De Ira Dei
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De Ira Dei is a Christian theological treatise by Lactantius that defends and explains the concept of God's wrath against human sin and injustice.
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| instanceOf |
Christian theological treatise
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Latin prose work → patristic text → |
| addressesAudience |
Christian intellectuals
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educated pagan readers → |
| affirmsView |
God is personally involved in human affairs
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God punishes injustice → God rewards virtue → divine anger is an aspect of divine justice → divine anger is rational, not capricious → |
| approximateDate |
early 4th century
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| associatedWith |
Christian apologetics
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Latin Church Fathers → |
| author |
Lactantius
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| circulation |
medieval Christian theological tradition
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| defendsDoctrine |
compatibility of divine wrath with divine goodness
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moral governance of the world by God → reality of God’s wrath → |
| discussesConcept |
divine impassibility
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human free will → relationship between mercy and justice in God → temporal vs eternal punishment → |
| genre |
theological apologetic
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| influencedBy |
Latin philosophical tradition
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classical Roman rhetoric → |
| language |
Latin
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| literaryForm |
prose treatise
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| opposesView |
Epicurean view of a detached God
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Stoic denial of divine passions → philosophical claim that a perfect God cannot be angry → |
| partOfCorpus |
works of Lactantius
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| period |
Late Antiquity
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| religiousTradition |
Christianity
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| setting |
Roman Empire
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| theologicalTheme |
divine justice
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divine providence → divine wrath → human sin → moral order of the universe → nature of God → problem of evil → retribution → |
| titleTranslation |
On the Wrath of God
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| usedIn |
debates on the nature of God’s emotions
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historical studies of early Christian theology → |
Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Lactantius
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