#St. cyprian viva mas trial

148)Ĭlaudio Moreschini writes, 'It was probably in 248-249 that Cyprian made a collection of biblical passages, the Testimonia, relating to central problems of Christian teaching. Among the Carthaginian clergy, on the other hand, there was until 253 a noticeable opposition centered on five presbyters who had been passed over in the episcopal election.' ( Dictionary of Early Christianity, p. 5), which evidently supported the influential, wealthy, and charitable convert as its patronus. His quick rise seems to have been due especially to the community ( ep. After baptism and, with it, the abandonment of his previous activity as well as the distribution of a large part of his personal property, Cyprian soon became a presbyter and in 248/249 a bishop. Under the influence of the presbyter Caecilian he turned to Christianity in his early to mid-forties (Pontius, Vita Cypr. 67), after the usual rhetorical training he worked as a teacher of oratory (or an orator) he may perhaps also have aimed at a career as administrator or even have begun it.

#St. cyprian viva mas trial

His high level of education, considerable wealth, friends in the equestrian and senatorial classes, the degree to which he was known in Carthage, and his treatment as an honestior at his trial all suggest that his family belonged to the leading circles of Carthage and that he was at least of the equestrian class. 3)-was probably born at the beginning of the 3rd c. Hoffman writes, 'Caecilius Cyprianus, also named Thascius ( ep. Recommended Books for the Study of Early Christian Writings Information on CyprianĪ.

Johannes Quasten, Patrology (4 Volume Set), Vol.

Claudio Moreschini and Enrico Norelli, Early Christian Greek and Latin Literature, Vol.

Siegmar Döpp and Wilhelm Geerlings, Dictionary of Early Christian Literature, pp.

Lewis Ayres, Frances Young, and Andrew Louth, Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature, pp.

Dictionary of African Christian Biography: Cyprian.

Cyprian, Donatism, Augustine, and Augustana VIII: Remarks on the Church and the Validity of Sacraments.

Book Review: Cyprian and Roman Carthage.

Cyprian and Tertullian on the Lord's Prayer.

The Lord's Supper in the Theology of Cyprian of Carthage.

Cyprian, Augustine, and the Donatist Schism.

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