Dialogue Against the Luciferians
Title | Dialogue Against the Luciferians PDF eBook |
Author | St. Jerome |
Publisher | Dalcassian Publishing Company |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2019-12-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1078752923 |
Saint Jerome was a Christian priest, confessor, theologian, and historian. He was born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia. He is best known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin, and his commentaries on the Gospels. His list of writings is extensive.
The Dialogue Against the Luciferians
Title | The Dialogue Against the Luciferians PDF eBook |
Author | St. St. Jerome |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | 26 |
Release | 2017-12-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781981636150 |
This Dialogue was written about 379, seven years after the death of Lucifer, and very soon after Jerome's return from his hermit life in the desert of Chalcis. Though he received ordination from Paulinus, who had been consecrated by Lucifer, he had no sympathy with Lucifer's narrower views, as he shows plainly in this Dialogue. Lucifer, who was bishop of Cagliari in Sardinia, first came into prominent notice about a.d. 354, when great efforts were being made to procure a condemnation of S. Athanasius by the Western bishops. He energetically took up the cause of the saint, and at his own request was sent by Liberius, bishop of Rome, in company with the priest Pancratius and the deacon Hilarius, on a mission to the Emperor Constantius. The emperor granted a Council, which met at Milan in a.d. 354. Lucifer distinguished himself by resisting a proposition to condemn Athanasius, and did not hesitate to oppose the emperor with much violence. In consequence of this he was sent into exile from a.d. 355 to a.d. 361, the greater portion of which time was spent at Eleutheropolis in Palestine, though he afterwards removed to the Thebaid. It was at this time that his polemical writings appeared, the tone and temper of which is indicated by the mere titles De Regibus Apostaticis (of Apostate Kings), De non Conveniendo cum H�reticis, etc. (of not holding communion with heretics). On the death of Constantius in 361, Julian permitted the exiled bishops to return; but Lucifer instead of going to Alexandria where a Council was to be held under the presidency of Athanasius for the healing of a schism in the Catholic party at Antioch (some of which held to Meletius, while others followed Eustathius), preferred to go straight to Antioch. There he ordained Paulinus, the leader of the latter section, as bishop of the Church. Eusebius of Vercell�; soon arrived with the synodal letters of the Council of Alexandria, but, finding himself thus anticipated, and shrinking from a collision with his friend, he retired immediately. Lucifer stayed, and "declared that he would not hold communion with Eusebius or any who adopted the moderate policy of the Alexandrian Council. By this Council it had been determined that actual Arians, if they renounced their heresy, should be pardoned, but not invested with ecclesiastical functions; and that those bishops who had merely consented to Arianism should remain undisturbed. It was this latter concession which offended Lucifer, and he became henceforth the champion of the principle that no one who had yielded to any compromise whatever with Arianism should be allowed to hold an ecclesiastical office." He was thus brought into antagonism with Athanasius himself, who, it has been seen, presided at Alexandria. Eventually he returned to his see in Sardinia where, according to Jerome's Chronicle, he died in 371. Luciferianism became extinct in the beginning of the following century, if not earlier. It hardly appears to have been formed into a separate organization, though an appeal was made to the emperor by some Luciferian presbyters about the year 384, and both Ambrose and Augustine speak of him as having fallen into the schism.
Documents from the Luciferians
Title | Documents from the Luciferians PDF eBook |
Author | Colin M. Whiting |
Publisher | SBL Press |
Total Pages | 372 |
Release | 2019-04-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0884143287 |
Six important documents for scholars of early church history This volume includes English translations of several documents concerning the Luciferians, a group of fourth-century Christians whose name derives from the bishop Lucifer of Cagliari. Documents include a confession of faith written for Emperor Theodosius I and a theological treatise written for his wife by Luciferian clergyman Faustinus, the first English translation of a Luciferian petition to Theodosius that focuses on the persecution the community has suffered, Theodosius’s imperial law in response to the Luciferians, two letters composed by Luciferians that purport to represent correspondence from the bishop Athanasius of Alexandria to Lucifer, and the priest Jerome’s Dialogus adversus Luciferianos. These texts highlight connections between developments in Christian theology and local Christian communities in the course of the fourth century. Features: The first English translation of Faustinus’s Libellus precum An overview of the development of late antique theology and Christianity An introduction to Luciferian beliefs and the translated texts
When He Has Come...
Title | When He Has Come... PDF eBook |
Author | Wiley B. Edmonds |
Publisher | Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 2021-05-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1098073355 |
After spending over half a century as pastor, evangelist, teacher, and businessman, the author has agonized over the lack of understanding by the average Christian on the "Big Story" behind their faith. He found Christians to be, for the most part, unaware of the ongoing battle in the spiritual dimension just beyond human sight. The forces of the armies of the Eternal God, led by the Holy Spirit, and the armies of the Satan, whose name is Lucifer, have relentlessly been fighting since man was only a concept in the mind of Eternal God. Eternal life for the human and his inheritance is at the core of that battle. Man's right to ascertain that inheritance and Lucifer's battle to stop it is the "Big Story" of the biblical narrative. The Holy Spirit, God's prima director of that war, invests His power in you to personally defeat Lucifer's hidden agenda. Embodied in the final words of Jesus at His ascension back to heaven is the promise of a personal empowering of the Holy Spirit, henceforth, to be made available to every believer as he bursts onto the scene at Pentecost. When He Has Come is the backstory of that relentless battle for eternal life.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
Title | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Schaff |
Publisher | Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | 564 |
Release | 2007-06-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1602065187 |
A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Jerome: Letters and select works, 1893
Title | A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Jerome: Letters and select works, 1893 PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Schaff |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 590 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Christian literature, Early |
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A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Jerome: Letters and select works. 1912
Title | A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Jerome: Letters and select works. 1912 PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Schaff |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 572 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Christian literature, Early |
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