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Boethius: The Theological Tractates and the Consolation of Philosophy is unavailable, but you can change that!

During his brief life of forty-four years, Boethius authored and translated numerous important works and treatises on the Christian faith. Considered by Stewart and Rand to be “the last of the Roman philosophers and the first of the scholastic theologians,” an imprisoned Boethius penned The Consolation of Philosophy, his best known work, before being executed in 524 A. D. This volume contains the...

between Nature and Person, that is, οὐσία and ὑπόστασις. The exact terms which should be applied in each case must be left to the decision of ecclesiastical usage. For the time being let that distinction between Nature and Person hold which I have affirmed, viz. that Nature is the specific property of any substance, and Person the individual substance of a rational nature. Nestorius affirmed that in Christ Person was twofold, being led astray by the false notion that Person may be applied to
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