Ī polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music, he was given the by-name of Chrysorroas (Χρυσορρόας, literally "streaming with gold", i.e. 675 or 676 the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem on 4 December 749. John of Damascus ( Arabic: يوحنا الدمشقي, romanized: Yūḥanna ad-Dimashqī Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Δαμασκηνός, romanized: Ioánnēs ho Damaskēnós, IPA: Latin: Ioannes Damascenus born Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, منصور إبن سرجون) or John Damascene was a Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist. Virtually all of subsequent Eastern and Western Christian philosophy, Second Council of Nicaea, Catholic theology, Scholasticism and Hesychasm
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