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Narses

Syrian theologian
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  • patristic literature
    / The schools of Edessa and Nisibis

    Another eminent Edessene writer was Narses (died c. 503), who became one of the formative theologians of the Assyrian Church of the East (the so-called Nestorian Church). He was the author of extensive commentaries, now lost, and of metrical homilies, dialogue songs, and liturgical hymns. In 447, when a miaphysite…

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    Another eminent Edessene writer was Narses (died c. 503), who became one of the formative theologians of the Assyrian Church of the East (the so-called Nestorian Church). He was the author of extensive commentaries, now lost, and of metrical homilies, dialogue songs, and liturgical hymns. In 447, when a miaphysite…

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