Selected Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 95)
Publication Year: 2010
Published by: The Catholic University of America Press
Series: The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation
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Acknowledgments
Fulgentius, as an author of the sixth century, makes use of earlier authors. The translator wishes to acknowledge the use of the following translations of authors cited by Fulgentius and to thank the publishers for their permission to use them. To Liturgical Press, for permission to use the translation of Augustine’s “Sermon 272” ...
Introduction
Fulgentius, bishop of Ruspe (c. 467–532), considered the greatest North African theologian after the time of Augustine (died 430), did not possess an original mind, but he propagated and defended the Augustinian heritage against the adversaries of the day, notably, Arians and Pelagians (or at least semi-Pelagians). ...
Selected Works
The Life of the Blessed Bishop Fulgentius
The question of the authorship of The Life of the Blessed Bishop Fulgentius remains a matter of dispute. No manuscript of the work indicates the Carthaginian deacon Ferrandus as the author. Yet this was the hypothesis of the seventeenth-century Jesuit scholar and editor of Fulgentius, Pierre-François Chifflet,1 ...
To Peter on the Faith
This is probably the most popular of the works of Fulgentius, a relative term, to be sure. In the Middle Ages, it was widely attributed to St. Augustine. In the twentieth century, it has been translated into French, German, Italian, and Polish. Peter, probably a layman, intended to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. ...
On the Forgiveness of Sins
At the request of Euthymius, a pious layman, Fulgentius produced this treatise during his second period of exile in Sardinia (c. 517–523). It may well rank among the most repetitive of his works. Surprisingly, it does not discuss technical questions about the system of canonical penance then prevalent, though perhaps little used, in the Church. ...
To Monimus
This work too is the product of Fulgentius’s second exile in Sardinia c. 517–23. While it is not ranked among the letters, it is not essentially different in form from some of the later letters translated in this volume, lengthy and devoted to doctrinal questions submitted by a correspondent. Monimus is otherwise unknown. ...
The Letters of Fulgentius
The first seven letters of Fulgentius deal with questions of spirituality. It is probable that the letters given here are the sole remaining examples of other letters written to the same correspondents. Letters 8 to 14, on the other hand, are primarily concerned with doctrinal issues, especially, of course, of the doctrines at issue with the Arian Vandals. ...
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E-ISBN-13: 9780813211954
Print-ISBN-13: 9780813200958
Page Count: 601
Publication Year: 2010
Series Title: The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation
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