Johannes Damascenus

[dam-uh-see-nuhs]

noun

1. John of Damascus.

Example Sentences

To this era belong the names of Alfonso the Wise, King of Castile; of Isaac Beimiram, the son of Solomon the physician; of Hali Abbas, the scholar of Abimeher Moyses, the son of Sejar; of Aben Sina, better known as Avicenna, and sometimes called Abohali; of Averroes of Cordova, surnamed the Commentator; of Rasis, who is also called Almanzor and Albumasar; and of John of Damascus, whose name has been latinized into Johannes Damascenus.

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The work was afterwards attributed to Johannes Damascenus, who died in 760.

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Apart from these points and a few others of less consequence, the work, in its formulæ, exhibits a type which remained pretty constant in the West down to the time of Augustine, or, till the adoption of Johannes Damascenus' dogmatic.

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John, exarch of Bulgaria, who lived in the same century, translated the books of Johannes Damascenus into Slavic.

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“Johannes Damascenus” is added after St. Augustin in both.

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