Resultados9 letters/passages
salvian_marseille · c. 450 · score 0.02
To the most holy Lord Salonius, bishop of Geneva, from Salvian, greetings. The question you raise about the relationship between divine providence and human freedom in the context of the barbarian catastrophe is one I have been wrestling with in the work I am currently writing, and I want to share my current thinking. …
salvian_marseille · c. 450 · score 0.02
To the most holy and blessed Lord Eucherius, bishop of Lyon, from Salvian, greetings. The theme that runs through all my thinking in these years — the collapse of the Roman world and what it means for those who believed that Rome and Christianity had been providentially united — is one that I know you have also been wr …
salvian_marseille · c. 450 · score 0.02
To the most holy Lord Agrycius, from Salvian, greetings. The state of the Gallic church in this time of upheaval is something I want to discuss with you plainly, because I think we are both aware of things that are not being said enough in the public discourse of the church. The nominalism is the problem. We have a lar …
salvian_marseille · c. 450 · score 0.02
To the most holy Eucherius, from Salvian, Your response to my last letter was characteristically generous and characteristically penetrating, and I want to engage with the objection you raised. You suggest that my argument — that the Roman world's disasters are divine judgment on its sins — risks making God look like a …
salvian_marseille · c. 450 · score 0.02
To my beloved parents Hypatius and Quieta, from Salvian, Your letter arrived and I read it with the pain that comes from knowing that you are suffering and that I am, in some sense, the cause of your suffering. I want to respond as honestly and clearly as I can. You ask how we could give away property that was, in part …
salvian_marseille · c. 450 · score 0.02
Salvian, servant of God and of the brethren, to the holy monks of Lerins, greetings. The monastery of Lerins has shaped the Christian life of Gaul more than any single institution in our time, and I write partly out of genuine reverence and partly because I have a question I want to think through with men who know the …
salvian_marseille · c. 450 · score 0.01
To my most honored parents Hypatius and Quieta, from Salvian and Palladia their children, greetings. We know that our decision — to adopt the ascetic life, to distribute our property to the poor, and to commit ourselves to the service of God in poverty — has caused you pain and anger. We have not written sooner because …
salvian_marseille · c. 450 · score 0.01
To my most beloved brother Timothy [a name used as a cover, perhaps after the biblical Timothy; Salvian was concerned that attributing the work to himself would distract from its message]: You have asked me to explain why I wrote the work called Ad Ecclesiam under your name rather than my own, and the explanation is si …
salvian_marseille · c. 450 · score 0.01
To my dear parents in the bonds of love if not always in the bonds of agreement, from Salvian, I write this third letter in the hope that it may be the one that produces, if not agreement, at least a measure of understanding. The life Palladia and I have chosen is not an easy one. We are not living in comfort while you …