Letters of 'St. Ambrose'

Letters of 'St. Ambrose'
Author: Apostle Horn
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2019-11-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0244839972
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St. Ambrose of Milan.St. Ambrose (ca. A.D. 339-397) was born to a Roman noble family, becoming a provincial governor by the age of thirty. He was elected bishop of Milan after successfully calming clashes between Milan's Nicene and Arian communities. As bishop, he was a staunch defender of Nicene orthodoxy against Arianism.He was also remembered for his stand against imperial authority on two occasions. He refused to hand over for the use of the local Arian population the basilicas demanded by Valentinian II and his mother Justina (A.D. 385-6). Later, he refused to commune Theodosius I until he repented for the massacre of 7000 civilians in Thessalonica after an imperial official had been killed there. His statement that "the Emperor is within the Church, not above it" was cited well into the Middle Ages.His many writings reflected his busy pastoral life, and a spirited intellect. They were among the first patristic writings to be printed in the sixteenth century.

Early Latin Theology

Early Latin Theology
Author: Stanley Lawrence Greenslade
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1956-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664241544
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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.

Collecting Early Christian Letters

Collecting Early Christian Letters
Author: Bronwen Neil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-02-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316241025
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Letter collections in late antiquity give witness to the flourishing of letter-writing, with the development of the mostly formulaic exchanges between elites of the Graeco-Roman world to a more wide-ranging correspondence by bishops and monks, as well as emperors and Gothic kings. The contributors to this volume study individual collections from the first to sixth centuries CE, ranging from the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline letters through monastic letters from Egypt, bishops' letter collections and early papal collections compiled for various purposes. This is the first multi-authored study of New Testament and late antique letter collections, crossing the traditional divide between these disciplines by focusing on Latin, Greek, Coptic and Syriac epistolary sources. It draws together leading scholars in the field of late antique epistolography from Australasia, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.