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200–300 AD
← Back to All Books 200–300 AD From 200 to 300 AD, religious, philosophical, and historical writers deepened reflection on conscience, truth, spiritual freedom, and the dignity of the human person. Hippolytus, Origen, Cyprian, and Eastern Christian liturgical traditions explored faith, moral discipline, and the freedom of the soul before God. Sextus Empiricus challenged dogmatism through skepticism. Plotinus, author
Browse all periods1868 (MacMahon trans.)
The Refutation of All Heresies
Hippolytus of Rome
1953 (Chadwick trans.)Contra Celsum
Origen
1957 (Lawson trans.)The Song of Songs: Commentary and Homilies
Origen
1952The Hymns of the Hirmologium
Orthodox Eastern Church
1957The Akathistos Hymn
Orthodox Eastern Church
1839 (Parker trans.)The Treatises of St. Caecilius Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage and Martyr
Cyprian of Carthage
1933–1949 (Bury trans., Loeb)Sextus Empiricus
Sextus Empiricus
1916 (MacKenna trans.)The Ethical Treatises
Plotinus
MacKenna trans., Page rev.The Enneads
Plotinus
1960Les Sources de Plotin: Dix exposés et discussions
E. R. Dodds (ed.)
1948 (MacKenna trans.)The Essence of Plotinus
Plotinus
1942The Evolution of Buddhist Architecture in Japan
Alexander Coburn Soper
1952 (Fang trans.)The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms (220–265)
Ssu-ma Kuang
1959 (Brewitt-Taylor trans.)Romance of the Three Kingdoms (San Kuo Chih Yen-I)
Lo Kuan-chung
1949 (Lake trans., Loeb)The Ecclesiastical History
Eusebius of Caesarea