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Pseudo-Vigilius
Pseudo-Vigilius is the name conventionally given to the anonymous authors of the Latin pseudepigrapha of Vigilius of Thapsus. Two of such works are: *''De Trinitate'' (On the Trinity), a collection of works by a variety of authors, dating from the 4th and 5th centuries. It is divided into twelve books. The ninth and twelfth books are transmitted independently as the ''Fides Damasi'' and as a supposed translation of a work of Athanasius of Alexandria, Athanasius, respectively. The tenth and eleventh books are quoted by Augustine of Hippo, Augustine.H. A. G. Houghton, ''The Latin New Testament: A Guide to Its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts'' (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 61–62. *''Contra Varimadum arianum'' (Against Varimadus the Arian) Editions of both have been published by in ''Florilegia Biblica Africana saec. V'' (Brepols, 1961). References {{reflist Latin pseudepigrapha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contra Varimadum Arianum
''Against Varimadus the Arian'' (''Contra Varimadum arianum'') is an anonymous Nicene theological handbook against the Homoian heresy, written in Latin in a polemical style between 439 and 484.Caroline Humfress, ''Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity'' (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 231–232. It is in the literary form of ''testimonia'' (testimonies), which the reader is supposed to be able to use to respond to Homoian adversaries.Judith McClure, "Handbooks against Heresy in the West, from the Late Fourth to the Late Sixth Centuries," ''Journal of Theological Studies'' 30 (1979): 186–197, at 194–195. It belongs to the genre of heresiology, which was used to define orthodoxy and heresy.Robin Whelan, ''Being Christian in Vandal Africa'' (University of California Press, 2017), pp. 55–60. According to its preface, its author was a native of Africa (Roman province), Roman Africa living in exile in Naples after the Vandal Kingdom, Vandal takeover of his province.This is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudepigrapha
A pseudepigraph (also :wikt:anglicized, anglicized as "pseudepigraphon") is a false attribution, falsely attributed work, a text whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past. The name of the author to whom the work is falsely attributed is often prefixed with the particle ":wikt:pseudo-, pseudo-", such as for example "pseudo-Aristotle" or "pseudo-Dionysius": these terms refer to the anonymous authors of works falsely attributed to Aristotle and Dionysius the Areopagite, respectively. In biblical studies, the term ''pseudepigrapha'' can refer to an assorted collection of Jewish religious works thought to be written 300 BCE to 300 CE. They are distinguished by Protestantism, Protestants from the deuterocanonical books (Catholic and Orthodox) or Apocrypha (Protestant), the books that appear in extant copies of the Septuagint in the fourth century or later and the Vulgate, but not in the Hebrew Bible or in Protestan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vigilius Of Thapsus
Vigilius of Thapsus (before 484) also known as Vigilius Tapsensis, Vigilius Afer, or Vergil of Tapso, was a 5th-century Bishop of Thapsus in the province Byzacena, Byzacium, in what is now Tunisia, and as well as a theological writer and polemicist. After the Councils of Carthage#Synod of 484, Synod of 484, he was probably banished by the Vandal Kingdom, Vandal king Huneric, who supported Arianism, for his Trinity, Trinitarian beliefs, along with other Catholics. He may have fled to Constantinople. Works He wrote one treatise, ''Adversus Nestorium et Eutychem Libri quinque pro defesione Synodi Chalcedonensis'', often shortened to simply ''Contra Eutychetem'', in five volumes, according to the Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century, Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature. It provides a summary of the arguments against Eutychianism and defends Chalcedonian Christianity. The Catholic Encyclopedia attributes another work to him, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fides Damasi
Fides or FIDES may refer to: *Faith, trust, loyalty, or fidelity, or a religious belief *Fides (cycling team), an Italian professional cycling team in 1961 *Fides (deity), goddess of trust in Roman mythology * Fides (reliability), guide allowing estimated reliability calculation in electronics * Fides (name), given name *37 Fides, asteroid in the main belt of Earth's Solar System *''Uberrima fides'', legal doctrine governing insurance contracts *Agenzia Fides, news agency of the Vatican * FIDES Bank Namibia, a commercial bank *Fonds d'Investissements pour le Developpement Economique et Social The Investment Fund for Economic and Social Development (, or FIDES) was a development finance institution active in the French colonial empire, notably in Africa. It was established in 1946, as France recalled its earlier policy that colonies shou ..., former government agency of colonial-era France * Sky Fides, a Czech paraglider design See also * Bona fide (other) * Fide (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athanasius Of Alexandria
Athanasius I of Alexandria ( – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor, or, among Coptic Christians, Athanasius the Apostolic, was a Christian theologian and the 20th patriarch of Alexandria (as Athanasius I). His intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years ( – 2 May 373), of which over 17 encompassed five exiles, when he was replaced on the order of four different Roman emperors. Athanasius was a Church Father, the chief proponent of Trinitarianism against Arianism, and a noted Egyptian Christian leader of the fourth century. Conflict with Arius and Arianism, as well as with successive Roman emperors, shaped Athanasius' career. In 325, at age 27, Athanasius began his leading role against the Arians as a deacon and assistant to Bishop Alexander of Alexandria during the First Council of Nicaea. Roman Emperor Constantine the Great had convened the council in May–August 325 to address the Arian position that the Son of God, Jesus of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustine Of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo ( , ; ; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings deeply influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period. His many important works include '' The City of God'', '' On Christian Doctrine'', and '' Confessions''. According to his contemporary, Jerome of Stridon, Augustine "established anew the ancient Faith". In his youth he was drawn to the Manichaean faith, and later to the Hellenistic philosophy of Neoplatonism. After his conversion to Christianity and baptism in 386, Augustine developed his own approach to philosophy and theology, accommodating a variety of methods and perspectives. Believing the grace of Christ was indispensable to human freedom, he helped formulate the doctrine of original sin and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
