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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| De Ira Dei canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De Ira Dei Context triple: [Lactantius, notableWork, De Ira Dei]
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A.
Dei Filius
Dei Filius is a dogmatic constitution of the Catholic Church from the First Vatican Council that defines key teachings on faith, reason, and divine revelation.
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B.
Inter Mirifica
Inter Mirifica is a decree of the Second Vatican Council that addresses the role, responsibilities, and moral use of social communications media in the life of the Church and society.
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C.
Sublimis Deus
Sublimis Deus is a 1537 papal bull by Pope Paul III that declared the indigenous peoples of the Americas to be rational humans with souls who must not be enslaved.
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D.
Ditat Deus
Ditat Deus is the Latin state motto of Arizona, meaning "God enriches" or "God gives wealth."
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E.
Pastor aeternus
Pastor aeternus is the 1870 dogmatic constitution of the First Vatican Council that definitively articulated the doctrine of papal primacy and infallibility in the Roman Catholic Church.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De Ira Dei Target entity description: 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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A.
Dei Filius
Dei Filius is a dogmatic constitution of the Catholic Church from the First Vatican Council that defines key teachings on faith, reason, and divine revelation.
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B.
Inter Mirifica
Inter Mirifica is a decree of the Second Vatican Council that addresses the role, responsibilities, and moral use of social communications media in the life of the Church and society.
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C.
Sublimis Deus
Sublimis Deus is a 1537 papal bull by Pope Paul III that declared the indigenous peoples of the Americas to be rational humans with souls who must not be enslaved.
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D.
Ditat Deus
Ditat Deus is the Latin state motto of Arizona, meaning "God enriches" or "God gives wealth."
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E.
Pastor aeternus
Pastor aeternus is the 1870 dogmatic constitution of the First Vatican Council that definitively articulated the doctrine of papal primacy and infallibility in the Roman Catholic Church.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| 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 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Christian apologetics
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Church Fathers ⓘ
surface form:
Latin Church Fathers
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| author | Lactantius ⓘ |
| circulation | medieval Christian theological tradition ⓘ |
| 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 ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Latin philosophical tradition
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classical Roman rhetoric ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose treatise ⓘ |
| 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 ⓘ |
| period | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Christianity ⓘ |
| setting | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| 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 |
The Wrath of God
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surface form:
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 ⓘ |
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