{"id":159977,"date":"2025-07-25T14:54:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azbuki.bg\/?p=159977"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:51:42","slug":"catholicos-john-of-odzuns-polemic-against-paulicians-and-the-armenian-syrian-council-of-mantzikert-726","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bel.azbuki.bg\/en\/uncategorized\/catholicos-john-of-odzuns-polemic-against-paulicians-and-the-armenian-syrian-council-of-mantzikert-726\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholicos John of \u014cdzun\u2019S Polemic against Paulicians and the Armenian-Syrian Council of Mantzikert (726)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Sofia University \u201cSt Kliment Ohridski\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-02S-02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-02S-02<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>. The paper discusses the activity of the Armenian catholicos Yovhann\u0113s \u014cjnets\u0314i (717 \u2013 728). It sets his polemical treatise against Paulicians, and its Christology, in the context of the council convened by the catholicos in Mantzikert with the participation of both Armenian and Syriac clerics. This council restored communion between two miaphysite Churches, Armenian and West-Syrian. Its significance also resides in the fact that it represented an initiative not of an overarching secular authority, but of separate ecclesiastical institutions. The circumstances conducive to the council\u2019s convocation and its proceedings are analysed with reference to Armenian and Syriac historians of the eleventh to the thirteenth century.<\/p>\n<p><em>Keywords<\/em>: Aphthartodocetism, Christological debates, Church councils, Dualism; Incorruptibility, John of \u014cdzun, Miaphysites, Michael the Syrian; Paulicianism<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bel.azbuki.bg\/en\/member-login\/\">Log in to read the full text<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev Sofia University \u201cSt Kliment Ohridski\u201d https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-02S-02 Abstract. The paper discusses the activity of the Armenian catholicos Yovhann\u0113s \u014cjnets\u0314i (717 \u2013 728). It sets his polemical treatise against Paulicians, and its Christology, in the context of the council convened by the catholicos in Mantzikert with the participation of both Armenian and Syriac clerics. 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