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 lucidly written books opens with a survey of the research carried out so far on the aim, structure and central theme of the City of God.
This book is about the communicative purpose and the audience of the Confessions.
This book presents 37 letters of Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-379) translated into English and equipped with scholarly notes.
Surprises await readers of this book, which results from fifteen years of research. For instance, they will discover that even Augustine, in his anti-Manichaean phase, supported the theory of universal restoration.
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.
The giant treatise Contra Celsum is Origen's main and longest work. It is of significance for both Greek Patristics and Ancient Philosophy. However, the extant text of the treatise is lacunose and corrupt.