The Ante Nicene Fathers Hippolytus Cyprian Caius Novatian Appendix

Author : Alexander Roberts
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333231378
Total Pages : 712 pages
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Download or read book The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 5 written by Alexander Roberts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 5: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A. D. 325; Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix Thus, Hippolytus, once torn to pieces as by horses, in his works, if not in his person, comes to life again in our times, to shed new light upon the history of Latin Christianity, and to show that Rome had no place nor hand in its creation. He appears as a. Greek Father in a church. Which was yet a Greek colony 3 2 and he shows to what an estate of feebleness and humiliation the Roman Church had been brought, probably by the neglect of preaching, which is an anomaly in its history, and hardly less probably by its adherence to a Greek liturgy long after the Chris tians of Rome had ceased to understand Greek familiarly. At such a moment Hippolytus proves himself a reformer. His historical elucidations of the period, therefore, 'form an admirable introduction to Cyprian, and will explain the entire independence of Roman dictation, with which he maintained his own opinions against that Church and its bishops. And lastly we have Novatian as a sequel to the works of Cyprian; and truly, the light upon his sad history is duplicated by what Hippolytus shows us of the times and circumstances which made his schism possible, and which somewhat relieve his character from its darker shades. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.