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John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, [a] was an Arab Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist.He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem, on 4 December AD 749.
John of Damascus [ edit ] In the Roman Catholic Church , St. John of Damascus , who lived in the 8th century, is generally considered to be the last of the Church Fathers and at the same time the first seed of the next period of church writers, scholasticism .
John of Damascus (c. 676 – 749) was a Syrian Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist. Born and raised in Damascus , he died at his monastery, Mar Saba , near Jerusalem. A polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music, he was given the by-name of Chrysorrhoas (Χρυσορρόας ...
John of Damascus an Arab monk and presbyter, 7th-century (Greek icon) In Jordan, Christians constitute 6% of the population as of 2017 according to the Jordanian government. [110] [111] This percentage represents a sharp decrease from a figure of 18% in the early 20th century. This drop is largely due to an influx of Muslim Arabs from the Hijaz ...
[17] [18] In the 8th century John of Damascus, a Syrian monk, Christian theologian, and apologist that lived under the Umayyad Caliphate, reported in his heresiological treatise De Haeresibus ("Concerning Heresy") the Islamic denial of Jesus' crucifixion and his alleged substitution on the cross, attributing the origin of these doctrines to ...
In 746, John of Damascus (sometimes St. John of Damascus) wrote the Fount of Knowledge part two of which is entitled Heresies in Epitome: How They Began and Whence They Drew Their Origin. [47] In this work, John makes extensive reference to the Quran and, in John's opinion, its failure to live up to even the most basic scrutiny.
John the Merciful (died c. 610), Cyprian Patriarch of Alexandria; John I Agnus ('the Lamb', 7th century), 25th bishop of Tongres; John III of the Sedre (died 648), Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch; John of Damascus (676–749), Syrian monk and priest, also known as John Damascene; John of Beverley (died 721), Angle bishop
In the 8th century, John of Damascus listed eighteen attributes which remain widely accepted. [22] As time passed, Christian theologians developed systematic lists of these attributes, some based on statements in the Bible (e.g., the Lord's Prayer, stating that the Father is in Heaven), others based on theological reasoning.