Julian of Halicarnassus

{{Short description|6th cent. Christian theologian, aphthartodocetist}}

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Julian, bishop of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ίουλιανός Άλικαρνασσού, d. after 527), also known as Julian the Phantastiast,{{Cite web |title=Zachariah of Mitylene, Syriac Chronicle (1899). Book 9. |url=https://tertullian.org/fathers/zachariah09.html |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=tertullian.org}} was an anti-Chalcedonian theologian who contested with Severus of AntiochCyril Hovorun, Will, Action and Freedom: Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century (Leiden, Brill, 2008, {{ISBN|978-90-04-16666-0}}). Page 28: "Julian of Halicarnassus. One such question was raised by Julian, bishop of Halicarnassus (d. after 527). Like Severus, Julian believed in the single dominating divine energeia of Christ. He developed the initial Severan concept of the single energeia and single property into an original teaching about Christ's uncorrupt body." over the phtharos of Christ.{{Cite web |title=Julian of Halicarnasus |url=https://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc06/htm/iii.lix.x.htm |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=www.ccel.org}} His followers were known as the Aphthartodocetae.John Meyendorff, Byzantine Theology: historical trends & doctrinal themes, page 157 (Fordham University Press, 1979). {{ISBN|0-8232-0967-9}} He lived in exile for a time in the monastery of the Enaton in Egypt.{{citation |author=Andreas Juckel |title=The Enaton |encyclopedia=Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition |editor1=Sebastian P. Brock |editor-link=Sebastian P. Brock |editor2=Aaron M. Butts |editor3=George A. Kiraz |editor3-link=George A. Kiraz |editor4=Lucas Van Rompay |url=https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/The-Enaton |publisher=Gorgias Press |year=2011 |access-date=23 October 2019}}.

Julian believed "that the body of Christ, from the very moment of his conception, was incorruptible, immortal and impassible, as it was after the resurrection, and held that the suffering and death on the cross was a miracle contrary to the normal conditions of Christ's humanity",Mary Clayton, The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England, page 43 (Cambridge University Press, 2004). {{ISBN|0-521-58168-0}} known as aphthartodocetism.Susan R. Holman (editor), Wealth and Poverty In Early Church and Society, page 109 (Baker Academic, 2008). {{ISBN|978-0-8010-3549-4}}