Hilary of Poitiers' preface to his Opus historicum : translation and commentary /

Hilary of Poitiers' preface to his Opus historicum : translation and commentary /

What precisely does Hilary's so-called Opus Historicum aim at? His Preface provides the clue. An introduction to the present edition sketches the mutilated work's discovery, tabulates its contents, and discusses problems of dating and authenticity. The English translation, which faces the...

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Main Author: Hilary, Saint, Bishop of Poitiers, -367?.

Other Authors: Smulders, Pieter Frans, 1911-

Format: eBook

Language: English
Latin

Published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1995.

Series: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 29.
Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004308961.

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Hilary, > Saint, Bishop of Poitiers, > -367?
Hilary, > Saint, Bishop of Poitiers, > -367?.
30 - 600
Arianism > History.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Arianism.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
History.

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Call Number: BT1350 .H5513 1995

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Summary:What precisely does Hilary's so-called Opus Historicum aim at? His Preface provides the clue. An introduction to the present edition sketches the mutilated work's discovery, tabulates its contents, and discusses problems of dating and authenticity. The English translation, which faces the Latin text, adopts some alternative readings. The Preface is elucidated in itself, and by reference to the earlier In Matthaeum . Central issues are hope and love, confessors and martyrs, imperial favours and threats, the bishop and his inner freedom. The circumspect treatment of both the reader and the subject reveals 'conscientization' of the bishops as the aim of the Opus Historicum . One of the book's excurses deals with the edict of Arles and Milan, and concludes that the nameless creed quoted by Hilary might preserve the lost edict's doctrinal preliminaries.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 169 pages, [1] leaf of plates) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-162) and indexes.
ISBN:9789004312968
ISSN:0920-623X ;
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