17Mercator anathematizes the creed he ascribes to Theodore, arguing from Scripture and from the union of soul and body that Christ is one Son and one person, the Word made flesh, not a man joined to the Word by grace.
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. No tradition names him a saint, but he wrote in defence of the church's teaching and was never rejected by the church of his time or later.
Date
after 431 (ca. 431-450) (approximate) · Written with the translation of Theodore's creed (unit 16) after the Council of Ephesus (431); a more exact date is not known.
Written at
Constantinople, Thrace (approximate)
Language
Latin
Genre
treatise
Reference system
Single unit 17 of Schwartz's numbering in ACO I.5, pp. 25-28 (the printed text answers, clause by clause, the creed that Mercator translated as unit 16).
SBL abbreviation
Refut. symb. Theod.Not yet checked
Text from
Eduard Schwartz, ed., Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum, vol. 1.5, Collectio Palatina (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1924-1926), pp. 25-28 (Printed edition (Schwartz, 1924-1926) in the public domain in the United States)
Critical editions
Eduard Schwartz, ed., Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum 1.5 (1924-1926); Migne, PL 48 (Garnier's edition) (cited, not reproduced)