Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue: The Theological Foundation of Ambrose's Ethics

by J. Warren Smith

Ambrose of Milan (340-397) was the first Christian bishop to write a systematic account of Christian ethics, in the treatise De Officiis, variously translated as "on duties" or "on responsibilities." But Ambrose also dealt with the moral life in other works, notably his sermons on the patriarchs and his addresses to catechumens and newly baptized. There is a vast modern literature on Ambrose, but only in recent decades has he begun to be taken...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195369939
• ISBN13: 9780195369939
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"