Download or read book The Library of Lactantius written by Robert Maxwell Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lactantius has always commanded respect and admiration for his Latinity, but of his numerous works on various subjects only his Christian writings survive. He lived (c. AD 240-320) in an age of bureaucracy, inflation and narrow-minded ideology when civilized men had lost confidence in their world and when powerful forces were threatening the very existence and freedom of the Roman way of life. At such a time of crisis, with all the resources of the classical inheritance behind him, he turned to the god of the Christians. This makes his writing all the more significant for us today.Lactantius was not a great thinker, but he is very representative of his times, and he is perhaps the most Classical of all early Christian writers. This study provides a detailed analysis of his literary background and of the books that he actually read.
Download or read book The Library of Lactantius written by Jackson Bryce and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1990 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Divine Institutes Books I VII written by Lactantius and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description available
Download or read book The Making of a Christian Empire written by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Making of a Christian Empire is the first full-length book to interpret the Divine Institutes as a historical source. Exploring Lactantius's use of theology, philosophy, and rhetorical techniques, Digeser perceives the Divine Institutes as a sophisticated proposal for a monotheistic state that intimately connected the religious policies of Diocletian and Constantine, both of whom used religion to fortify and unite the Roman Empire."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Works of Lactantius written by Lactantius and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Lactantius written by Lactantius and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Divine Institutes written by Lactantius and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity written by A.D.(Doug) Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book A.D. Lee charts the rise to dominance of Christianity in the Roman empire. Using translated texts he explains the fortunes of both Pagans and Christians from the upheavals of the 3rd Century to the increasingly tumultuous times of the 5th and 6th centuries. The book also examines important themes in Late Antiquity such as the growth of monasticism, the emerging power of bishops and the development of pilgrimage, and looks at the fate of other significant religious groups including the Jews, Zoroastrians and Manichaeans.
Download or read book 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 written by Lactantius and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ethics of Suicide written by M. Pabst Battin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "noble duty," or even a fundamental human right? Whether it is called "suicide" or not, what role may a person play in the end of his or her own life? This collection of primary sources--the principal texts of ethical interest from major writers in western and nonwestern cultures, from the principal religious traditions, and from oral cultures where observer reports of traditional practices are available, spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, the Arctic, and North and South America--facilitates exploration of many controversial practical issues: physician-assisted suicide or aid-in-dying; suicide in social or political protest; self-sacrifice and martyrdom; suicides of honor or loyalty; religious and ritual practices that lead to death, including sati or widow-burning, hara-kiri, and sallekhana, or fasting unto death; and suicide bombings, kamikaze missions, jihad, and other tactical and military suicides. This collection has no interest in taking sides in controversies about the ethics of suicide; rather, rather, it serves to expand the character of these debates, by showing them to be multi-dimensional, a complex and vital part of human ethical thought.
Download or read book Constantine Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age written by Jonathan Bardill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Apocalyptic Spirituality written by Bernard McGinn and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes available major texts in the Christian apocalyptic literature from the 4th to the 16th centuries. The apocalyptic tradition is that of traditional philosophy based on revelation and concerned with the end of the world.
Download or read book The Works of Lactantius written by Lactantius and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constantine the Emperor written by David Stone Potter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a critical eye aimed at earlier accounts of Constantine's life, the author aims to provide the most comprehensive, authoritative and readable account of the Roman emperor's extraordinary life.
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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature written by Frances Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book The Works of Lactantius Vol II Together with The Testaments of the Twelve Patricarchs and Fragments of the Second and Third Centuries written by Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
