Philostorgius (Greek: Φιλοστοργιος; 368 - ca. 439) was a so-called Anomoean Church historian of the 4th and 5th centuries. (Anomoeanism questioned the Trinitarian account of the relationship between God the Father and Christ and was considered a heresy by trinitarian Christians.) Very little information about his life is available; he was born in Borissus, Cappadocia to Eulampia and Carterius,[1] and later lived in Constantinople.
He wrote a history of the Arian controversy titled History of the Church, of which only an epitome by Photius survives, as well as a treatise against Porphyry, which is lost.[2]
References
^ Philostorgius, in Photius, Epitome of the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius, book 9, chapter 9.
^ Philostorgius, in Photius, Epitome of the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius, book 10, chapter 10.
Bibliography
Philostorgius Church History, editor and translator Philip R. Amidon, S.J. (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007).
Филосторгий. Сокращение „Церковной истории”. – В: Церковные историки ІV-V веков. М, 2007 (Класики античности и средневековья).
