Isidore of Seville: De Ecclesiasticis Officiis

by Isidore of Seville

Publisher:

Newman Press

, 2008

Overview

This is the first complete English translation of De Ecclesiasticis Officiis of St. Isidore of Seville (d. 636), considered the last Latin Father of the Church. The work is an invaluable source of information about liturgical practice and church offices.

Key Features

• The finest writing from a giant of Christian spirituality
• Fully integrates and cross references with other resources from your Logos library
• A primary source that is useful for research and historical study of ancient and early medieval Christian thought

Contents

Top Highlights

“In fact, the wife is to be taught by the example of continence of the husband, so that she may conduct herself chastely. For it is evil that you do that which you are not able to grant; for the man is head of the wife [Eph 5:23]. When the woman lives better than the man, however, the house hangs down from the top. Therefore the man ought to surpass his wife in all good things, for he is the head, so that she may imitate the man and truly follow, as the body follows its head, just as the church follows Christ.” (Page 101)

“But the one who has promised in his heart, if he does otherwise, as the same apostle says: ‘and so they incur condemnation for having violated their first pledge’ [1 Tim 5:12]. For what was lawful through nature, he made unlawful for himself through a vow, just as it was in no way lawful that Ananias and Sapphira retain anything from the worth of their possessions; on account of which they were struck down by instant death.” (Pages 93–94)

“Thus, the tears of penitents are calculated before God the same as baptism.” (Page 91)

Product Details

• Title: Isidore of Seville: De Ecclesiasticis Officiis
• Author: Isidore of Seville
• Translator: Thomas L. Knoebel
• Series: Ancient Christian Writers
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 133
• Christian Group: Catholic
• Resource Type: Ancient Texts
• Topic: Theology

About Isidore of Seville

Saint Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 4 April 636) served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, “le dernier savant du monde ancien” (“the last scholar of the ancient world”). Indeed, all the later medieval history-writing of Hispania was based on his histories.