Carpocrate, originaire d’Alexandrie, enseignait vers la moitié du deuxième siècle, que toute chose prend son commencement dans un être inconnu et sans nom. De cet être émane la multitude des esprits. Une…
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Quote. Ralph V. Turner. ‘Descendit Ad Inferos’ […]. 1966.
Pope Gregory wrote scores of letters that circulated widely throughout Christendom, and there is one among them in which he discussed Christ’s descent into hell. He wrote to two officers of the…
Charpentier. Etudes sur les Peres de l’Eglise. 1853.
Etudes sur les Peres de l’Eglise (1853) Author: Charpentier, Jean Pierre, 1797-1878 Volumes: 2 Subject: Littérature chrétienne primitive; Pères de l’Église Publisher: Paris : Veuve Maire-Nyon Language: French Call number: br67.c463 Digitizing…
De Montfaucon. Sancti Athanasii Archiepiscopi Alexandrini Opera dogmatica selecta. 1853.
Sancti Athanasii Archiepiscopi Alexandrini Opera dogmatica selecta (1853) Author: Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, d. 373; Montfaucon, Bernard de, 1655-1741; Thilo, Johann Karl, 1794-1853; Goldhorn, David Johann Heinrich Publisher: Lipsia, Weigel Language:…
Quote. Roger Collins. ‘Visigothic Spain 409-711’, “Books and Readers: The Legacy of Africa”. 2004.
In the seventh century the Spanish church appears intellectually outstanding. It produced a succession of authors of theological, literary, and liturgical texts that were unparalleled, at least in the West, at this…
Quote. John D. Niles. Bede’s Cædmon, ‘The Man Who Had No Story’. 2006.
When one examines Bede’s tale of Caedmon with Irish tale-type 2412B in mind, the resemblance of its plot to that structural pattern is quite evident. Equally obvious is that Bede’s tale departs…
Quote. Alan Thacker. Bede and the Ordering of Understanding. 2006.
From the Scriptures, Bede moves on to hagiography, history and martyrology, hymns and epigrams, and natural science and computus, concluding with orthography, meter and grammar. Now there is nothing random or accidental…
Sedgefield. King Alfred’s Old English version of Boethius De consolatione philosophiae. 1899.
King Alfred’s Old English version of Boethius De consolatione philosophiae (1899) Author: Boethius, d. 524; Alfred, King of England, 849-899; Sedgefield, Walter John, 1866-? Subject: Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press Language: English…
Quote. Einar Thomassen. Valentinian Ideas About Salvation as Transformation. 2009.
In his violent attack on the Valentinians in Book 31 of the Panarion, Bishop Epiphanius, amongst other grievances, also ridicules their views on resurrection: They deny the resurrection of the dead, uttering…
Article. Il Vaticano II all’interno della «traditio ecclesiae»: La prospettiva patristica. Daniele Gianotti. 2012
Il Vaticano II all’interno della «traditio ecclesiae». La prospettiva patristica. Daniele Gianotti Rivista di scienze religiose (Molfetta), 26 (2012) 329-346 Sommario: Il contributo si propone di indicare i tratti principali dell’influsso avuto…
Quote. Henry Chadwick. Boetius. 1981.
The preface to Boethius’ Institutio arithmetica implies an intention to write introductions to all four mathematical disciplines. Declarations of intent are not always fulfilled. At one time Augustine intended to write treatises…
Quote. Robert M. Grant. Early Christians and Animals. 1999.
Isidore died before finishing his Etymologies, divided into twenty books by his friend Braulio, bishop of Saragossa. The title reflects his basic literary interests, and his method often leads him into fanciful…