The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004077737).

The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004077737).

This book is a general and systematic study of the genre of dialogue in antiquity, investigating why dialogue matters.

It has become a commonplace to say that the Latin Fathers did not really hold a doctrine of deification. Indeed, it is often asserted that Western theologians have neglected this teaching, that their occasional references to it are borrowed from the Greeks, and that the Latins have generally reduced the rich biblical and Greek Patristic understanding of salvation to a narrow view of redemption. The essays in this volume challenge this common interpretation by exploring, often for the first time, the role this doctrine plays in a range of Latin Patristic authors.