Theological Tractates
Author: first_name:  Anicius Manlius Severinus
last_name: Boethius
Language: English
Year: 1918

It was in the last dozen years of his life that Boethius wrote on a vastly different topic, or what one might imagine a vastly different topic, namely, theology. There are preserved under his name four brief but pithy letters, addressed, one to Symmachus and the rest to a mutual friend, John the Deacon, dealing with theological subjects of great contemporary importance. That to Symmachus is entitled "How that the Trinity is one God and not three Gods", and presents a specially vigorous criticism