Demonstrative Proof in Defence of God: A Study of Titus of Bostraâ s Contra Manichaeos â The Workâ s Sources, Aims and Relation to its Contemporary Theology (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 56)

Pedersen, Nils Arne

ISBN 10: 9004138838 / ISBN 13: 9789004138834

Published by Brill, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Demonstrative Proof in Defence of God: A Study of Titus of Bostraâ s Contra Manichaeos â The Workâ s Sources, Aims and Relation to its Contemporary Theology (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 56)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004138838
• ISBN 13: 9789004138834
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

This volume is the first extensive study of a Christian work from the 4th century, Titus of Bostra’s Contra Manichaeos, which is the only text from the early Greek Church setting out a comprehensive theodicy.
The study illuminates the text’s relation to contemporary theology and philosophy and interprets it in the light of the ideological conflicts between pagans, Catholic Christians and Manichaeans in the 4th century. It includes an examination of the possible Manichaean sources used by Titus, and, furthermore, a critical text study and translation of central passages in Contra Manichaeos, based both on the Greek text and the Syriac version of it.

About the Author

Nils Arne Pedersen, Dr. Theol. (1996), University of Aarhus (Denmark), is Associate Professor of Church History. He has published on Patristics and Manichaeism including Studies in The Sermon on the Great War (Aarhus University Press, 1996) and Manichaean Homilies (Brepols).