The Writings of Salvian, the Presbyter (The Fathers of the Church: a New Translation)

Salvian, a monk and priest of fifth-century Gaul, is best known for his treatise __De gubernatione Dei__, which excoriates the corruption among the aristocracy and the vices infecting all social classes, and which expresses the writer's faith in divine providence despite the pervasiveness of the evils that he observes. This work, together with nine letters and a pseudonymous treatise, __Ad Ecclesiam__, comprise the entire corpus of Salvian's extant writings, all of which are offered in English in this volume. Contents Introduction The Governance of God Letters The Four Books of Timothy to the Church Index