{"id":73,"date":"2016-09-06T03:21:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T03:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/?p=73"},"modified":"2016-09-06T03:21:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T03:21:10","slug":"sabellius-north-african-heresiarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/uncategorized\/sabellius-north-african-heresiarch\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabellius, North African &#8216;Heresiarch&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first mention of a person of African descent I noticed came in the form of Sabellius, dubbed \u201cheresiarch\u201d (ln. 659) in Stephen\u2019s summary of heretical beliefs. Sabellius was a third century North African Libyan Catholic who rejected the idea of the Holy Trinity. He identified and accepted the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as parts of one larger being, not separate beings, \u201cillustrat[ing] the trinitarian relation by comparing the Father to the disc of the sun, the Son to its enlightening power, the Spirit to its warming influence\u201d (CCEL) As Stephen puts it, Sabellius \u201cheld that the Father Himself was His own Son\u201d (ln. 660). In his book <em>Ulysses and the Irish God, <\/em>Frederick Lang equates this Sabellian heresy to the Catholic idea of transubstantiation. First, he cites a definition of transubstantiation as \u201cthe Great God of Heaven comes down upon the altar and take the form of bread and wine\u201d(Lang 80), which in Sabellius\u2019s opinion would be the Father Himself becoming His own Son.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen\u2019s description of Sabellius\u2019s heresy is interesting to me in how similar it sounds to Stephen\u2019s description of Hamlet. Buck Mulligan explains that within his paradoxical explanation of Hamlet, \u201che proves by algebra that Hamlet\u2019s grandson is Shakespeare\u2019s grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own father.\u201d Sabellius claimed that the Father is the Son, and Stephen says of Hamlet that the son himself is the father\u2019s ghost. Yet despite this slight parallel, Stephen expresses distaste of Sabellius\u2019s heretical belief. I think there\u2019s something interesting to discuss there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CCEL, &#8220;History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 100-325.&#8221; <i>&#8211; Christian Classics Ethereal Library<\/i>. N.p., n.d.<\/p>\n<p>Lang, Frederick K. <i>Ulysses and the Irish God<\/i>. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1993. Print.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first mention of a person of African descent I noticed came in the form of Sabellius, dubbed \u201cheresiarch\u201d (ln. 659) in Stephen\u2019s summary of heretical beliefs. Sabellius was a third century North African Libyan Catholic who rejected the idea of the Holy Trinity. He identified and accepted the Father, the Son, and the Holy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}