Scrinium Classical Antiquity

COCHRANE, C.N., Christianity and Classical Culture. A Study of Thought and Action from Augustus to Augustine. Oxford University Press, London (...), 1944. Rev. and corrected reprint original ed. VII,523p. Cloth. Spine discoloured. Cover a little bit stained. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper.'There can be little hesitation on the part of any conscientious student of this book in applauding Mr. Cochrane for a major contribution to the interpretation of Christianity’s conflict with and conquest of Greco-Roman political and religious philosophy. (…) It is all the more significant coming from the pen of a specialist in ‘classical’ literature and not a professed theologian.'(M.H. SHEPHERD in The Journal of Religion, 1941, p.480). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 30.00 (Antiquarian)

COCHRANE, C.N., Christianity and Classical Culture. A Study of Thought and Action from Augustus to Augustine. Oxford University Press, London (...), 1944. Rev. and corrected reprint original ed. VII,523p. Cloth. Spine discoloured. 'There can be little hesitation on the part of any conscientious student of this book in applauding Mr. Cochrane for a major contribution to the interpretation of Christianity’s conflict with and conquest of Greco-Roman political and religious philosophy. (…) It is all the more significant coming from the pen of a specialist in ‘classical’ literature and not a professed theologian.' (M.H. SHEPHERD in The Journal of Religion, 1941, p.480). € 38.50 (Antiquarian)

COLSON, J., La fonction diaconale aux origines de l'Église. Desclée de Brouwer, Brugge, 1960. 152p. Card board covers. Cover partly a bit yellowed. Else fine. Series: Textes et Études Théologiques. € 22.00 (Antiquarian)

CORTI, G., Lucifero di Cagliari. Una voce nel conflitto tra chiesa e impero alla metà del IV secolo. V&P Università, Milano, 2004. XVI,302p. Paperback. Series: Studia Patristica Mediolanensia 24. Nice copy. Lucifero, vescovo di Cagliari, è figura adamantina nel conflitto che vede schierati, alla metà del IV secolo, la chiesa occidentale da una parte e l’imperatore Costanzo, filo-ariano, dall’altra. In questo quadro così contrastato, in cui il potere temporale si scontra con quello spirituale arrogandosi funzioni decisionali e risolutive anche in ambito di fede, Lucifero si distingue come uomo di grande religiosità, intransigente e inflessibile, che mira al solo bene della chiesa. L’analisi puntuale e innovativa della figura del vescovo condotta da Giuseppe Corti, sullo sfondo di una ricostruzione attenta del contesto politico, sociale, culturale e religioso, evitando generalizzazioni e stereotipi, ne mette in luce i valori peculiari, quali la fedeltà rigorosa al credo niceno, il rifiuto del diritto di intervento dell’imperatore nelle scelte dottrinali della chiesa e l’esigenza di rimanere ancorati al magistero dei testi biblici. Lucifero, che già aveva ribadito la sue convinzioni in opere come De non conveniendo cum haereticis, De non parcendo in deum delinquentibus o l’epinicio del Moriendum esse pro dei filio, rappresenta a pieno la chiesa nella consapevolezza dottrinale e nella coscienza dei rischi di un rapporto troppo diretto e subordinato con l’imperatore. (Publisher's information). € 55.00 (Antiquarian)

CRAMER, Maria, Das christlich-koptische Ägypten einst und heute. Eine Orientierung. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1959. VIII,142,LXVIIIp. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Nice private green cloth binding. Spine gilt titled. € 40.00 (Antiquarian)

CROMARTIE, M., (ed.), Caesar's Coin Revisited. Christians and the Limits of Government. Ethics and Public Policy Center/Eerdmans, Washington/Grand Rapids, 1996. 197p. Paperback. € 17.00 (Antiquarian)

CROSS, F.L. (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press, London, 1957. XVIX,1492p. Cloth. € 26.50 (Antiquarian)

CRUCITTI, Esmeralda, Rome Pagan and Christian. The Persecutions. Statimari, Roma, 1979. Rev.ed. 214p. ills.(B&W photographs, line drawings and maps). Paperback. With errata leaflet loosely inserted. From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 8.00 (Antiquarian)

CUNNINGHAM, W., The Churches of Asia. A Methodical Sketch of the Second Century. MacMillan, London, 1880. XVI,299p. Cloth. Spine gilt stamped. Little bit rust stained. € 47.50 (Antiquarian)

DAEL, P.C.J. van, De Dode: een hoofdfiguur in de Oudchristelijke kunst. Een iconografische studie over de afbeelding van de dode in de oudchristelijke kunst. Academische Pers, Amsterdam, 1978. III,404p. Theses. Paperback. Diss. Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen. € 26.50 (Antiquarian)