ABSTRACT
Due to the late, but partial, condemnation of Theodoret in 553, a considerable number of his literary productions have come down to us. Thus, in the course of selecting the texts for this volume I have tried to serve a variety of purposes. First, I wanted to represent Theodoret’s oeuvre faithfully in a chronological sense, thus I have included complete works or selections, both from those written in his youth and during the Nestorian and Eutychian controversies, as well as those written in his last years, after Chalcedon. Further, there was the need to give at least an impression of the remarkable spectrum of genres which constitute his legacy, since our author composed apologetical, exegetical, dogmatic, polemical, historical, and heresiological works as well as sermons, whilst his correspondence (from which I frequently quoted in Part I) is an important source for those interested in the ecclesiastical life and teaching of the fifth century.
