Patrology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quasten, Johannes, 1900-1987.

Contributor:

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Early.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

3 volumes ; 23 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

Westminster, Md. : Newman Press : Utrecht, Spectrum Publishers, 1950-53.

Summary:

V.1. The beginnings of patristic literature.--v.2. The ante-Nicene literature after Irenaeus.--v.3. The Golden Age of Greek patristic literature from the Council of Nicaea to the Council of Chalcedon.

Contents:

I. The Turnabout of the Fourth Century: A Political, Geographical, Social, Ecclesiastical and Doctrinal Framework of the Century / Adalbert Hamman

The Christian West 1

"Unitas" and "Romanitas" 5

The Church and the Empire in the West 7

Classical Culture and Christian Culture 13

The Life of the Christian Community 20

Western Monasticism 25

II. Hilary of Poitiers and the Arian Crisis in the West: Polemicists and Heretics / Manlio Simonetti

Hilary of Poitiers and the Arian Crisis in the West 33

Hilary 36

Doctrinal Works 39

1. De Trinitate 39

2. De Synodis 43

Historical Works 45

1. Liber ad Constantium 45

2. Liber II ad Constantium 45

3. Liber contra Constantium 45

4. Contra Auxentium 46

5. Fragmenta historica 46

Exegetical Works 48

1. Commentary on Matthew 49

2. Commentary on the Psalms 50

3. De mysteriis 51

Hymns 52

Lost Works and Spuria 54

Hilary's Theology 54

Anti-Arian Writers 61

Hosius 61

Eusebius of Vercelli 62

Lucifer and the Luciferians 64

Marius Victorinus 69

Theological Works 70

Exegetical Works 73

Theological Reflection 76

Potamius 80

Phoebadius 83

Gregory of Elvira 84

Faustinus 90

Altercation Between Heraclianus and Germinius, Bishop of Sirmium 91

Arian Literature 93

Wulfila and Arianism in Illyria 95

Maximinus 98

Exegetical Literature 101

Doctrinal Literature 105

Gothic Literature 113

Heretical and Anti-Heretical Writers of the Fourth Century 114

Donatist Literature 114

Tyconius 119

Optatus 122

Zeno 127

Philaster 130

Gaudentius 133

Pacian 135

Priscillian and the Priscillianists 138

III. Ambrose of Milan, Ambrosiaster and Nicetas / Maria Grazia Mara

Ambrose of Milan 144

Life 144

Writings 152

Exegetical Works 153

1. Hexaemeron 153

2. De Paradiso 154

3. De Cain et Abel 155

4. De Noe 155

5. De Abraham (libri duo) 156

6. De Isaac et anima 156

7. De bono mortis 157

8. De fuga saeculi 158

9. De Iacob et vita beata 158

10. De Ioseph 159

11. De Patriarchis 159

12. De Helia et Ieiunio 160

13. De Nabuthae historia 160

14. De Tobia 161

15. De interpellatione Iob et David 161

16. De apologia prophetae David 162

17. Enarrationes in XII Psalmos Davidicos 163

18. Expositio Psalmi CXVIII 163

19. Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam 164

20. Expositio Isaiae prophetae 165

Moral and Ascetical Works 166

1. De officiis ministrorum 166

2. De virginibus 167

3. De viduis 168

4. De virginitate 168

5. De institutione virginis 168

6. Exhortatio virginitatis 168

Dogmatic Works 169

1. De fide ad Gratianum 169

2. De Spiritu Sancto 169

3. De incarnationis dominicae sacramento 170

4. Explanatio symboli ad initiandos 170

5. Expositio fidei 171

6. De mysteriis 171

7. De sacramentis 172

8. De paenitentia 173

9. De sacramento regenerationis sive de philosophia 173

Miscellaneous Works: Sermons, Letters, Hymns 173

1. Sermons 174

a) De excessu fratris 174

b) De obitu Valentiniani 174

c) De obitu Theodosii 175

d) Sermo contra Auxentium de Basilicis tradendis 175

2. Letters 176

3. Hymns 177

Ambrosiaster 180

Writings 182

1. Commentary on the Pauline Epistles 182

2. Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti 184

Dubious Works 184

1. Commentary on Matthew 24 184

2. De tribus mensuris and De Petro apostolo 185

3. Lex Dei sive Mosaicarum et Romanarum legum collatio, De bello iudaico and Other Fragments 186

