Lactantius: Divine Institutes
Bowen, Anthony / Garnsey, Peter / Bowen, Anthony
The Divine Institutes of Lactantius was a vigorous riposte to the pagan criticism and persecution of Christianity that came to a head under the Roman emperor Diocletian in the early fourth century A.D. Lactantius was also concerned, however, to put forward, for the benefit of educated pagans (such as he had earlier been), the Christian position on the nature of God and man, the history of religion on earth, the beginning and end of the world, ...