John
Damascene, St.
Personal
Financial officer to Saracen caliph
Resigned in 700
Entered a monastery and
ordained a priest
Opposed the Iconoclasts
Place and dates
(Damascus,
Syria) 675-749
Writings
Source
of Knowledge: three part text
of dogmatic theology in the early Greek
church; contains a complete theological
system based on the early Greek fathers
and synods of 4th-7th centuries