Documents from the Luciferians

Download or read book Documents from the Luciferians written by Colin M. Whiting and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six important documents for scholars of early church history This volume includes English translations of several documents concerning the Luciferians, a group of fourth-century Christians whose name derives from the bishop Lucifer of Cagliari. Documents include a confession of faith written for Emperor Theodosius I and a theological treatise written for his wife by Luciferian clergyman Faustinus, the first English translation of a Luciferian petition to Theodosius that focuses on the persecution the community has suffered, Theodosius’s imperial law in response to the Luciferians, two letters composed by Luciferians that purport to represent correspondence from the bishop Athanasius of Alexandria to Lucifer, and the priest Jerome’s Dialogus adversus Luciferianos. These texts highlight connections between developments in Christian theology and local Christian communities in the course of the fourth century. Features: The first English translation of Faustinus’s Libellus precum An overview of the development of late antique theology and Christianity An introduction to Luciferian beliefs and the translated texts