• Abbreviations


• I: Sophronius and his Synodical Letter


• I: After Chalcedon: An Overview


• II: Sophist, Monk, Patriarch


• III: The Context of the Synodical Letter


• IV: Content and Style of the Synodical Letter


• V: Genre and Function of the Synodical Letter


• VI: The Text and its Transmission


• Texts and Translations


• II: The Synodical Letter


• III: A Monoenergist Dossier


• 1: Cyrus, First Letter to Sergius


• 2: Sergius, First Letter to Cyrus


• 3: Cyrus, Announcement, Pact of Union, or Nine Articles of Faith


• 4: Cyrus, Second Letter to Sergius


• 5: Sergius, Second Letter to Cyrus


• 6: Sergius, First Letter to Honorius


• 7: Honorius, First Letter to Sergius


• 8: Honorius, Second Letter to Sergius


• 9: Ekthesis


• Bibliography


• Indexes


• Biblical Quotations and Allusions


• People and Things


• Modern Authors

Sophronius' Synodical Letter was was read out at the Sixth Ecumenical Council in 680-1, and provided the only sustained rebuttal of the monoenergist doctrine. This is the first publication of the letter in annotated translation alongside the original Greek. Includes a comprehensive introduction and further documents on the monoenergist doctrine.