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.
501–600
4 works
547–548
Latin
Facundus of Hermiane · 6th century
Twelve books arguing that condemning long-dead theologians to appease the Miaphysites betrays Chalcedon, addressed to the emperor who was doing it.
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.
553
Greek
The Second Council of Constantinople
Fourteen anathemas condemning the Three Chapters and clarifying Chalcedon in Cyrilline terms, with Origenism condemned in the same period.
c. 566–570
Latin
Victor of Tunnuna · d. c. 570
An African bishop's year-by-year record, written across a decade of imprisonment and exile for refusing to condemn the Three Chapters, and ending at the year he ran out of freedom to write.
4 of 1774 works