The Scriptorium · translations
| Work | Author | Passages | Words | Commentary | Status |
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| polemic/apologetic20 works | |||||
001 Ad Theophilum adversus Apollinaristas is a polemical treatise by Gregory of Nyssa, written in Greek, defending the full humanity of Christ’s rational soul against Apolli… | Gregory of Nyssa | 8 | 2,000 | 48 8 kinds | machine-draft |
002 Adversus Arium et Sabellium de patre et filio is a polemical treatise by Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335–c. 395) defending Nicene orthodoxy against Arian subordinationism and S… | Gregory of Nyssa | 18 | 5,237 | 107 9 kinds | machine-draft |
003 Adversus catharos is a polemical work attributed to John Chrysostom, targeting the Novatianist Christian sect. Surviving only in a single medieval manuscript tradition w… | John Chrysostom | 5 | 1,243 | 28 9 kinds | machine-draft |
004 Gregory of Nyssa's 'Adversus eos qui castigationes aegre ferunt' is a polemical treatise defending ascetic discipline against those who resent its rigors. The work emplo… | Gregory of Nyssa | 9 | 2,490 | 53 8 kinds | machine-draft |
005 Adversus eos qui non adfuerant is a letter by John Chrysostom addressed to bishops who were absent from the Synod of the Oak (AD 403). Composed shortly after the synod,… | John Chrysostom | 16 | 4,424 | 95 8 kinds | machine-draft |
006 Contra fornicarios is a short ascetic-polemical work attributed to Gregory of Nyssa (d. c. 395 CE), arguing against fornication. The treatise employs military metaphors,… | Gregory of Nyssa | 7 | 1,709 | 40 8 kinds | machine-draft |
007 Contra haereticos is a Greek polemical work traditionally attributed to John Chrysostom, surviving in a single medieval manuscript with lacunae in the final chapters. Th… | John Chrysostom | 6 | 1,702 | 36 8 kinds | machine-draft |
008 This treatise by John Chrysostom, traditionally dated to his Antiochene presbyterate (386–397), is a polemical work targeting Jews, pagans ("Greeks"), and heretics. The… | John Chrysostom | 13 | 3,697 | 78 8 kinds | machine-draft |
009 Cyril of Alexandria's 'Contra Julianum imperatorem' is a Greek polemic/apologetic work composed around the 430s CE, responding to Emperor Julian's 'Contra Galilaeos' (c.… | Cyril of Alexandria | 4 | 1,032 | 23 7 kinds | machine-draft |
010 John Chrysostom's 'Contra ludos et theatra' is a Greek polemic homily condemning theatrical shows and games, likely delivered in Antioch between 386 and 397. The text su… | John Chrysostom | 11 | 3,127 | 65 8 kinds | machine-draft |
011 The Contra Sabellianos is a Greek polemical treatise traditionally attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 296–373), but its dating and authenticity are debated, with… | Athanasius the Great of Alexandria | 22 | 5,940 | 130 8 kinds | machine-draft |
012 This polemical treatise, attributed to Basil of Caesarea, targets three distinct fourth-century Christological heresies: Sabellianism (modalism), Arianism, and Anomoeani… | Basilius Caesariensis | 15 | 4,262 | 90 8 kinds | machine-draft |
013 The Contra Severianos is a polemical treatise attributed to John of Damascus (c. 675–749), targeting the Christology of Severus of Antioch and his miaphysite followers.… | John of Damascus | 3 | 566 | 16 7 kinds | machine-draft |
014 Gregory of Nyssa's sermon against usury, likely delivered during the Cappadocian famine of 368–369, is a polemical homily that condemns the practice of lending at intere… | Gregory of Nyssa | 15 | 3,729 | 90 8 kinds | machine-draft |
015 Eustathius of Antioch's 'De anima contra Arianos' is a polemical treatise defending the full humanity of Christ against Arian subordinationism, likely composed between 3… | Eustathius Antiochiensis | 2 | 565 | 12 7 kinds | machine-draft |
016 De anima contra philosophos is a fragmentary polemic by Eustathius of Antioch (fl. c. 325–360) that attacks Greek philosophical doctrines of the soul, particularly Plato… | Eustathius Antiochiensis | 2 | 568 | 12 8 kinds | machine-draft |
017 De deitate adversus Evagrium is a late fourth-century Greek polemical treatise by Gregory of Nyssa, directed against a subordinationist Christology associated with an ad… | Gregory of Nyssa | 11 | 2,525 | 66 8 kinds | machine-draft |
018 De fide contra Nestorianos is a Greek polemical treatise attributed to John of Damascus (c. 675–749), likely composed in the early 8th century amid the Monothelite contr… | John of Damascus | 23 | 5,875 | 135 8 kinds | machine-draft |
019 Theodoret of Cyrus's 'Libellus contra Nestorium ad Sporacium' is a Greek polemical treatise defending the unity of Christ's person against Nestorius. Addressed to the la… | Theodoretus of Cyrrhus | 10 | 2,552 | 60 8 kinds | machine-draft |
020 The Refutatio Procli is a polemical work by Procopius of Gaza (ca. 465–528 AD) that critiques Proclus’ Neoplatonic theology from a Christian perspective. Written in rhet… | Procopius of Gaza | 2 | 514 | 12 7 kinds | machine-draft |