After the failure of the attempt to restore unity to the church in the Second Council of Constantinople - the fifth ecumenical council - which occurred after the Council of Chalcedon - the fourth ecumenical council - when the followers of monophysitism rejected the correct faith and made Christ have one nature, a new extremism began to appear in the year 557 to try to reconcile this faith - monophysitism - and John of Scosnag was one of those who tried to reconcile the nature of Christ with the nature of God by saying that each of the three hypostases has a special nature. Damian, the Patriarch of the monophysitists in Alexandria, went further and said that the gods were quadrupled, considering a special existence for each of the three hypostases and a general fourth existence for the three together.