Center For Early African Christianity Inc : 2 books
The True Church
Retrieving a North African Sermon on the Songs of Songs
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
In this mini-monograph, David Wilhite offers a sustained analysis of the Donatist bishop of Carthage Parmenian's sermon on the Song of Songs as it survives in Optatus of Milevis' reading of it. The sermon itself invoked imagery from the Song of Songs to attribute theological meaning to the material...
Letter to Marcellinus on the Psalms
Spiritual Wisdom for Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
A Classic of Ancient Christian Spirituality. In this letter to a friend, Athanasius of Alexandria (ca. 298-373) offers spiritual guidance on how to read the psalms. Athanasius believed that the Psalms were divinely inspired, which is why they are so helpful to the human soul. He describes the Psalter...