Theodoret on the “School of Antioch”: A Network Approach / Adam M. Schor
Theodoret on the “School of Antioch”: A Network Approach Adam M. Schor Abstract The School of Antioch has more often been treated as a doctrinal abstraction than a social entity. This study reinterprets the Antiochene phenomenon as a socio-doctrinal network, a group of clerics bound by a call and response of doctrinal language. Conciliar documents and the letters of Theodoret of Cyrrhus showcase this network in operation in the 430s and 440s. For earlier, formative decades, the network must be approached indirectly through historical narrative. In his Church History...
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