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The Writings of Lactantius - Couverture souple

Lactantius, Lucius

 
9781643734613: The Writings of Lactantius
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.

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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
Personne responsable
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