Epistolarity, commentary, and profession of faith: reading marius victorinus's fictional exchange with candidus in the context of his conversion

Lossl, Josef ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5829-6500 2022. Epistolarity, commentary, and profession of faith: reading marius victorinus's fictional exchange with candidus in the context of his conversion. Cooper, S.A. and Nemec, V, eds. The Philosophy, Theology, and Rhetoric of Marius Victorinus, Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplements, vol. 20. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, pp. 237-266.

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Abstract

This book chapter focusses on the (probably) fictional correspondence between Marius Victorinus and (the otherwise unknown) Candidus, which is extant in Marius Victorinus's works "Ad Candidum" and "Adversus Arium" 1A. It discusses the question why this exchange of letters is probably fictional, the epistolarity of the two works (which often goes unnoticed in scholarship), the relationship between the genres of "letter" and "commentary", and Marius Victorinus's conversion from a late-antique form of pagan Hermetism to Orthodox Christianity. The chapter argues that Victorinus's literary intervention in the fourth century Trinitarian debate strongly reflects his pre-conversion interests in Gnostic, Hermetic, and Neoplatonist ideas, and that the "Confession of Faith" cited in "Adversus Arium" 1A.47 may well be the public confession of faith mention by Augustine in "Confessions" 8.2.5.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology
Publisher:	SBL Press
ISBN:	9781628375275
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2022 13:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/153579

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