Author: Herbert Musurillo
Publisher: Paulist Press
Keywords: christian, writers, ancient, chastity, symposium, treatise, methodius
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1958-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0809101432
ISBN-13: 9780809101436

The Symposium, or Banquet, is a dialogue in imitation of Plato, written by Methodius, a teacher and probably a bishop, who flourished in Lycia during the period known as the Little Peace of the Church. It is perhaps the most beautiful symbolic prose-poem of the early patristic period.

Authors:Reverend Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson,
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: writings, fathers, part, fourteen, translations, christian, methodius, ante, nicene, library
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2004-06-25
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 1417922885
ISBN-13: 9781417922888

1869. Part Fourteen of Twenty-four. The translations of the writings of the early Church writers from the time of Christ till the Council of Nicea in 325 into English, known as the Ante-Nicene Library. Contents of Volume Fourteen: The Writings of Methodius, Alexander of Lycopolis, Peter of Alexandria, and several fragments by Clement of Rome; Theognostus of Alexandria; Pierius of Alexandria; Malchion, a Presbyter of the Church of Antioch; Anatolius of Alexandria, Bishop of Laodicea, in Syria; Theonas, Bishop of Alexandria; Phileas, Bishop of Thmuis and Martyr; and Pamphilus, Presbyter of the C

Author: Reverend Alexander Roberts
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: fathers, minor, dinysius, writers, methodius, arnobius, thaumaturgus, century, writings, nicene, volume, third, ante, gregory
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1602064792
ISBN-13: 9781602064799

"One of the first great events in Christian history was the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, convened to organize Christian sects and beliefs into a unified doctrine. The great Christian clergymen who wrote before this famous event are referred to as the Ante-Nicenes and the Apostolic Fathers, and their writings are collected here in a ten-volume set. The Ante-Nicenes lived so close to the time of Christ that their interpretations of the New Testament are considered more authentic than modern voices. But they are also real and flawed men, who are more like their fellow Christians than they are lik