St. Dionysius of Alexandria

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Author

Dionysius, of Alexandria, Saint, -265

Title

St. Dionysius of Alexandria: Letters and Treatises

Credits

Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

BR: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity

Subject

Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Sources

Category

Text

eBook-No.

36539

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36539

Release Date

June 27, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ST. DIONYSIUS OF ALEXANDRIA LETTERS AND TREATISES
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION — His Family and Earlier Life — His Conversion — Was He Married or Not? — He becomes Head of the Catechetical School — He becomes Bishop of Alexandria — Under the Persecution of Decius — His Action about Heretical Baptism — Under the Persecution of Valerian — Restoration of Peace — His Return to Alexandria — The Troubles Connected with his Protest against Sabellianism — Dionysius’s Last Days — Dionysius as Author — As Christian Philosopher — General Characteristics of his Writings — Dionysius as Interpreter of Scripture — His Place in the Church Kalendar — Concluding Remarks — Bibliography
5. 5.LETTERS — To Fabian, Bishop of Antioch (Eus., H. E. vi. 41, 42, and 44) — To Germanus a Bishop (Eus., H. E. vi. 40 and vii. 11) — ( To Novatian ) (Eus., H. E. vi. 45) — To Cornelius, Bishop of Rome, in Reply to a Letter from him about Novatian (circ. 253) — To Stephanus, Bishop of Rome (Eus., H. E. vii. 4 and 5) ( The First of the Epistles about Baptism ) — To Xystus (or Sixtus) II [80] (Eus., H. E. vii. 5, 3-6) ( The second on the same subject ) — To Philemon (Eus., H. E. vii. 7) ( The third on the same subject ) — To Dionysius of Rome (Eus., H. E. vii. 7, 6 and 8) ( The fourth letter on Baptism ) — To Xystus (Sixtus) II, Bishop of Rome (Eus., H. E. vii. 9) ( The fifth about Baptism ) — To Conon [106] (Pitra, Spic. Sol. i. 15, from a Bodl. MS. dated 1062) — From the Writings about Repentance (Mai, Class. Auct. x. 484, from a Vat. MS.) — To Domitius and Didymus (Eus., H. E. vii. 11) ( Part of an Easter Letter ) — To Hermammon (Eus., H. E. vii. 1, 10, 23) ( Part of another Easter Letter ) — To the Brethren in Alexandria (Eus., H. E. vii. 22) ( Part of another Easter Letter ) — To Hierax an Egyptian Bishop (Eus., H. E. vii. 21) ( Part of another Easter Letter ) — ( From another Easter Letter ) — To Basilides, Bishop of the Churches in the Pentapolis (Cyrenaica)
6. 6.TREATISES — “ On the Promises ” (Eus., H. E. vii. 24 and 25) — “ On Nature ” (Eus., Præp. Evang. xiv. 23-7) — “Refutation and Defence” (Eus., Præp. Evang. vii. 19)
7. 7.Additional Note to p. 12 .
8. 8.FOOTNOTES
9. 9.INDEX
10. 10.TRANSLATIONS OF CHRISTIAN LITERATURE — SERIES I.—GREEK TEXTS. — SERIES II.—LATIN TEXTS. — SERIES III.—LITURGICAL TEXTS. Edited by C. L. FELTOE, D.D.
11. 11.Transcriber’s Notes

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