This reading of the "Confessions" focuses on its aim to convert its readers (it displays some characteristics of the protreptic genre) and on a specific segment of its potential audience, Augustine's erstwhile co-religionists, the ...
Leo the Great responded to the crisis of the western empire by replacing secular Rome with a Christian universal Rome that could survive its political demise.
This book presents 37 letters of Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-379) translated into English and equipped with scholarly notes.
This book presents 37 letters of Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-379) translated into English and equipped with scholarly notes.
An exposition challenging inveterate verdicts ingrained in the historical / theological mindset about Origen, who is shown to have produced a sheerly new theory of Time, the Christian one.
A critical edition of Origen's main and longest work "Contra Celsum."
Against claims that Origen causes History to evaporate into barren idealism, his theology is shown to have no other source and aim than historical occurences.
This volume presents a first publication of the entire collection of literary Coptic manuscripts in the A. S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow.
A common accusation made against Origen is that he dissolves history into intellectual abstraction and that his eschatology (if this is recognized at all) is notoriously obscure.