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30 For the Council of Constantinople, see Davis, Chapter Six, with background

discussion in Gray, Chadwick, etc.

31 For a discussion of the deteriorating position of Jews in this period, see

Lange.

32 Quoted in McGinn, p.113.

33 Cameron, p.217.

34 Gray (p.235) sums up the results of Justinian’s religious policy: ‘Byzantine

theology would never be the same. It would never again have the range of

inquiry possible in a church that accepted both Antiochene and Alexandrian

interpretations of scripture. The affair of the Three Chapters had effectively

consolidated control of exegesis in the hands of the one person whose job it was

to represent the mind of the church (and an exceedingly single-minded church it

had become) - the emperor. The often fallible and brawling bishops of history

became the sainted and infallible authorities for a monolithic, unchanging

Christian tradition. Thinking that departed from them in the area of dogma,

especially on the Trinity and on Christology, became impossible.’

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