Early Christianity & Patristics

ISBN: 9780521196055
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Brent D. Shaw provides an expansive new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of North Africa in late antiquity, in which Augustine played a central role as Bishop of Hippo. The development and dep... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521127257
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Brent D. Shaw provides an expansive new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of North Africa in late antiquity, in which Augustine played a central role as Bishop of Hippo. The development and dep... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521806558
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The works translated here deal with two major themes in the thinking of St Augustine (354-430): free will and divine grace. 'On the Free Choice of the Will', 'On Grace and Free Choice', 'On Reprimand and Grace' and 'On the Gift of Perseverance'... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521001298
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The works translated here deal with two major themes in the thinking of St Augustine (354-430): free will and divine grace. 'On the Free Choice of the Will', 'On Grace and Free Choice', 'On Reprimand and Grace' and 'On the Gift of Perseverance'... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199754519
Published by : Oxford University Press
elf-restraint or self-mastery may appear to be the opposite of erotic desire. But in this nuanced, literary analysis, Diane Lipsett traces the intriguing interplay of desire and self-restraint in three ancient tales of conversion: The Shepherd ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409430162
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly research highly rewarding for both the philologist and the historian. The studies reproduced in this volume cover a chronolog... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409400349
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
This reader contains 16 important previously published articles which together offer a comprehensive overview of the diversity of eastern Christianities, the doctrinal disputes which plagued and defined the eastern churches, the processes wherb... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780226200026
Published by : University of Chicago Press
Using basic concepts of economic theory, Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert D. Tollison explain the origin and subsequent spread of Roman Christianity, showing first how the standard concepts of risk, cost, and benefit can account for the demand ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780754650331
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Hagiography is the most abundantly represented genre of Byzantine literature and it offers crucial insight to the development of religious thought and practice, social and literary life, and the history of the empire. This, the first volume of... .... Learn More