Volker L. Menze - Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria: The Last Pharaoh and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire

Series includes scholarly volumes on the thought and history of the early Christian centuries. Covering a wide range of Greek, Latin, and Oriental sources, the books are of interest to theologians, ancient historians, and specialists in the classical and Jewish worlds.

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God and Christ in Irenaeus

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Augustines Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement

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The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils, ad 431451

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The Many Deaths of Peter and Paul

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Visions and Faces of the Tragic
The Mimesis of Tragedy and the Folly of Salvation in Early Christian Literature

Paul M. Blowers (2020)

Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors

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Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature
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David Lloyd Dusenbury (2021)

The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy

Stephen Blackwood (2022)

Clement and Scriptural Exegesis
The Making of a Commentarial Theologian

H. Clifton Ward (2022)

The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem
Inventing a Patron Martyr

Hugo Mndez (2022)

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