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Selected Proceedings and the Fourteen Canons
from Part I - The Council of Chalcedon and Its Reception
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2022
Emperor Justinian convened the second Council of Constantinople in 553 for the sole purpose of condemning the so-called Three Chapters – the person and writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia (d. 428), certain writings of Theodoret of Cyrrhus (d. ca. 466), and the Letter to Mari the Persian attributed to Ibas of Edessa (d. 457). Why was it deemed expedient to condemn these figures and their writings a century after their deaths? The reasons are complicated and remain debated by scholars. Justinian was at least partially motivated by fostering a reconciliation of anti-Chalcedonians with the imperial, Chalcedonian church. The condemnation of the Three Chapters by a joint council of Eastern and Western bishops was probably intended to demonstrate to anti-Chalcedonians that the charge of “Nestorianism” they leveled against the imperial church was groundless.
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