Studies on Ancient Christianity

Henry Chadwick is Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK

• Contents: Preface; Bishops and monks; The Gospel a republication of natural religion in Justin Martyr; Christian and Roman universalism in the 4th century; The authorship of Egerton papyrus no. 3; Origen, Celsus and the resurrection of the body; Donatism and the Confessions of Augustine; On re-reading the Confessions; Augustine and Almachius; History and symbolism in the garden at Milan; New sermons of St Augustine; Providence and the problem of evil in Augustine; Self-justification in Augustine's Confessions; Augustine's ethics; The mind of Olympiodorus, Deacon of Alexandria; Gregory the Great and the mission to the Anglo-Saxons; Review article on the Sixth Council; Symbol and reality: Berengar and the appeal to the Fathers; Theodore of Tarsus and monotheletism; Some ancient anthologies and florilegia, pagan and Christian; Conscience in ancient thought; Humanity in ancient writers, pagan and Christian; The originality of early Christian ethics; Disagreement and the ancient Church; The calendar: sanctification of time; Index.

’The breadth and confidence of Chadwick's scholarship are as striking as ever, and the text is enlivened by contemporary asides.’ Church Times