The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
101–200
1 work
c. 180; attribution debated
Greek
Athenagoras of Athens
A philosophical defence of bodily resurrection, arguing from the nature of the human being as a composite of soul and body that judgement of one without the other would be incoherent.
201–300
1 work
c. 210
Latin
De Anima
Tertullian · c. 155–c. 220
A long enquiry into what the soul is, where it comes from, and what happens to it at death, drawing on medicine, philosophy, dreams, and the testimony of a woman in his own congregation who saw souls.
301–400
2 works
379
Greek
De Hominis Opificio
Gregory of Nyssa · c. 335–c. 395
Written to complete his brother Basil's work on the six days, on what it means that humanity is made in the image of God, and on the relation of body, soul, and sexual difference.
c. 390–400
Greek
Nemesius of Emesa
A Christian synthesis of Greek medicine and philosophy on body and soul, sensation, imagination, memory, and the will, drawing on Galen throughout.
1301–1400
1 work
c. 1349–1350
Greek
Gregory Palamas · 1296–1359
A compressed summary of his whole theology — cosmology, the human person as image, the distinction of essence and energies — in short numbered chapters.
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