== Theological Position ==

Though his theology was at first somewhat indefinite in phraseology, he undoubtedly gave a

he expresses its sense in many passages, which exclude equally [[Patripassianism]], [[Sabellianism]], and the Arian formula "There was a time when the Son was not." In other points he takes the ordinary ground of the Eastern Fathers, as in the emphasis he lays on the freedom of the will, the ''autexousion'', and his imperfect realization of the factor so much more strongly brought out in the West -- sin. To him sin is the consequence of freedom, not a natural condition. The body is not the cause, but the instrument of sin. The remedy for it is repentance, on which he insists. Like many of the Eastern Fathers, he has an essentially moralistic conception of Christianity. His doctrine of the [[Resurrection]] is not quite so realistic as that of other

Fathers; but his [[ecclesiology|conception of the Church]] is decidedly empirical -- the existing catholic Church form is the true one, intended by Christ, the completion of the Church of the [[Old Testament]]. His doctrine on the [[Eucharist]] is noteworthy. If he sometimes seems to approach the symbolical view, at other times he comes very close to a strong realistic doctrine. The bread and wine are not mere elements, but the body and blood of [[Christ]].

== Catechetical Lectures ==