John of Scythopolis
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Who is John of Scythopolis?
John Scythopolita, also known as "the Scholasticus", bishop of Scythopolis in Palestine, where Beit She'an is today, was a Byzantine theologian and lawyer adhering to neo-Chalcedonian theology. He's famous for several works against Monophysite heresy: his major one's a treatise written ca. 530, defending the theory of "dioenergism", against his contemporary Severus of Antioch. Another work attacked the heretic Eutyches, one of the founders of Monophysitism. We have some data about him by Photius, learned bishop of Byzantium.
Hans Urs von Balthasar suggested than John was the author of much of Maximus the Confessor's scholia.
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