justin.
BIBL.: ed. of the fragments in PG 103, 1092-1105; A. Harack, *The «Sic et non» of Stephanus Gobarus*, in *The Harvard Review*, 16 (1923), pp. 205 ff.