Theology 186

1. Trinitarian Theology 186

2. Christology 187

3. The World, Mankind, Sin and Redemption 187

4. Justification and Salvation 188

5. Paganism and Judaism 189

Nicetas of Remesiana 190

Writings 191

1. Instructio ad competentes 191

2. De diversis appellationibus 192

3. De vigiliis servorum Dei 193

4. De psalmodiae bono (De utilitate hymnorum) 193

5. De lapsu virginis 193

6. The "Te Deum" 193

IV. The Translations. Jerome and Rufinus / Jean Gribomont

The Translations 195

1. The Versions of the Bible 198

2. Apocrypha 202

3. Exegesis 203

4. Hagiography 204

5. Monastic Literature 206

6. Canonical and Ecclesiastical Documents 207

7. Pastoral Works 208

8. Platonism and Erudition 209

Jerome 212

Writings 219

The Biblical Translations 221

1. The Gospels 222

2. The Remainder of the New Testament 222

3. The First Revision of the Psalter 223

4. The Gallican Psalter and the Revision from the Hexapla 223

5. The New Version Based on the Hebrew 224

6. The Deuterocanonical Books 226

Translations and Reference Works 227

1. The Chronicle of Eusebius 227

2. The Onomastica: Liber locorum, liber nominum 228

3. De viris inlustribus 228

Translations of Origen and Didymus 229

1. Origen's Homilies on the Prophets and on the Canticle 229

2. Origen's Homilies on Luke 230

3. The De principiis 230

4. The Treatise of Didymus on the Holy Spirit 230

Translations of Polemical Texts 231

Pachomiana 231

Biblical Commentaries 232

1. Commentaries on Paul 232

2. Commentary on Ecclesiastes 232

3. Notes on the Psalms 233

4. Quaestiones Hebraicae in Genesim 233

5. Commentaries on the Prophets 234

6. The Commentary on Matthew 235

7. The Commentary on the Apocalypse 235

Homilies 236

The Lives of the Hermits 237

1. The Life of Paul 237

2. The Life of Hilarion 237

3. The Life of Malchus 238

Polemical Works 238

1. The Dialogue Against the Luciferians 238

2. Contra Helvidium 239

3. Adversus Iovinianum 239

4. Contra Iohannem Hierosolymitanum 239

5. Apologia adversus libros Rufini 240

6. Contra Vigilantium 240

7. The Dialogue Against the Pelagians 241

Correspondence 241

Culture and Theology 242

1. The Greek Classical Authors 243

2. The Latin Classics. Jerome's Style 243

3. Preceding Christian Literature 244

4. The Philologist of Oriental Languages 244

5. Hermeneutical and Exegetical Principles 245

6. Ecclesiology and Anthropology 245

7. Morality and Asceticism 246

Posthumous Authority 246

Rufinus the Syrian 246

Rufinus of Aquileia 247

Writings 248

1. The Apologies 249

2. The Translations of Origen 250

3. The Sentences of Evagrius and Sextus 251

4. Historia Monachorum in Aegypto 252

5. Basil and Gregory Nazienzus 252

6. The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius 252

7. The Clementine Recognitiones 253

8. Original Works 253

V. Christian Poetry / Angelo DiBerardino

The Beginnings of Christian Poetry 255

Commodian 259

2. Carmen Apologeticum 262

Iuvencus 265

Centones 269

Damasus 273

1. Epigrams (Titles) 275

2. Letters 277

Ausonius 278

Prudentius 281

Writings 282

1. Cathemerinon (liber) 285

2. Apotheosis 286

3. Hamartigenia 288

4. Psychomachia 289

5. Contra Symmachum 290

6. Peristephanon 293

7. Dittochaeon 296

Paulinus of Nola 296

Writings 299

1. Letters 299

2. Poems 301

1. Sacramentorum liber 306

2. Poema ultimum 306

3. De obitu Baebiani 307

Claudianus 307

Licentius 309

Endelechius 311

Cyprian the Poet 312

1. Heptateucos 313

2. Dubious or Spurious Works 315

a) Orationes 315

b) Caena Cypriani 315

c) De Sodoma and De Jona 316

d) Ad quendam senatorem (Incipit: cum te diversis) 317

Spes 317

Achilles 318

Claudius Marius Victorius 319

Sedulius 321

Orientius 326

Agrestius 329

Paulinus of Pella 330

Merobaudes 332

Anonymous Poems 334

1. Laudes Domini 334

2. Carmen contra paganos (Cod. Par. 8084) 334

3. Epigramma Paulini 336

4. Carmen de Providentia 337

5. De ligno crucis 339

