Venerable Anastasios of Sinai on Islam[1]
Priest George Maksimov
Priest George Maksimov
From the Life
Little is known about the life of the Venerable Anastasios. He was born in Alexandria, according to other information on Cyprus, around 640. The Venerable Anastasios was abbot of Mount Sinai. From there he more than once traveled through Syria, Arabia, and into Egypt, with polemical and missionary purposes. He was a prominent theologian and exegete, an active opponent of the Monophysites and Monothelites; his contemporaries called him “a new Moses.” He died after 700.
Works
The principal work of the Venerable Anastasios is the “Guide” (Hodegos). It is composed of separate chapters and letters in which Anastasios examines general and particular objections of the Monophysites of various tendencies, on the basis of Scripture and according to the testimony of the ancient Fathers. Of the same character is also the book “Questions and Answers.”
