The Trinity, The Spectacles, Jewish Foods, In Praise of Purity, Letters (Fathers of the Church Patristic Series)
By Unknown Author.
Description
After Novatian's break with the Church over the treatment of Christians who had lapsed in the persecution of Decius (A.D. 250-52), Church authorities were reluctant to recognize officially his contributions to Christian theology. Because his writings were too valuable to ignore, a number of them were attributed to less controversial authors. On the basis of stylistic and other internal evidence, scholars have been able to retrieve Novatian's work from obscurity and to give him recognition as a pioneer of Roman Latin theology.This volume presents translations of all Novatian's...
ISBN(s)
0813215463, 9780813215464
