Early Latin Theology: Selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome

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Stanley Lawrence Greenslade
Westminster John Knox Press, 1. jaan 1956 - 415 pages

This collection of representative works in early Latin theology includes works by Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome.

Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries.

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Contents

Preface
15
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
21
LETTER 14
35
ON IDOLATRY
78
LETTER 15
96
CYPRIAN
100
LETTER 52
105
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
113
THE PROBLEM OF THE LAPSED
143
LETTER
146
THE BATTLE OF
199
Letter 21
296
Letter 20
305
THE SYNAGOGUE
330
Letter 40
349
THE MASSACRE AT THESSA
413

THE UNITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
119

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S. L. Greenslade was a Canon of Christ Church, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford, and Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham.

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