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GLOSSARY<br />

therefore subordinate. This view was rejected at Nicaea in 325 in<br />

favour <strong>of</strong> the homoousios formula.<br />

Chalcedonians. Supporters <strong>of</strong> the Council <strong>of</strong> Chalcedon and its formula<br />

that Christ was one person in two natures, the divine consubstantial<br />

with the Father, the human consubstantial with us.<br />

Consubstantial. See homoousios.<br />

Diptychs. Lists <strong>of</strong> names <strong>of</strong> those for whom prayers were o¡ered during<br />

the liturgy. Public recitation <strong>of</strong> these lists demonstrated who was<br />

accepted as orthodox, so that removal or incorporation <strong>of</strong> a speci¢c<br />

name was accepted as evidence <strong>of</strong> the doctrinal a⁄liation <strong>of</strong> a particular<br />

see.<br />

Encyclical. A ‘circular’, letter. <strong>The</strong> term is used by <strong>Evagrius</strong> to describe<br />

certain imperial missives (Leo I’s request for bishops’ views;<br />

Basiliscus’ doctrinal expositions), and also covers letters sent by<br />

leading churchmen, for example those from a patriarch to fellow<br />

patriarchs or from a metropolitan bishop to those within his<br />

diocese.<br />

Eutychianist. Adherents <strong>of</strong> the Constantinopolitan abbot Eutyches<br />

who had strongly a⁄rmed the single nature <strong>of</strong> Christ, to the extent<br />

<strong>of</strong> denying that his humanity was consubstantial with that <strong>of</strong><br />

mankind.<br />

Florilegium. A collection <strong>of</strong> excerpts from Scripture and earlier Christian<br />

writers, <strong>of</strong>ten compiled to support a particular doctrinal position.<br />

Gaianist. A supporter <strong>of</strong> the Alexandrian patriarch Gaianas who<br />

espoused Julianist doctrines.<br />

Henoticon. <strong>The</strong> emperor Zeno’s declaration (482) <strong>of</strong> doctrinal unity<br />

(henosis) on the basis <strong>of</strong> the Creeds <strong>of</strong> Nicaea and Constantinople<br />

and the Twelve Anathemas <strong>of</strong> Cyril; it evaded the Christological<br />

question <strong>of</strong> the natures in Christ, failed to endorse the Council <strong>of</strong><br />

Chalcedon and ignored the Tome <strong>of</strong> Leo, with the result that it generated<br />

the Acacian Schism.<br />

homoiousios. Literally ‘<strong>of</strong> similar substance’, a term used by some <strong>of</strong><br />

those who rejected the Council <strong>of</strong> Nicaea but still sought a formulation<br />

to reconcile the homoousian Nicene position and the range <strong>of</strong><br />

neo-Arian views.<br />

homoousios. Literally ‘<strong>of</strong> same substance’, the term used in the Nicene<br />

Creed to describe the relationship between God the Father and God<br />

the Son, with the intention <strong>of</strong> excluding the subordinationist views<br />

connected with Arius and his supporters.

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