Theodore Of Rhaithu

Theodore Of Rhaithu (flourished 7th century) was a theologian-monk of a monastery at Rhaithu, a port on the Sinai Peninsula, considered the last of the Neo-Chalcedonian authors. His writings sought an orthodox formulation of doctrine on the nature of Christ. He thereby proposed to integrate the authoritative expression of Christ’s coexisting human and divine essences as decreed by the Council of Chalcedon (451) with the widespread mystical variants popular among the Eastern monks and other...