This links the Syrian Ephrem with the Cappadocian Fathers, and is an important theological bridge between the spiritual view of the two, who held much in common.

Along with the brothers Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, he is known as one of the Cappadocian Fathers.

The Cappadocian Fathers asserted that God's nature is unknowable to man ; helped to develop the framework of hypostases, or three persons united in a single Godhead ; illustrated how Jesus is the eikon of the Father ; and explained the concept of theosis, the belief that all Christians can be assimilated with God in " imitation of the incarnate Son as the divine model.

In these works, St Gregory Palamas uses a distinction, already found in the 4th century in the works of the Cappadocian Fathers, between the energies or operations ( Gr. energeies ) of God and the essence of God.

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He shows familiarity with Proclus, which indicates he wrote no earlier than the 5th century, as well as influence from Saint Clement of Alexandria, the Cappadocian Fathers, Origen of Alexandria, and others.

Like Plotinus and the Cappadocian Fathers before him, Dionysius does not claim to be an innovator, but rather a communicator of a tradition.

Gregory, his brother Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus are collectively known as the Cappadocian Fathers

Like the other Cappadocian Fathers, he was a homoousian, and Against Eunomius affirms the truth of the consubstantiality of the trinity over Eunomius ' Platonic belief that the Father's substance is unengendered, whereas the Son's is engendered.

He had considerable familiarity with the Greek language, and translated many works into Latin, affording access to the Cappadocian Fathers and the Greek theological tradition.

The Cappadocian Fathers of the 4th century said that they believed in God, but they did not believe that God exists in the same sense that everything else exists.

Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa are collectively referred to as the Cappadocian Fathers.

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Orthodox theology rejects Augustine's doctrine of Original Sin and actively opposes any implementation or implication of John Calvin's concepts of total depravity or irresistible grace and of Thomist or scholastic philosophical theology, viewing philosophy and discursive theology as corruptions of the true theology of the Cappadocian and early Desert Fathers which lead the Western Church astray into heresy.

* The Cappadocian Fathers: Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Basil the Great.

The Cappadocian Fathers ( or Cappadocian philosophers ) are Basil the Great ( 330-379 ), who was bishop of Caesarea ; Basil's younger brother Gregory of Nyssa ( c. 332-395 ), who was bishop of Nyssa ; and a close friend, Gregory of Nazianzus ( 329-389 ), who became Patriarch of Constantinople.

The Cappadocian Fathers advanced the development of early Christian theology, for example the doctrine of the Trinity, and are highly respected as saints in both Western and Eastern churches.

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Among her nine siblings were two of the three Cappadocian Fathers, her younger brothers Basil the Great and Saint Gregory of Nyssa, as well as Peter of Sebaste.

His work, through Augustine of Hippo, the Cappadocian Fathers, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and several subsequent Christian and Muslim thinkers, has greatly influenced Western and Near-Eastern thought.

Gregory of Nyssa — unlike the other Cappadocian Fathers — was married, according to his own testimony in his work On Virginity that he could not benefit from the subject of his own work.

This edition is a major scholarly achievement and the philological foundation of the current studies on the Cappadocian Fathers.

* The Cappadocian Fathers ( late 4th century )

The rioters, now armed and probably controlled by their allies in the Senate, also demanded that Justinian dismiss the prefect John the Cappadocian, who was responsible for tax collecting, and the quaestor Tribonian, who was responsible for rewriting the legal code.

John the Cappadocian (), also known as Iohannis Orientalis, was a praetorian prefect of the East ( 532 – 541 ) in the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian I ( r. 527 – 565 ).

Meshech is named with Tubal ( and Rosh, in certain translations ) as principalities of " Gog, prince of Magog " in Ezekiel 38: 2 and 39: 1, and is considered a Japhetite tribe, identified by Flavius Josephus with the Cappadocian " Mosocheni " ( Mushki, also associated with Phrygians or Bryges ) and their capital Mazaca.

He also relied on John Chrysostomos, the Cappadocian fathers and on Ephrem the Syrian, which were also accepted in the West.

Cappadocian (), also known as Cappadocian Greek or Asia Minor Greek, is a mixed language formerly spoken in Cappadocia ( Central Turkey ).

In recent years, the study of Cappadocian has seen a revival following the pioneering work on Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988 ) by Sarah Grey Thomason and Terrence Kaufman, and a series of publications on various aspects of Cappadocian linguistics by Mark Janse, professor at Roosevelt Academy, who has also contributed a grammatical survey of Cappadocian to a forthcoming handbook on Modern Greek dialects edited by Christos Tzitzilis ( Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ).

The Cappadocian sound system includes the Turkish vowels ı, ö, ü, and the Turkish consonants b, d, g, š, ž, tš, dž ( although some of these are also found in Greek words as a result of palatalization ).

And in the East, at the death of Athanasius in 373, the Cappadocian Fathers ( Basil of Caesarea, d. 379 ; his brother Gregory of Nyssa, d. 394 ; and Gregory Nazianzus, d. 390 ), took the lead in support of Nicene orthodoxy.

There have been Christian monasteries such as " The Cappadocian Caves " that used to shelter upwards of 5, 000 monks, or St Pantelaimon's Monastery on the Mount Athos in Greece, which has held up to 3, 000 monks.

Severianus led a legion ( perhaps the IX Hispana ) into Armenia, but was trapped by the great Parthian general Chosrhoes at Elegia, a town just beyond the Cappadocian frontiers, high up past the headwaters of the Euphrates.

Originally embraced into the Cappadocian clan, on April 12, 1444, he rose up against his sire, and committed the act of diablerie.

Other talented individuals included Tribonian, his legal adviser ; Peter the Patrician, the diplomat and longtime head of the palace bureaucracy ; his finance ministers John the Cappadocian and Peter Barsymes, who managed to collect taxes more efficiently than any before, thereby funding Justinian's wars ; and finally, his prodigiously talented generals Belisarius and Narses.

There are a variety of dialects of the Greek language ; the most notable include Cappadocian, Cretan Greek ( which is closely related to most Aegean Islands ' dialects ), Cypriot Greek, Pontic Greek, the Griko language spoken in Southern Italy, and Tsakonian, still spoken in the modern prefecture of Arcadia and widely noted as a surviving regional dialect of Doric Greek.

* Grandoyne, fighter on Marsile ’ s side ; son of the Cappadocian King Capuel ; kills Gerin, Gerier, Berenger, Guy St. Antoine, and Duke Astorge ; killed by Roland.

* Central Cappadocian ( Axo ; Misthi ) ( See Misthiotica )

* Southwestern Cappadocian ( Aravan, Gurzono ; Fertek )

* Nikephoros II Phocas ( Νικηφόρος Β ') ( 912 – 969, ruled 963 – 969 ) – successful general, married Romanos II's widow, regent for Basil ; assassinated ( Origin: Cappadocian )

At this time, Mithridates VI had plans of his own ; to force Gordius back into the Cappadocian court in expelling his nephews from the throne in order to rule Cappadocia for himself which in the end failed.

Ariarathes I (, Ariaráthēs ; ruled 331 BC or 330 BC – killed 322 BC ), the son of the Cappadocian satrap Ariamnes I, was distinguished (, Philádelphos ) for his love of his brother Holophernes, whom he sent to assist his overlord king Artaxerxes III in the recovery of Egypt, 350 BC.