Leontius of Byzantium - Complete Works

This work is a critical edition of the works of sixth-century theologian, Leontius of Byzantium.

List of contents

• INTRODUCTION


• I: The Author and his Times


• II: The Works


• A. The Six Treatises


• B. The Florilegia


• III: Leontius the Theologian


• IV: The Manuscripts


• V: The Scholia


• VI: Earlier Editions


• VII: This Edition


• VIII: Select Bibliography


• Key to the apparatus of Leontius's Florilegia


• Abbreviations


• TEXT AND TRANSLATION


• 1: Contra Nestorianos et Eutychianos (¿¿¿öa')


• Appendix I (Scholion)


• Appendix II (Scholion)


• 2: Epilyseis (= Solutiones Argumentorum Severi)


• 3: Epapor¿mata (= Triginta Capita contra Severum)


• 4: Contra Aphthartodocetas (¿¿¿öß')


• 5: Deprenhensio et Triumphus super Nestorianos (¿¿¿¿¿¿')


• 6: Adversus Fraudes Apollinaristarum


• 7: Fragmenta Incerta


• Appendix III (Excerpta Leontina)


• Appendix IV (Tabular comparison of extracts in Leontius s florilegia with those in other ancient and medieval florilegia)

About the author

Brian E. Daley, SJ, is Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a historical theologian, who specializes in the study of the early Church, particularly the development of Christian doctrine from the fourth to the eighth centuries. His publications include Light on the Mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord (St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2013) and Hope of the Early Church: A Handbook of Patristic Eschatology (Baker, 2002). In 2014, he co-edited The Harp of Prophecy: Early Christian Interpretation of the Psalms with Paul R. Kolbet (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014).

Summary

This work is a critical edition of the works of sixth-century theologian, Leontius of Byzantium.

Additional text

Brian Daley has provided an invaluable gift for those interested in early Christian studies and the Christological debates of the fifth century.

Product details

• Authors: SJ Daley
• Assisted by: SJ Daley (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780192846808
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284680-8
• No. of pages: 640
• Series: Oxford Early Christian Texts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, History of Religion, Biography: religious & spiritual, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Biography: religious and spiritual, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, The Early Church