This volume brings together articles on the diverse aspects of Apollinaris' person and his disciples. The contributors seek out the identity of Apollinaris as it was from the outset, and not that of the heretic he became in the 70s.

On the one hand, Apollinaris was a highly-respected theologian and bishop, a poetically talented writer of hymns and highly-educated contemporary of Basil of Caesarea and Nicene. On the other hand, however, he was the originator of the most influential heresy of antiqity, which was banned in imperial edicts from 383 but whose supporters were allowed to re-enter the Great Church in 428. This volume brings together articles on the diverse aspects of Apollinaris' person and his disciples. The contributors seek out the identity of Apollinaris as it was from the outset, and not that of the heretic he became in the 70s. A look at the image of Apollinaris which emerges from Byzantine sources completes the volume's survey.

Inhalt
I. Der frühe Appolinarius: Nachrichten aus der Zeit um und vor 360
Susanna Elm: Apollinarius of Laodicea and Gregory of Nazianzus: The Early Years - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl: The Circumstances of Apollinarius's Election in Laodicea - Volker Henning Drecoll: Apollinarius, Ad Iovianum : Analyse und Bedeutung für die Apollinariuschronologie - Markus Vinzent: Pseudo-Athanasius, Oratio contra Arianos IV : Apollinarius' Earliest Extant Work

II. Zur Theologie des Apollinarius
Hanns Christof Brennecke: "Apollinaristischer Arianismus" oder "arianischer Apollinarismus": ein dogmengeschichtliches Konstrukt? - Johannes Zachhuber: Derivative Genera in Apollinarius of Laodicea: Some Remarks on the Philosophical Coherence of his Thought - Benjamin Gleede: : Der Sprachgebrauch der Schrift als Wurzel apollinarischer Christologie - Ekkehard Mühlenberg: Theologie und Frömmigkeit bei den Apollinaristen

III. Fragmente des Apollinarius und Schriften seiner Gegner in ihren Überlieferungskontexten
Uta Heil: Athanasius, Apollinarius und der pseudathanasianische Sermo contra omnes haereses - Alessandro Capone: Pseudo-Athanasius: De incarnatione contra Apollinarium : Einleitende Bemerkungen zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung - Martin Heimgartner: Neue Fragmente Diodors von Tarsus aus den Schriften "Gegen Apollinarius", "Gegen die Manichäer" und "Über den heiligen Geist" - Karin Metzler: Segen für die Stämme Israels. Neue Testimonien für die Auslegung des Apollinarius von Gen 49 und Dtn 33 (aus CPG 3680)

IV. Apollinarius in der Wahrnehmung der späteren Jahrhunderte
Silke-Petra Bergjan: Theodoret von Cyrus, Apollinarius und die Apollinaristen in Antiochien - Theresia Hainthaler: Die apollinaristischen Fälschungen und die christologischen Debatten des 5. und 6. Jahrhunderts. Einige Beobachtungen - Patrick Andrist: The Two Faces of Apollinarius: A Glimpse into the Complex Reception of an Uncommon Heretic in Byzantium