The Capitokians and Their Thought

The Capitokian Fathers is where we first see orthodox mysticism laid out in a kind of intellectual context. The idea of doing things silently, of not this closing the core of Christian commitment to those who are our adversaries is very deeply ingrained. And that is also found in carapodosian thought because when they entered into this intellectual contest with the second generation of the Aryan theologians,. Like the Normus, Aesius, IETs, have immediately encountered the idea that God has its essence and that essence is made manifest in God's names.