… Novatian, a Roman presbyter (Cyprian, Epistles 30, 32, 55; Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 4.43.13) who lived during the time of the Decian persecution (249-250). He had enjoyed a reputation as a leading theologian (already having written a significant work, On the Trinity) and during the time of persecution, when Pope Fabian was martyred, he assumed a strong leadership of the presbyters, … (J. A. McGuickin, The Westminster Handbook to Patristic Theology (Louisville KY and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004) 240. See also J. Quasten, Patrology, vol. 2 (Notre Dame IN: Christian Classics, 1983) 213-233.)
Works
- COLLECTED WORKS
- CCL 4 (ed. G.F. Diercks; 1972).
- [Clavis 68] De cibis iudaicis
- Edition: Novatians epistula de cibis iudaicis, Archiv für lateinische Lexikographie und Grammatik. 2 Heft XI Jahrgang (eds. G. Landgraf and C. Weymann; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1898) 221-249.
- Translation: Jewish Foods, Fathers of the Church 67 (trans. R.J. DeSimone; 1974).
- [Clavis 69] De bono pudicitiae
- Translation: In Praise of Purity, Fathers of the Church 67 (trans. R.J. DeSimone; 1974).
- [Clavis 70] De spectaculis
- Edition: Tertullien, De spectaculis: suivi de Pseudo-Cyprien, De spectaculis, Publications de la Faculté des lettres de l’Université de Strasbourg. Textes d’étude 1 (ed. A. Boulanger; Paris: Société d’édition Les Belles lettres, 1933).
- Translation: The Spectacles, Fathers of the Church 67 (trans. R.J. DeSimone; 1974).
- [Clavis 71] De Trinitate
- Editions: De Trinitate: über den dreifaltigen Gott, Testimonia: Schriften der altchristlichen Zeit 2 (ed. H. Weyer; Düsseldorf: Patmos, 1962). — Novatianus: La Trinità, Corona Patrum 2 (ed. V. Loi; Torino: Società editrice internazionale, 1975).
- Translations: The Treatise of Novatian on the Trinity, Translations of Christian literature, Series 2: Latin Texts (trans. H. Moore; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1919). — Weyer, above. — The Trinity, Fathers of the Church 67 (trans. R.J. DeSimone; 1974). — Loi, above.
- [Clavis 72] Epistula 30 inter opera S. Cypriani
- Edition: CSEL 3/2 (ed. W. Hartel; 1871) 549-556.
- Translation: Letters, Fathers of the Church 67 (trans. R.J. DeSimone; 1974).
- [Clavis 73] Epistula 31 inter opera S. Cypriani
- Edition: CSEL 3/2 (ed. W. Hartel; 1871) 557-564.
- Translation: Letters, Fathers of the Church 67 (trans. R.J. DeSimone; 1974).
- [Clavis 74] Epistula 36 inter opera S. Cypriani
- Edition: CSEL 3/2 (ed. W. Hartel; 1871) 572-579.
- Translation: Letters, Fathers of the Church 67 (trans. R.J. DeSimone; 1974).
- [Clavis 75] Aduersus Iudaeos Spuria.
- [Clavis 76] Ad Nouatianum Appendix.
Secondary references
- H.J. Vogt, Coetus sanctorum: der Kirchenbegriff des Novatian und die Geschichte seiner Sonderkirche, Theophaneia: Beiträge zur Religions- und Kirchengeschichte des Altertums 20 (Bonn: P. Hanstein, 1968).
- R.J. DeSimone, The Treatise of Novatian, the Roman Presbyter on the Trinity: A Study of the Text and the Doctrine, Studia Ephemeridis “Augustinianum” 4 (Roma: Institutum patristicum Augustinianum, 1970).
- D.F. Kelly, ‘The Beneficial Influence of Stoic Logic and Epistemology on Early Christian Theology: With Particular Reference to Novatian of Rome’, Sprache und Erkenntnis im Mittelalter 2 (Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1981) 817-825.
- J.S. Alexander, ‘Novatian/ Novatianer’, Theologische Realenzyklopädie 24 (1994) 678-682.
- Michael von Albrecht, A History of Roman Literature, 2 (New York: Brill, 1996) 1581-1584.
- CETEDOC (ed.), Thesaurus Novatiani, Corpus Christianorum: Thesaurus patrum Latinorum, ser. A (Turnhout: Brepols, 1999). [Microfiches in pocket].
Online resources
- John Chapman, ‘Novatian and Novatianism’, The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 11 (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911).
- Dr. Jim Papandrea’s Novatian of Rome and the Culmination of Pre-Nicene Orthodoxy, Princeton theological monograph series 175 (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011) Website: Linked to his translation of De trinitate in pdf format.
- ‘Novatianus and Novatianism’, in: Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D. (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)