Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Classical theories of friendship
- 3 Some problems of Christian friendship
- 4 Friendship in the lives and thought of Basil and of Gregory of Nazianzus
- 5 John Chrysostom and Olympias
- 6 Synesius of Cyrene
- 7 Ambrose of Milan – Ciceronian or Christian friendship?
- 8 St Jerome
- 9 Paulinus of Nola
- 10 Monasticism and friendship
- 11 St Augustine
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Editions and translations of primary sources
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Classical theories of friendship
- 3 Some problems of Christian friendship
- 4 Friendship in the lives and thought of Basil and of Gregory of Nazianzus
- 5 John Chrysostom and Olympias
- 6 Synesius of Cyrene
- 7 Ambrose of Milan – Ciceronian or Christian friendship?
- 8 St Jerome
- 9 Paulinus of Nola
- 10 Monasticism and friendship
- 11 St Augustine
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Editions and translations of primary sources
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Information
- Christian Friendship in the Fourth Century , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992