Table Of ContentTHE FATHERS
OF THE CHURCH
A NEW TRANSLATION
VOLUME 133
THE FATHERS
OF THE CHURCH
A NEW TRANSLATION
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RUFINUS OF
AQUILEIA
HISTORY OF THE
CHURCH
Translated by
PHILIP R. AMIDON, SJ
Creighton University
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
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Church History of Rufinus of Aquileia, Books 10 and 11 Translated
with notes by Philip R. Amidon, S.J. (1997) extracts (c.27,000w)
from pp. vii–xii & 3–112
By Permission of Oxford University Press
© 1997 by Philip Amidon
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea,
approximately 260–approximately 340, author. | Rufinus,
of Aquileia, 345–410. | Amidon,
Philip R., writer of added commentary, translator.
Title: History of the church / Rufinus of Aquileia ; translated
by Philip R.Amidon, SJ, Creighton University.
Other titles: Ecclesiastical history. English
Description: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of
America Press, [2016] | Series: The Fathers of the church,
a new translation ; volume 133 | Translated into English from
Rufinus’s Latin translation; originally written in Greek. |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016022644 | ISBN 9780813229027
(cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Church history—Primitive and early church,
ca. 30–600.
Classification: LCC BR160.E5 E5 2016 | DDC 270.1—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016022644
CONTENTS
Abbreviations vii
Bibliography xi
Introduction
Introduction 3
I. Life and Works of Rufinus 3
II. The History of the Church 7
History of the Church
Preface of Rufinus 19
Book One 21
Book Two 60
Book Three 97
Book Four 141
Book Five 183
Book Six 233
Book Seven 282
Book Eight 320
Book Nine 349
Preface of Rufinus to the Continuation 377
Book Ten 378
Book Eleven 432
Indices
Index of Names 485
Index of Holy Scripture 507
ABBREVIATIONS
AAAd Antichità altoadriatiche
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt
Antiq. Josephus, Antiquitates Iudaicae
Athan., Dokument Athanasius Werke 3.1: Dokumente zur Geschichte
des arianischen Streites, ed. Christoph
Brennecke, Uta Heil, et al. Berlin: De Gruyter,
2007
Baldini A . Baldini, “Problemi della tradizione sulla
‘distruzione’ del Serapeo di Alessandria,”
Rivista storica dell’antichità 15 (1985): 97–152
Barnes T . D. Barnes, Athanasius and Constantius.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993
Bellum Josephus, Bellum Iudaicum
CAH The Cambridge Ancient History, London:
Cambridge University Press, 1970
CCL Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina
CSEL C orpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum
Latinorum
C.Th. Codex Theodosianus
Cassian, Coll. John Cassian, Collationes
DEC Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, ed.
N. P. Tanner. London: Sheed and Ward, 1990
DHGE Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie
ecclésiastiques
DMP De mortibus persecutorum
Elliott J. K. Elliott, The Apocryphal New Testament.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1993
vii
viii ABBREVIATIONS
EOMIA Ecclesiae Occidentalis Monumenta Iuris
Antiquissima, ed. C. H. Turner. Oxford:
Clarendon, 1899–1939
Epiphanius, Pan. Epiphanius, Panarion
Eusebius, HE Eusebius, Church History
Eusebius, Vit. Const. Eusebius, Life of Constantine
FIRA Fontes iuris romani anteiustiniani, ed. Riccobono,
Baviera, et al. Florence: 1940–43
GCS Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller
Hefele-Leclercq C. J. Hefele and H. Leclercq, Histoire des
conciles d’après les documents originaux. Paris:
Letouzey, 1907–52
HM Historia monachorum
JECS Journal of Early Christian Studies
Jones A. H. M. Jones, The Later Roman Empire.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1964
JRS Journal of Roman Studies
JTS Journal of Theological Studies
Kelly, Popes J. N. D. Kelly, Oxford Dictionary of the Popes.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1986
LXX Septuagint
Paschoud F rançois Paschoud, Zosime. Histoire nouvelle.
Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1971–89
PG Patrologia Graeca (Migne)
Philostorgius Philostorgius, Church History
PL Patrologia Latina (Migne)
PLRE P rosopography of the Later Roman Empire,
ed. Jones, Martindale, and Morris.
Cambridge: University Press, 1971–92
PW Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopädie der klassischen
Altertumswissenschaft
RAC Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum
Schürer Emil Schürer, The History of the Jewish People
in the Age of Jesus Christ, revised by Geza
Vermes, Fergus Millar, and Martin Goodman.
Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1973–87
ABBREVIATIONS ix
Schwartz E duard Schwartz, Gesammelte Schriften.
Berlin: De Gruyter, 1938–63
Schwartz/Mommsen E duard Schwartz and Theodor Mommsen,
eds., Eusebius Werke 2. Die Kirchengeschichte.
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999
SHA Scriptores historiae augustae
Socrates Socrates, Church History
Sozomen Sozomen, Church History
Thelamon, PC Françoise Thelamon, Païens et chrétiens au
IVe siècle. Paris: Études augustiniennes, 1981
Theodoret, HE Theodoret, Church History
TU Texte und Untersuchungen
ZAC Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum
Zecchini Giuseppe Zecchini, “Barbari e romani in
Rufino di Concordia,” AAAd 31.2 (1987):
29–60
ZKG Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte
ZNW Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
und die Kunde des Urchristentums
