Anthony Of Tagrit

Anthony Of Tagrit (flourished 9th century) was a Syrian Orthodox theologian and writer, a principal contributor to the development of Syriac literature and poetry. Originally from Tagrit, near Latakia, Syria, Anthony belonged to the part of the Eastern Syriac Church called the Jacobites, which had separated from the authority of the Eastern Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople in the 6th century. Anthony sympathized with the monophysite view of Christological doctrine (see monophysite). Known also as “The...