Writings; Commonitories; Grace and Free Will (Fathers of the Church Patristic Series)

Two friends of St. Paulinus of Nola introduce this miscellaneous volume. Niceta, a bishop in what is now Yugoslavia, offers five mainly pastoral works, while Sulpicius Severus, from South France, gives us in the Life of St. Martin and in the related Letters and Dialogues the basic story of the ever appealing third bishop of Tours. South France is again the source of the two remaining works here offered, the writings of two contemporaries who in some points took opposing views on the spread of St. Augustine's theology, Vincent opposing some parts of it, Prosper espousing it. Vincent's Commonitories contain the famous threefold test of Catholicity: "what has been believed everywhere, always, and by all." Contents Niceta of Remesiana Introduction The Names and Titles of Our Saviour An Instruction on Faith The Power of the Holy Spirit An Explanation of the Creed The Vigils of the Saints Liturgical Singing Sulpicius Severus Introduction Life of Saint Martin, Bishop and Confessor The Letter to Eusebius (Epist. 1) The Letter to the Deacon Aurelius (Epist. 2) The Letter to Bassula (Epist. 3) The First Dialogue The Second Dialogue The Third Dialogue Appendix: St. Martin and the Condemnation of Priscillian Vincent of Lerins Introduction The Commonitories Prosper of Aquitaine Introduction Grace and Free Will Index