Pelagius's Commentary on St Paul's Epistle to the Romans

ISBN-13: 9780198143994 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 248 str.

Theodore De Bruyn;Pelagius; Theodore De Bruyn

Opis

The Pelagian controversy has secured an enduring place for Pelagius in the history of Western Christian thought. Few of Pelagius' writings, however, have been preserved, and until recently none was available in English translation. This volume presents Pelagius' commentary on Romans for the first time in English. The commentary, one of thirteen on the Pauline epistles, dates from the time when Pelagius was active in Rome, before he became embroiled in controversy, but already there are adumbrations of the later debate and signs of different currents of thought in Italy and beyond. In his introduction Theodore de Bruyn discusses the context in which Pelagius wrote the commentary and the issues which shaped his interpretation of Romans. He also takes up questions about the edition of the commentary. The translation is annotated with references to Pelagius' contemporaries, and a new recension of Pelagius' text of Romans is presented in an appendix.

Recenzje

Theodore de Bruyn has provided a translation of an unquestionalbly genuine work, the first of Pelagius' Pauline commentaries, that on Romans, thus enabling the reader with no Latin to hear Pelagius' authentic voice. The introduction is usefully informative and concise ... this is a most attractively presented and most useful book.