The Writings of Lactantius - Couverture souple

Lactantius, Lucius

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 164373461X ISBN 13 : 9781643734613

Editeur : Lighthouse Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

The Writings of Lactantius including the Divine Institutes

Lactantius, moved, perhaps, by Hosius or Eusebius, undertakes the instruction of the Emperor, while seeming only to copy the example of Justin writing to Antoninus Pius. The Institutes, it is true, had been begun at an earlier date; but he economizes, for a new purpose, the material, in which, perhaps, he had only purposed to follow up the work of his teacher, in language better fitted to the polite, for refuting heathenism. I cannot doubt that he aimed, in pure Latinity, to win the Emperor and his court to a deeper and purer conviction of divine truth: to more than a feeble and possibly superstitious idea that it was useless to contend with it, and that the gods of the empire were impotent to protect themselves against Christian progress and its masterly exposures of their shame and nothingness.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lighthouse Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 164373461X
• ISBN 13: 9781643734613
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 760
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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