Philostorgius: Church History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781589832152)

Philostorgius (born 368 C.E.) was a member of the Eunomian sect of Christianity, a nonconformist faction deeply opposed to the form of Christianity adopted by the Roman government as the official religion of its empire. He wrote his twelve-book Church History, the critical edition of the surviving remnants of which is presented here in English translation, at the beginning of the fifth century as a revisionist history of the church and the empire in the fourth and early-fifth centuries. Sometimes contradicting and often supplementing what is found in other histories of the period, Christian or otherwise, it offers a rare dissenting picture of the Christian world of the time.

Author: Philostorgius
ISBN-10: 1589832159
ISBN-13: 9781589832152
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2007
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.76w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2008 pg. 90
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 27