208 Cyrillic
After these irregular proceedings, Nestorius resigned vol-
untarily. Under government pressure in 433, however,
Cyril, restored to office, made concessions, reconciling
with the more moderate of Nestorius’s allies through a For-
mulary of Reunionin 433. Cyril’s other writings included
letters, exegetical books, apologetic treatises, and commen-
taries on books of the BIBLE. He died on June 27, 444.
See alsoCHALCEDON,COUNCIL OF;CHRISTOLOGY AND
CHRISTOLOGICAL CONTROVERSY; MONOPHYSITISM.
Further reading:Cyril of Alexandria, Cyril of Alexan-
dria: Select Letters,ed. and trans. Lionel R. Wickham
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983); Alois Grillmeier, Christ
in Christian Tradition: From the Apostolic Age to Chalcedon
(451), trans. J. S. Bowden (London: Mowbray, 1965),
329–452); R. L. Wilken, Judaism and the Early Christian
Mind: A Study of Cyril of Alexandria’s Exegesis and Theol-
ogy(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1971).Cyrillic Cyrillic is the name of the alphabet invented
by Saint CYRIL, the “Apostle of the Slavs,” and based on
the adaptation of Greek symbols to Slavonic phonetics.
Cyrillic was used in the liturgical writings of the Slavonic
peoples of the Orthodox Church. The modern Slav
alphabet is derived from it.
See alsoGLAGOLITIC ALPHABET AND RITE.
Further reading: Sharon Golke Fullerton, Paleo-
graphic Methods Used in Dating Cyrillic and Glagolitic
Slavic Manuscripts (Columbus: Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University, 1975).