`It is the revised version of a doctoral thesis presented at
Edinburgh in 1985, and as the first monograph on Arnobius in
English marks a watershed in the study of the author. ... The
many-faceted erudition of Dr Simmons will be a substantial help to
those who hope to sharpen appreciation of Arnobius' arguments, and
of the complicated controversies which surrounded the Great
Persecution and the Ruse of Constantine. ... this is a bahnbrechend
study of a
difficult author.'
Oliver Nicholson, Journal of Theological Studies
`The first major study of Arnobius of Sicca.'
Theology Digest
`Interesting and well researched book...the book is meticulously
argued and carefully documented. Appropriate for research libraries
and for specialists in Latin patristics.'
Religious Studies Review
`Simmons is thoroughly persuasive; he has found more extensive
signs of Porphyrian influence than his predecessors, whose work he
generously credits, and his book will put Arnobian scholarship on
sounder footing.'
Church History
`This work will repay the reader by illustrating the fascination
and complexity of the social. political. religious and intellectual
background against which Christianity was developing at this
time.'
The Glastonbury Review
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