Quotes:Theodoret

Zirkoff, Boris

Theodoret. Bishop of Cyrrhus, b. at Antioch, Syria, about 386 A.D., d. not earlier than 457. Important writer in the domain of exegesis, dogmatic theology, church history and ascetic theology. Early in life entered the cloister; in 423 became Bishop of Cyrrhus, a small city between Antioch and the Euphrates, where he spent the remainder of his life, except for a short period of exile. As an exegete, he belongs to the Antiochene school of which Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia were the heads. He was the chief opponent of the views of Cyril and Dioscurus of Alexandria, and taught that in the person of Christ we must distinguish two natures (hypostases), which are united in one person but are not amalgamated in essence. When the Council of Chalcedon condemned monophysitism, he yielded to pressure and took part in anathematizing Nestorius. Apart from his works on exegetical subjects, Theodoret wrote an Ecclesiastical History in five books, a number of books directed against Cyril, orations, homilies, and a work against heresies in general entitled Haereticarum Fabularum Epitome in five books.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 11, p. 592