Marius Victorinus

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Marius Victorinus. See VICTORINUS AFER.
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	Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. New Testament VIII: Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians.(Review) ; ...most important letters and we have here in translation the words of Jerome, Origen, Augustine, John Chrysostom, Theodoret, Marius Victorinus and Theodore of Mopsuestia. After almost 1700 years it is remarkably refreshing to read what scholars and churchmen saw... Read more
	Mario Vittorino esegeta di S. Paolo ; ...Palermo: L'e os, 1996). Pp. 179. Paper L 32.000. Most biblical scholars and many historical theologians have encountered Marius Victorinus, if at all, in the pages of Augustine's Confessions. In Conf 8.2, Augustine tells us the story of Victorinus: he was a... Read more
	Augustine's Commentary on Galatians: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Notes ; ...commentary. It is also the only book to receive similar attention from all the other ancient Latin commentators, including Marius Victorinus, Ambrosiaster, Jerome, and Pelagius. Eric Plumer exploits this coincidence of attention nicely by analyzing the interrelations... Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...Middle Ages. In addition to articles on the Aristoteles Latinus (and Plato Latinus) and on individual translators (including Marius Victorinus, Ambrose, Eustathius, Rufinus, Constantinus Africanus, Johannes Hispanus, Gerard of Cremona, Michael Scot, William Moerbeke... Read more
	Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom ; ...of the Eastern tradition. The Wests trajectory after Plotinus goes through the anonymous commentator on the Parmenides, Marius Victorinus, Augustine, and ultimately Thomas Aquinas. The most important development to occur in the West was the association between... Read more
	NEOPLATONIC ORIGINS OF THE ACT OF BEING.(Critical Essay) ; ...lost), and had therefore to be reconstructed--in a very different way--by Aquinas. The central figure in this story is Marius Victorinus, a Christian Neoplatonist of the fourth century. Before turning to Victorinus, I would like to look briefly at another... Read more
	Gaukroger, Stephen. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture; Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685.(Book review) ; ...Aristotelian metaphysics had been employed by the early Church Fathers as they interpreted the texts of the Gospel. Justin Martyr, Marius Victorinus, and Clement of Alexandria recognized that Aristotelian natural philosophy, while not intrinsically Christian was nevertheless... Read more
	Saint Hilary of Poitiers.(FATHERS OF THE CHURCH XI)(Biography) ; ...Council of Seleucia (359) that Constantius, fearing his influence, recalled him in 360. On The Trinity, the first (along with Marius Victorinus') extensive Western exposition, argues the consubstantiality of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, with due emphasis on the divine... Read more
	Augustine. On the Trinity, Books 8-15.(Book Review) ; ...about God as well as beyond other theologians who set out to elucidate the Trinity (for example, Hilary of Poitiers and Marius Victorinus). Matthews's introduction pays special attention to the influence Augustine played on later thought. For example, DT 8... Read more
	Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide. ; ...Augustine's knowledge of Greek philosophy (mainly Plato) is derived from Cicero (255) and his knowledge of Platonist philosophy (that is, Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus) probably all from Marius Victorinus's translations (257). O'Daly is right in Read more

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