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Two Fragments from the Apology for Origen in the Church History of Socrates Scholasticus [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Theological Studies, 2005
The church historian Socrates (c.440) refers twice to the Apology for Origen, written by Pamphilus and Eusebius. In these passages he actually offers two fragments from now lost books of this work. It is, however, uncertain whether Socrates used the original version written by Pamphilus or a version reworked and interpolated by a later unknown ...
Van Nuffelen, Peter
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Socrates Scholasticus on Greek Paideia [PDF]

open access: yesActa Antiqua, 2005
In his discussion about the Biblical paraphrases written by the two Apolinarii Socrates Scholasticus claims that the study of pagan literature is necessary for the Christians. He starts by proving the harmlessness of studying Greek philosophy and comes to the conclusion that far from being harmful it is actually desirable, since familiarity with Greek ...
Farkas, Zoltán, Zoltán Farkas
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Robert W. Thomson, The Armenian Adaptation of the Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus

Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 2003
Abstract In Armenien stand von den Fortsetzungen des Eusebianischen Geschichtswerkes, die die Zeit von Konstantin I. bis in die erste Hälfte des 5. Jahrhunderts behandelten, also einen Zeitabschnitt, der für die Herausbildung der armenischen christlichen Theologie grundlegend war, nur die Kirchengeschichte des Sokrates Scholastikos in ...
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Interpreting Catastrophe: Disasters in the Works of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite, Socrates Scholasticus, Philostorgius, and Timothy Aelurus

Journal of Late Antiquity, 2009
This study examines four different fifth- and early sixth-century Christian authors (Pseudo-Joshua, Socrates Scholasticus, Philostorgius, and Timothy Aelurus). It then analyzes the biblically derived interpretative structures that each uses to explain fifth-century political catastrophes such as the decline of western Roman political power.
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Kairos and Cosmic Sympathy in the Church Historian Socrates Scholasticus

Church History, 1975
The concept of Fortune (Tychē) had lain at the very center of traditional pagan thought about history. Herodotus thought that the gods intervened in history to control the course of men's fortunes. His successor Thucydides completely rejected any notion of divine intervention in history, but nevertheless used the word tychē twenty-eight times in his ...
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