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.
401–500
3 works
c. 427–428
Latin
De Laude Eremi
Eucherius of Lyons · c. 380 – c. 449
A letter to Hilary of Arles arguing that the wilderness is not empty but furnished — God met Moses in it, fed Israel in it, and sent his own Son into it — and that the island monasteries of Lérins are its western equivalent.
c. 470
Latin
De Gratia
Faustus of Riez · c. 405 – c. 490
A monk of Lérins turned bishop argues against absolute predestination on one side and against Pelagius on the other: grace is necessary throughout, but the will makes a real beginning, and God's foreknowledge is not God's decree.
c. 480–495
Latin
De Viris Illustribus
Gennadius of Massilia · d. c. 496
A continuation of Jerome's catalogue, adding about a hundred writers of the intervening century with a line or two on each and a verdict. Gennadius is a Gaul of the Lérins school, so Faustus is praised and Augustine handled coolly.
3 of 1774 works