Author
Boethius
480–524
Late Roman philosopher, theologian, statesman, and a principal transmitter of ancient philosophy to the medieval Latin West.
Works
Texts currently available in the library.
The Consolation of Philosophy
524Boethius's prison dialogue with Lady Philosophy on fortune, happiness, providence, freedom, and divine foreknowledge.
Against Eutyches and Nestorius
Boethius's Christological treatise defining person and nature against the opposed errors of Eutyches and Nestorius.
How Substances Can Be Good in Virtue of Their Existence Without Being Absolute Goods
The tractate commonly called De hebdomadibus, on how created beings are good without being goodness itself.
On the Catholic Faith
A concise exposition of creation, the Trinity, the Incarnation, redemption, and Christian hope.
The Trinity Is One God, Not Three Gods
Boethius's logical and metaphysical account of how the three divine persons are one God.
Whether Father, Son, and Holy Spirit May Be Substantially Predicated of the Divinity
A short treatment of substantial and relative predication in Trinitarian theology.