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, 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.

References

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).

External links

• Epitome of the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius from The Tertullian Project