Eunomius of Cyzicus

When did Eunomius live?

Eunomius of Cyzicus is dated c. 335 – c. 393 in the archive, which places Eunomius in the Nicene Age (AD 313–400). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.

What did Eunomius write?

Eunomius of Cyzicus has 1 catalogued writing in the archive: The Apology (with the Confession of 383).

Which early sources mention Eunomius?

Eunomius of Cyzicus is named in 4 primary-source passages catalogued here, drawn from Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Philostorgius and Socrates Scholasticus. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Eunomius from?

The archive associates Eunomius of Cyzicus with Cappadocia, Cyzicus. The sources record more than one location, so the places are listed in the order the record moves through them.

The name 'Ingenerate' is not honorific but the very essence.

Earliest witness · Preserved with and inside the Cappadocian rebuttals (10th c. onward (medieval Greek copies))

He says that he knows God’s very essence, and knows it as well as he knows himself. But what arrogance, to claim to have compassed by a word the nature which passes all understanding!

[Gregory answers Eunomius’s Apology for the Apology point by point, quoting it as he goes — much of what survives of Eunomius is in these books.]

Gregory of Nyssa's Contra Eunomium, written c. AD 380–383 against Eunomius of Cyzicus and addressed in its preface to his brother Peter of Sebaste. Greek: Werner Jaeger, Gregorii Nysseni Opera 1–2 (1960). English translation by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd series, vol. 5 (1893), public domain.