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Lucius Caecilius Firmianus signo Lactantius (c. 250 – c. 325) was an early Christian author who became an advisor to Roman emperor Constantine I, guiding his Christian religious policy in its initial stages of emergence, [1] and a tutor to his son Crispus.
Mar 20, 2024 · Lactantius was a Christian apologist and one of the most reprinted of the Latin Church Fathers, whose Divinae institutiones (“Divine Precepts”), a classically styled philosophical refutation of early-4th-century anti-Christian tracts, was the first systematic Latin account of the Christian attitude.
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Nov 26, 2019 · A comprehensive overview of the life and works of Lactantius, a Christian Latin author and tutor of Constantine the Great. Find introductions, translations, commentaries, and bibliographies on his apologetic, historical, and philosophical writings.
Lactantius argues that God has emotions and anger in his treatise De ira Dei, contrasting with Eusebius' impassible God. He uses Latin rhetorical discourse and biblical texts to defend Christianity against pagan critics and persecutors.
Lactantius was a Latin apologist and tutor of Constantine in the 4th century A.D. He wrote several treatises and poems on Christian doctrine, philosophy, and history, some of which are available online.
Institutiones Divinae (Classical Latin: [ĩːstɪtuːtiˈoːneːs diːˈwiːnae̯], Ecclesiastical Latin: [institutsiˈones diˈvine]; The Divine Institutes) is the name of a theological work by the Christian Roman philosopher Lactantius, written between AD 303 and 311.
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In this work Lactantius attacks paganism and philosophy; discusses Christianity, justice, true worship, and true religion; and deals extensively with eschatology. In pursuing his goal, the union of true religion and true wisdom, possible only in Christianity, he makes little use of Scripture but relies on pagan prophets, such as the sibylline ...
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