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Hilary of Poitiers' Preface to His Opus Historicum: Translation and Commentary

by P. Smulders S. J.

  • Hardback
  • 186 pages
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 16.6 x 24.6 x 2.3 cm

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For church historians and patristic scholars

Helps you understand the bishop's inner freedom

Unlocks lost doctrinal insights from the past

A detailed translation and commentary on the preface to Hilary of Poitiers' historical works.

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What precisely does Hilary's so-called Opus Historicum aim at? His Preface provides the clue. An introduction to the present edition sketches the mutilated work's discovery, tabulates its contents, and discusses problems of dating and authenticity. The English translation, which faces the Latin text, adopts some alternative readings. The Preface is elucidated in itself, and by reference to the earlier In Matthaeum. Central issues are hope and love, confessors and martyrs, imperial favours and threats, the bishop and his inner freedom. The circumspect treatment of both the reader and the subject reveals 'conscientization' of the bishops as the aim of the Opus Historicum. One of the book's excurses deals with the edict of Arles and Milan, and concludes that the nameless creed quoted by Hilary might preserve the lost edict's doctrinal preliminaries.

  • Title

    Hilary of Poitiers' Preface to His Opus Historicum: Translation and Commentary

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    November 1994

  • Weight

    509g

  • Page Count

    186

  • Dimensions

    16.6 x 24.6 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004101913

  • ISBN-10

    9004101918

  • Eden Code

    4708468