The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
301–400
1 work
359
Latin
De Synodis
Hilary of Poitiers · c. 310 – c. 367
Written in exile to the bishops of Gaul, setting out every Eastern creed of the previous thirty years in turn and asking, of each, whether it can be read in an orthodox sense. He is unusually willing to grant that men who reject his vocabulary may hold his faith.
501–600
4 works
c. 500–526
Latin
Dionysius Exiguus · c. 470–c. 544
Greek conciliar canons translated into Latin and gathered with the decretals of the popes into a single ordered collection.
c. 550, before his patriarchate
Greek
John Scholasticus · d. 577
The canons of the councils and the fathers rearranged out of chronological order and under fifty subject headings, so that a bishop with a question could look it up instead of reading everything.
14 May 553
Latin
Vigilius · d. 555
A pope, held in Constantinople and pressed by Justinian to condemn three long-dead theologians, issues a ruling that condemns sixty propositions of Theodore of Mopsuestia while refusing to condemn the men, since they died in the church's peace. The council ignored it and anathematised him instead.
c. 593–594
Greek
Evagrius Scholasticus · c. 536–c. 594
A history from Ephesus in 431 to 594, covering the christological councils, the Persian wars, and an eyewitness account of the plague.
601–700
1 work
634
Latin
Honorius I · d. 638
Rome's reply to Sergius, agreeing that the question should be dropped and adding the sentence that would cost him: we confess one will of our Lord Jesus Christ. He appears to have meant that Christ had no divided will, not that he had only one.
901–1000
1 work
c. 970–987
Arabic
Severus ibn al-Muqaffa · d. c. 987
An account of the church councils from a Coptic standpoint, explaining to an Arabic-speaking congregation why their church rejected Chalcedon.
7 of 1774 works