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The Church Fathers · 512–538

The Letters and Cathedral Homilies

Severus of Antioch · c. 465–538

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What it is

The correspondence and preaching of the greatest Miaphysite theologian, surviving almost entirely in Syriac translation after the Greek was destroyed.

Why it lasted

The theological foundation of the Syriac and Coptic Orthodox churches, and the fullest statement of a christology that rejects Chalcedon without being Eutychian.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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