#Paul of Samosata

This article examines the origins and nature of the Antiochian School of Theology, focusing on the life and works of Saint Lucian of Antioch (c. 240–312), who is regarded as its founder. It analyses his ‘Review of Holy Scripture’, his relationship with the Arian heresy and with Paul of Samosata, as well as the historiographical controversy – from Adolf Harnack to Gustav Bardy and Panayiotis Christou – concerning the authenticity of his theological legacy and his ecclesiastical canonisation.

This article analyses the relationship between dogma and ethos in the tradition of the Orthodox Church, examining how secularisation – from Paul of Samosata and the schism of Novatus right up to the modern era – gives rise to two opposing distortions of this correlation: fundamentalism and liberalism. The reader comes to understand that both extremes share a common root in secularism and represent deviations from the authentic synthesis of dogma and ethos, as illustrated by Scripture, the Holy Fathers and hymnography.