Author: LactantiusPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813211492
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
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The Divine Institutes
Author: LactantiusDivine Institutes
Author: LactantiusPublisher:
ISBN: 9780853239888
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
"Lactantius enjoyed a high reputation in late antiquity and in the Renaissance, as apologist, rhetorician and stylist. He earned his living as a teacher of rhetorical Latin, and Ciceronian Latin lived again through his pen, enabling his wit and empowering his argument." "This edition of Divine Institutes has been prepared with students and scholars of intellectual history in mind, but it will also appeal to those concerned with ecclesiastical history and patristics, and to anyone interested in tracing the impact of Classical philosophy and literature on an early Christian thinker."-- Publisher description.
Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence
Author: Christian ThomasiusPublisher: Natural Law and Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780865975187
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Christian Thomasius's natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke's in England. First published in 1688, Thomasius's Institutionum jurisprudentiae divinae (Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence) attempted to draw a clear distinction between natural and revealed law and to emphasize that human reason was able to know the precepts of natural law without the aid of Scripture. Thomasius also argued that his orthodox Lutheran opponents had failed to understand this distinction and thereby had confused reason and Scripture. In addition to the Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, this volume contains significant selections from his Fundamenta juris naturae et gentium (Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations), published in 1705. In Foundations Thomasius significantly revised the theory he had put forward in the Institutes, and much of the Foundations therefore is a paragraph-by-paragraph commentary on his earlier ideas. These works are a companion to Thomasius's Essays on Church, State, and Politics, and together they provide the first-ever English presentation of this preeminent German thinker.
The Divine Institutes, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 49)
Author: LactantiusPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813211492
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
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The Divine Institutes, Books I–VII
Author: LactantiusPublisher: Catholic University of America Press
ISBN: 9780813200491
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
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Constantine and the Divine Mind
Author: Kegan A. ChandlerPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532689926
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Constantine’s conversion to Christianity marks one of the most significant turning points in the epic of Western civilization. It is also one of history’s most controversial and hotly-debated episodes. Why did Constantine join a persecuted sect? When did he convert? And what kind of Christian did he ultimately become? Such questions have perennially challenged historians, but modern scholarship has opened a new door towards understanding the fourth century’s most famous and mysterious convert. In Constantine and the Divine Mind, Chandler offers a new portrait of Constantine as a deeply religious man on a quest to restore what he believed was once the original religion of mankind: monotheism. By tracing this theological quest and important historical trends in Roman paganism, Chandler illuminates the process by which Constantine embraced Christianity, and how the reasons for that embrace continued to manifest in his religious policies. In this we discover not only Constantine’s personal religious journey, but the reason why Christianity was first developed into a world power.
The Works of Lactantius: A treatise on the anger of God. On the workmanship of God, or the formation of man. The epitome of The divine institutes. Of the manner in which the persecutors died. Fragments of Lactantius Firmianus. The phoenix. A poem on the passion of the Lord. Poem on Easter. Index. The testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
Author: LactantiusThe Divine Institutes, Books I–VII
Author: LactantiusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
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Divine Presence as Activity and the Incarnation
Author: Alexander S. JensenPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040091296
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
This book offers an original perspective on the doctrine of incarnation through a discussion of divine presence and action, arguing for the plausibility of Chalcedonian Christology. It draws on a range of theological and philosophical sources, from St. Athanasius of Alexandria’s approach regarding the presence of the logos asarkos in the world to the relational understanding of personhood put forward by John Zizioulas, Christos Yannaras and others. The suggestion is that divine presence needs to be understood in consistently Trinitarian terms and the book sets out the possibility of a theology of presence which understands God as present and immanent in the world, while, at the same time, remaining transcendent and ineffable. Alexander Jensen maintains that the classical understanding of divine presence, which sees God as being present according to God’s activity, is much more useful in Christology than today’s predominant modern notion of presence as occupying space, and combines this with an ontological understanding of personhood. The book gives an account of the person and work of Christ that takes seriously the insights of historical research and critical biblical interpretation. It takes seriously the full humanity of Jesus of Nazareth and asserts that in this man we encounter God. It will be of particular interest to systematic theologians, as well as those concerned with the history of Christian theology and philosophical theology.
Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age
Author: Jonathan BardillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521764238
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
"Constantine was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. The book explores the emperor's image as conveyed through literature, art, and architecture, and shows how Constantine reconciled the tradition of imperial divinity with his monotheistic faith. It demonstrates how the traditional themes and imagery of kingship were exploited to portray the emperor as the saviour of his people and to assimilate him to Christ. This is the first book to study simultaneously both archaeological and historical information to build a picture of the emperor's image and propaganda. It is extensively illustrated" --Provided by publisher.