The Church in the Roman Empire

by Boyer, John; Kirshner, Julius

• ISBN13: 9780226069395
• ISBN10: 0226069397
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-03-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teachers and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and themes in Western history. Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific eras and periods. The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequences.

Table of Contents

Series Editor Foreword

General Introduction and Select Bibliography

The Call to Conversion in a Hostile Environment

Justin Martyr,First Apology

Tatian,Address to the Greeks

Letter to Diognetus From Persecuted to Persecutor

The Martyrdom of Saint Perpetua

Eusebius of Caesarea,The Ecclesiastical History 6

Athanasius,History of the Arians

Sozomen,Ecclesiastical History

Codex Theodosianus,16.1.1

Augustine,Letter 185: On the Correction of the Donatists

Relations between Church Government and Imperial Administration

Eusebius of Caesarea,Life of Constantine the Great

AmbroseLetter 51: To Theodosius

Codex Theodosianus,16.2.41

Jerome,Letter 1: To Innocent

Augustine,The City of God

Pope Gelasius I,Letter to the Emperor Anastasius Christianity and Paganism

Augustine,The City of God

Codex Theodosianus,16.7.1.5

Jerome,Against Vigilantius

Athanasius,Discourse 3 against the Arians

John Chrysostom,Homilies Concerning the Statues

Sozomen,Ecclesiastical History

Codex Theodosianus,15.4.1

AmbroseLetters 17 and 18

Augustine,Letter 29

Gregory I,Dialogues

Justinian,Codex,1.2.9.10

Asceticism

Athanasius,Life of Saint Anthony

Augustine,Confessions

Tertullian,On the Apparel of Women Church Order

Didaskalia Apostolorum

Codex Theodosianus,16.2.27

Augustine,Confessions

John Chrysostom,Letter to Olympias

Aetheria,The Pilgrimage of Etheria

Eusebius of Caesarea,The Ecclesiastical History

Irenaeus of Lyon,Against Heresies

Cyprian of Carthage,Letter 68 (64): To Florentius Pupianus, On Calumniators

Pope Leo I,Sermon 3: On the Anniversary of His Elevation to the Pontificate

Index of Names

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