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NPNF-211. Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian

NPNF-211. Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian

Philip Schaff (1819–1893) was a Swiss-born church historian who taught at Mercersburg and later at Union Theological Seminary in New York. A bridge between German scholarship and the English-speaking church, he founded the American Society of Church History and edited vast reference works. Our library's Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series — which he conceived and edited — together with his History of the Christian Church and Creeds of Christendom, came largely through his labors.

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First published
1886
Length
471k words · about 31 hours

About this book

A volume of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series, edited by Philip Schaff, gathering writings of Sulpicius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, and John Cassian. It brings together Severus's history and his life of Martin of Tours, Vincent's celebrated Commonitory on the apostolic faith, and Cassian's accounts of the monastic life and the practice of prayer in the Egyptian desert.

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