HIPPOLYTUS OF PORTUS
Hippolytus - The Refutation of All Heresies - Book I Hippolytus - Notes on the Refutation of All Heresies - Book II and III Hippolytus - The Refutation of All Heresies - Book IV Hippolytus - The Refutation of All Heresies - Book V Hippolytus - The Refutation of All Heresies - Book VI Hippolytus - The Refutation of All Heresies - Book VII Hippolytus - The Refutation of All Heresies - Book VIII Hippolytus - The Refutation of All Heresies - Book IX Hippolytus - The Refutation of All Heresies - Book X Hippolytus - Fragments Part I Hippolytus - Fragments Part II
HIPPOLYTUS OF PORTUS
Hippolytus of Portus (c. AD 170-235) was a writer of the early Christian Church. He was elected as the first Antipope in 217, but died reconciled to the Church in 235 as a martyr. Hippolytus was born in the second half of the 2nd century, probably in Rome. Photius describes him in his Bibliotheca as a disciple of Irenaeus. As a presbyter of the church at Rome under Bishop Zephyrinus (AD 199-217), Hippolytus was distinguished for his learning and eloquence. It was at this time that Origen, then a young man, heard him preach.
It was not long after this that questions of theology and church discipline brought him into direct conflict with Zephyrinus and his successor Calixtus I. Hippolytus accused the bishops of favoring the Christological heresies of the Monarchians, and, further, of subverting the discipline of the Church by their lax action in receiving back into the Church those guilty of gross offenses. The result was a schism, and for over ten years Hippolytus stood as bishop at the head of a separate church. Then came the persecution under Maximinus Thrax. Hippolytus and Pontian, who was then Bishop of Rome, were transported in 235 to Sardinia, where it would seem that both of them died.
Hippolytus's voluminous writings, which for their variety subject can be compared with those of Origen, embrace the spheres of exegesis, homiletics, apologetics and polemic, chronography, and ecclesiastical law. His works have come down to us in such a fragmentary condition that it is difficult to obtain from them any very exact notion of his intellectual and literary importance.
Of his exegetical works the best preserved are the Commentary on the Prophet Daniel and the Commentary on the Song of Songs. He wrote polemical works directed against the pagans, the Jews and heretics. The most important of these polemical treatises is the Refutation of all Heresies. Of its ten books, the second and third are lost; Book I was for a long time printed among the works of Origen; Books IV-X were found in 1842 without the name of the author, in an Armenian convent at Mount Athos. It is now universally thought that Hippolytus was the author, and that Books I and IV-X belong to the same work.
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