6. Psalmus responsorius 340

VI. Saint Augustine / Agostino Trape

Life 342

Augustine's Life 345

1. From Birth to Conversion (354-386) 345

2. From Conversion to Episcopate (386-396) 348

3. From Episcopate to Death (396-430) 349

Personality 350

Writings 355

Books 356

1. Autobiographical 356

2. Philosophical 356

3. Apologetics 361

4. Dogmatic 369

5. Moral and Pastoral 372

6. Monastic 375

7. Exegetical 376

8. Polemical 380

Letters 393

Treatises 395

Dubious Works 400

Spurious Works 401

Doctrine 403

Reason and Faith 403

2. Principles 407

3. Themes 409

4. Solutions 415

Theology 425

1. Theological Method 425

2. Trinitarian Doctrine 427

3. Christological Doctrine 430

4. Mariology 432

5. Soteriology 433

6. Supernatural Anthropology 435

7. The Church 445

8. Sacraments 449

9. Eschatology 451

Spiritual Doctrine 453

1. Characteristics 453

2. Essential Points 454

3. Summit 458

VII. Adversaries and Friends of Augustine / Vittorino Grossi

The Pelagian Controversy: Friends and Adversaries of Augustine 463

Adversaries of Augustine 463

Pelagius 465

The Works of the Pelagian "Corpus" 469

A) Authentic Works 469

B) Writings Similar to Pelagius' 470

C) "Pelagian" Writings by Other Authors 470

1. Exegetical Works 471

2. Theological Writings 472

3. Ascetical-Moral Writings 475

The Doctrine of Pelagius' 476

1. Before 411: De induratione cordis Pharaonis 476

2. The Pelagianism of the Years 411-418 477

a. The Condemnation of 411 477

b. The Events from 411 to 418 478

3. Pelagianism after 418 483

Caelestius 486

Julian of Eclanum 487

Writings 488

Theology 489

Works Attributed to Julian 492

An(n)ianus 493

The Friends of Augustine 494

(Paul) Orosius 494

Marius Mercator 499

Quodvultdeus 501

VIII. Writers of Gaul / Adalbert Hamman

Eucherius of Lyons 504

Eutropius 507

Evagrius 509

Hilary of Arles 510

Honoratus of Arles 511

John Cassian 512

Leo of Bourges 524

Leporius 524

Lupus of Troyes 525

Musaeus of Marseilles 526

Rusticus 526

Salonius of Geneva 527

Salvian of Marseilles 528

Sulpicius Severus 537

Valerian of Cimiez 543

Victorius of Aquitania 544

Victricius of Rouen 544

Vincent, A Priest of Gaul 545

Vincent of Lerins 546

The Commonitorium 547

a) Analysis 547

b) The Teaching and Erudition of the Commonitorium 549

c) Vincent of Lerins and History 550

Prosper of Aquitaine 551

Works 552

1. Letters 553

2. Works in Verse 553

3. Theological Works 554

4. Historical Works 555

5. Spuria 555

Doctrine 556

1. The Defender of the Augustinian Teaching on Grace 556

2. The De vocatione omnium gentium 557

3. Prosper and the History of Augustinianism 557

Etheria (Egeria) 558

Itinerarium or Peregrinatio ad loca sancta 559

The Itinerarium Burdigalense 562

Sortes Sangallenses (Anonymous) 562

IX. Italian Writers Until Pope Leo the Great / Basil Studer

Italian and Anonymous Authors of the Fourth and Fifth Century 564

Ps. Hegemonius 564

Correspondence Between Paul and Seneca 564

Collatio Alexandri et Dindimi 564

Postulationes III de Reconciliandis Peccatoribus 565

Aponius 565

Arnobius the Younger 567

Firmicus Maternus 569

Fortunatianus of Aquileia 572

Chromatius of Aquileia 572

Maximus of Turin 574

Peter Chrysologus 575

Roman Pontiffs from Siricius to Leo the Great 578

The Collection of Papal Letters from Siricius until Sixtus III 578

Papal Letters Prior to Siricius 579

Siricius 580

Anastasius 581

Innocent I 582

Zosimus 585

Boniface I 586

Celestine I 587

Sixtus III 589

Leo the Great 589

Life and Person 589

Writings 595

1. Letters 595

2. Sermons 596

3. Liturgical Texts, Inscriptions, Spuria 598

Theology 600

1. The Main Characteristics of Leo's Theology 600

2. The Christological Foundations 602

3. The Presence of Christ in the Christian Community 605

4. The Presence of Christ in the Church of Rome 607.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

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