I will not be me who accuses Cyril of Alexandria in the horrible death Hypatia: Amenábar has already done in his film, playing, for once, quite accurately, the main documentary sources we maintain. I will just provide some insights to help shape the profile a character who, although he owns a place in the pantheon, as a shepherd of the sheep holy Christian ... also take a second home in hell, you bastard between bastards, because it was a nightmare for many, some of which , to make matters worse, they were as Christians like him.
To begin, I want to show the stark contrast between this "holy father"-and considered by the Catholic, Orthodox and Coptic, and a contemporary who already is familiar: Synesius. Both were born more or less the same date, 370, and both exerted "supervisors"-that literally means episcopos, Bishop - the one in Alexandria and one in the Ptolemais. But here the similarities end, because while Sinesio was, as we know, because he, in his letter 105, was responsible for what we knew well that a bishop-married father of three children, Cyril was unmarried and without children-we know- although this was not an obstacle to become "father" of the Church ...
Sinesio is a student of Hypatia, and it is true, as we have seen (chart 124), beyond death ... while Cyril not only attend classes Hypatia, to which, as we know, many Christians attend worship and powerful, but on the facts, it seems that he hated to death ...
While Sinesio rejects in principle the position of Bishop, however, offered by acclamation, "Cyril happens to Theophilus in Alexandria in a somewhat dubious and conflicting: according to Socrates Scholastic, caused a riot in Alexandria all, since it took power against the wishes of many, who prefer the Archdeacon Timothy. In accepting the position, Sinesio-letter makes it clear 105 - that's not going to give up his philosophical ideas platonic, but contradict the orthodoxy, on the contrary, Cyril relentless exercise-even in a rage champion of orthodoxy and heresy hammer-see, if you have time and mood, the 10 volumes that takes its work in Greek Patrologia of Migne (68 to 77), much of which is dedicated to combating the heresy of Nestorius.
fact, one of the heterodox views of Synesius had been that of a female Holy Spirit: Expiration Santa -literal translation of Hagia Pnoía - which he calls "mother" and "that gave birth to the hidden root" (Hymn 2), perhaps echoing the Gnostic stream was trying to relocate the ancestral Mother Goddess in a cemetery, now deserted and patriarchal, which had been cleared.
Very different was the efforts of Cyril to impose a strange concept that safeguards gynecological consubstantiality the Father and the Son, namely: Mary, if I had a little mystery to be Virgin , was also s Theotokos, Mother God. Which, on the one hand, does not mean that the origin of God because God is before she and the other, has nothing to do with the Mother Goddess. Very clear ... no?
Anyway, the idea won and served to crush Nestorius at the Council of Ephesus in 431. It is worth pausing to take a look at that ... so little conciliatory council - what has been one? - Has been called ecumenical -lit. "For everyone inhabited "- when the truth is that a meeting was quite provincial, and mono rigged. Gregory Nazianzen in 382 said " that no council has been successful or to remedy the evils, on the contrary, that the increases." The quotation is from José María Blázquez Martínez, professor emeritus of Ancient History at the Complutense University and scholar of the Royal Academy of History. Hand in hand with such prestigious scholarly authority, we will close the profile of Cyril of Alexandria. Perhaps responsible for the horrible murder of Hypatia, persecuting pagans, Jews and heterodox Christians, to get the appointment as Patriarch of Alexandria,
"the first step taken by Cyril was close Novatians churches, and seize all that kept the sacred objects, and took the bishop Novatian Theopompus everything he owned. Profit motive had to close the churches of opposites, not based on faith, ie greed " [1] .
But not the whole thing
"Bribes Patriarch of Alexandria, Cyril (370/444), is the case known more blatant and cynical bribes. Came to buy, not only to the imperial court of Constantinople, until the emperor himself (...)
Actually, what happened at the time of the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon (451) was a fierce power struggle between the churches of Alexandria and Constantinople, as you well said Gregory Nazianzen in the text above. It struggled in the Councils for power. By excessive ambition, Theophilus of Alexandria and his nephew Cyril, fought hard for John Chrysostom and Nestorius were deposed from the headquarters of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and succeeded by bribing the emperors and the court. With bribes was purchased from the emperors, which were the highest authority within the church, whose decision was final " [2] .
With Saints well ... what the hell we want ...
[1] BLÁZQUEZ, JM, " Christian Religious violence in Ecclesiastical History of Socrates during the government of Theodosius II and the Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret of Cirrus' ; in Gerión 2008, 26, No. 1 453-490
[2] BLAZQUEZ, JM, "Bribery in the Ancient Church" ; in: G. Bravo - R. González Salinero (eds.), corruption in the Roman world , Madrid, Signifer, 2008, 249-263
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