"Translation of St. Cyprian's works originally published as part of The Ante- Nicene Fathers: The Writings of the Fathers down to AD 325, Volume 5, 1885."

Written from Roman North Africa, primarily between 250 and 258, and meant to be circulated and copied, the four volumes of letters provide an entrée into Cypri

This book explores Cyprian in his intellectual and political context of mid-third-century AD Carthage.

The letters, of which eighty-one have come down to us, written from c.249 until his death in 258 A.D., may be found translated in this volume.

Up to Augustine, bishop Cyprian of Carthage was the theological authority in the West, and he has continued to influence theology ever since. Cyprian of Carthag