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The earliest language of the Christian Church was koine Greek, which was the language of the Eastern Roman empire in the 1st century AD. However, as Christianity spread through other parts of the Roman empire where Latin was used, a growing body of Latin literature was produced.
The CSEL publishes Latin writings of Christian authors from the time of the late 2nd century until the beginning of the 8th century (Bede the Venerable, †735).Each text is edited on the basis of all (or the most important of all) the extant manuscripts according to modern editorial techniques, in order to produce a text as close as possible to the original.
His History of Christianity to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire [6] (1840) had been completely ignored; but the continuation of his major work, the History of Latin Christianity [7] (1855), which has passed through many editions, was well received.
An 1842 edition of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History. The Ecclesiastical History (Ancient Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ Ἱστορία, Ekklēsiastikḕ Historía; Latin: Historia Ecclesiastica), also known as The History of the Church and Church History, is a 4th-century chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century, composed by ...
Tertullian was the first theologian to write in Latin, and so has been called "the father of Latin Christianity", [5] [6] as well as "the founder of Western theology". [7] He is perhaps most famous for being the first writer in Latin known to use the term trinity (Latin: trinitas). [8]
The use of Latin in the Church started in the late fourth century [6] with the split of the Roman Empire after Emperor Theodosius in 395. Before this split, Greek was the primary language of the Church (the New Testament was written in Greek and the Septuagint – a Greek translation of the Hebrew bible – was in widespread use among both Christians and Hellenized Jews) as well as the ...