Philostorgius
Subtitle: Church History (Writings from the Greco-Roman World)
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: November 14, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781589832152
Subjects: Christianity; Religion; Religion - Church History; Christian Church - History; Christianity - History - General; Religion & Spirituality; Religion / Church History; Religion : Christian Church - History; Church history; Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Description: "Philostorgius (born 368 C.E.) was a member of the Eunomian sect of Christianity, a nonconformist faction deeply opposed to the form of Christianity adopted by the Roman government as the official religion of its empire. He wrote his twelve-book Church History, the critical edition of the surviving remnants of which is presented here in English translation, at the beginning of the fifth century as a revisionist history of the church and the empire in the fourth and early-fifth centuries. Sometimes contradicting and often supplementing what is found in other histories of the period, Christian or otherwise, it offers a rare dissenting picture of the Christian world of the time."--