Joseph Lebon (

Tamines Tamines ( wa, Tamene) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Sambreville, located in the province of Namur, Belgium. During the Middle Ages, there was a seat of an alderman in the village, which had strong connections to t ...

, 1879–1957) was a Belgian priest and professor of theology at the University of Louvain.Patrimoine Littéraire Européen: Anthologie en Langue Française: Volume 13 - Page 451 Jean-Claude Polet - 2000 "Lebon (Joseph) 1879-1957 Né à Tamines, en Belgique, Joseph Lebon fut ordonné prêtre en 1903. Etudiant à l'université de Louvain, il devient en 1909 docteur et maître en théologie, avec une dissertation sur « Le monophysisme sévérien." He is best known for his immense work devoted to the reception of the

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in the

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and

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n domains. His 1909 thesis devoted to

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resistance to the Chalcedonian definition or horos centred on the writings of

Severus of Antioch Severus the Great of Antioch (Greek: Σεβῆρος; syr, ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܕܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ), also known as Severus of Gaza or Crown of Syrians (Syriac: ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܥܝܐ; Tagha d'Suryoye; Arabic: تاج السوريين; Taj al-Suriyyun ...

and the influence of

Cyril of Alexandria Cyril of Alexandria ( grc, Κύριλλος Ἀλεξανδρείας; cop, Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ Ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲩ ⲁ̅ also ⲡⲓ̀ⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲕⲓⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲥ; 376 – 444) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444 ...

. Editions of the surviving Syriac translations of Severus in the

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and ground-breaking articles in

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followed at regular intervals. The climax of Lebon's work in this area consisted in a contribution to the commemorative volumes for the fifteen hundredth anniversary of the Council (Das Konzil von Chalkedon I-III, eds. Alois Grillmeier, Heinrich Bacht, Wuerzburg 1951-1954). He also edited an early

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volume of

Athanasius Athanasius I of Alexandria, ; cop, ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲑⲁⲛⲁⲥⲓⲟⲩ ⲡⲓⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲓⲕⲟⲥ or Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲑⲁⲛⲁⲥⲓⲟⲩ ⲁ̅; (c. 296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, ...

' Letter to Serapion.

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