The Use of the Latin Bible in the Early Church
Paul Mattei
Abstract Abstract: The use of the Bible is more than simply application hermeneutic principles and exegetical techniques, or literary genres within which these are deployed. This chapter offers a broad account presence Scripture intellectual religious life Latin Christians in antiquity. chronological scope from beginnings Christian literature to time Bede. may be divided into three stages: Antenicene period, with its major personalities Tertullian, Cyprian, Lactantius; zenith, Nicaea Chalcedon, marked by great Christological Trinitarian controversies, individuals such as Hilary Poitiers, Ambrose Milan, Jerome Stridon, Augustine Hippo (and especially De doctrina christiana); inheritance, teachers Cassiodorus, Gregory Great, Isidore Seville, Bede, who lead dawn Carolingian age. perspective taken necessarily selective, focussing on most important examples.
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