Oxford University Press, 2022. — ix, 261 p. — (Oxford Early Christian Studies). Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education approaches fundamental questions about the role and function of education in late antiquity through a detailed study of the thought of Dorotheus of Gaza, a sixth-century Palestinian monk. It illumines the thought of a significant figure in Palestinian...
Brill Schöningh, 2024. — XXXVI + 301 p. — (Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology 10). “Fontes Nicaenae Synodi” is a sourcebook that provides the original text with an English translation and footnotes of the contemporary sources for the study of the Council of Nicaea (325). These sources are letters, canons, creeds, imperial documents, and synodal statements that deal...
Brill Schöningh, 2025. — XX + 329 p. — (Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology 14). The Council of Nicaea is a fundamental milestone in the development of Christian theology and, consequently, a significant factor in shaping Western culture. In the context of a new relationship with the Roman Empire, an intense theological controversy led to the convening of the Council...
Brill, 2025. — 538 p. — (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 122). In Early Christianity on the Lower Maeander, Ulrich Huttner explores the religious authorities crucial for the poleis in the region (Miletus, Magnesia, Tralles, Nysa) and for shaping the conditions under which the Christian communities developed from the first to the fifth centuries. The Christians had to...
New York: Seabury Press, 1968. — xiv, 171 p. These individually distinct yet interrelated essays offer grounds for a revised perspective on the figure of Pelagius as a controversialist and theologian of the late fourth and early fifth centuries. Three of its chapters proceed from the conviction that much of interest can be discovered about both the life and the thought of...
Cambridge University Press, 2025. — 280 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World). Christianity is often considered prevalent when it comes to defining the key values of late antique society, whereas 'feeling connected to the Roman past' is commonly regarded as an add-on for cultivated elites. This book demonstrates the significant impact of popular Roman culture on the religious...
Liverpool University Press, 2016. — 410 p. — (Translated Texts for Historians, Contexts 2). This is the first book for over twenty years to undertake a holistic examination of the Donatist Controversy, a bilious and sometimes violent schism that broke out in the North African Christian Church in the early years of the century AD and which continued up until the sixth century...
Wallraff Martin, Stutz Jonathan, Marinides Nicholas (eds.). Translated by Nicholas Marinides. — 406 p. — (Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte N.F. 25). Gelasius, the Nicene bishop of Caesarea Maritima for roughly the last third of the fourth century, has been overshadowed by his more famous uncle and patron Cyril of Jerusalem. Gelasius’ works...
Brepols, 2019. — xliv + 381 p. — (Textes et Etudes du Moyen Âge 91). Composé en 432-433, le Liber contra collatorem de Prosper d’Aquitaine entend réfuter les positions d’un certain « conférencier » – comprendre : l’auteur des Conférences, Jean Cassien. C’est dans cette oeuvre que Prosper, défenseur autoproclamé de saint Augustin et de sa doctrine sur la grâce, a pu fournir la...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 324 p. — (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology). No figure of fourth-century Christianity seems to be both so well known and clouded in mystery as Hilary of Poitiers. His invaluable position historically is unquestioned, but the coherence and significance of his own thought is less certain. While scholars have worked to renew Hilary’s place...
De Gruyter, 2006. — 476 p. — (Untersuchungen zur Antiken Literatur und Geschichte 82). Entgegen der verbreiteten Auffassung, nach der Augustins Rhetorik dem Verständnis seines theologisch-philosophischen Anliegens eher hinderlich ist, versucht das vorliegende Buch, Augustins rhetorische Technik als hermeneutischen Schlüssel zu seiner philosophischen Argumentation nutzbar zu...
De Gruyter, 2006. — 336 p. — (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 153). The Testament of Solomon is presented here for the first time in a complete German translation based on McCown’s edition of the text, up to now regarded as the authoritative version, and taking full account of the Greek textual variants. A detailed introduction and...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 308 p. — (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 181). This volume examines the inter-religious conflicts of the 4th and 5th centuries starting with Contra Iulianum, the reply by Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria to the anti-Christian screed Contra Galilaeos written by Rome’s last pagan emperor Julian. One focus is to situate these...
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1954. — 192 S. — (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 59). Die 'Historia tripartita' war als Fortsetzung der in Rufins Übersetzung benutzten Kirchengeschichte des Euseb bis ins späte Mittelalter im Westen das wichtigste historische Hilfsmittel für die Zeit von Konstantin bis Theodosius II., von Nicäa bis Ephesus. Schon...