Theological Tractates

Name: Theological Tractates
Author: Boethius

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c. 480–524) was a Roman senator and philosopher of the early Middle Ages who served the Ostrogothic king Theodoric. Imprisoned and finally executed on suspicion of treason, he wrote The Consolation of Philosophy in his cell, a dialogue between himself and Lady Philosophy that became one of the most copied and translated books of the medieval West. Our library also carries his Theological Tractates.

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First published: 550
Category: Theology
Length: 20k words · about 1 hour
Chapters: 7
Modernized version: In the reader: the Original, the Modernized text in present-day English, or both side by side. On average, the Modernized text keeps about 92% of the original wording.
Narration: 🎧 Volunteer Readers

About this book

Five short theological treatises by Boethius, the sixth-century philosopher and statesman best known for The Consolation of Philosophy. In these tractates Boethius brings careful logic to questions about the Trinity, the person of Christ, and the nature of goodness. Brief but dense, they shaped the method of medieval theology for centuries.

Note on the Text
INTRODUCTION
The Trinity is One God Not Three Gods 🔒
Whether Father, Son, and Holy Spirit may be Substantially Predicated of the Divinity 🔒
How Substances can be Good in Virtue of their Existence Without Being Absolute Goods 🔒
On the Catholic Faith 🔒
A Treatise Against Eutyches and Nestorius 🔒