Comparative Religious Ethics in the Service of Historical Interpretation: Ambrose's Use of Cicero

Ambrose's use of Cicero's "De Officiis" as a model for his own "De Officiis Ministrorum" is an elaborate illustration of how a Christian moralist found it both desirable to adopt and necessary to modify major traditions of Stoic ethics. Ambrose found both the organisati...

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Main Author: Gaffney, James (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1981
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1981, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-47
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